# Tom Bennet

Product manager in London, working on growth at Synthesia. Before that I was at Lightyear, Wise and Builtvisible. I also run a website about carnivorous plants.

- [GitHub](https://github.com/tombennet)
- [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/tombennet/)
- [Email](mailto:hello@tombennet.dev)

## Work

### [Synthesia](https://synthesia.io)

- Product Manager, Growth (Nov 2025 – now)

### [Lightyear](https://lightyear.com)

- Product Lead, Discovery (Jul 2024 – Oct 2025)
- Product Manager, SEO (Sep 2023 – Jun 2024)

### [Wise](https://wise.com)

- Product Manager, Marketing Platform (Jan 2021 – Aug 2023)
- Senior SEO Specialist (Feb 2020 – Dec 2020)

### [Builtvisible](https://builtvisible.com)

- Head of Product Dev (Nov 2016 – Jan 2020)
- Senior SEO Consultant (Apr 2015 – Oct 2016)
- SEO Consultant (Nov 2012 – Mar 2015)

### [Alium Medical](https://aliummedical.com)

- Management Trainee (Sep 2011 – Sep 2012)

## Projects

- [Tom's Carnivores](https://tomscarnivores.com): Guides and tools for growing carnivorous plants, built and grown since 2017.

## Writing

- [Lessons from an AI-assisted migration to Astro](https://tombennet.dev/blog/lessons-from-ai-assisted-migration-to-astro) (24 Feb 2025): An honest look at using AI to migrate a website from Hugo to Astro. What worked, what didn't, and the surprising lessons learned along the way.