Job description
Algolia helps businesses and developers understand their online users and show them exactly what they need. As a leader in AI search and discovery, we power over 1.8 trillion searches a year – four times more than Microsoft Bing, Yahoo, Baidu, Yandex and DuckDuckGo combined - for more than 17,000 customers from 100+ countries.
The Mission
Your product mission is to assist Algolia’s business users with proactive suggestions, smart tools and automation capabilities to optimize their search and discovery curation strategies and reduce their workload. You will build a deep understanding of the needs and workflows of Algolia’s business users - e.g. merchandisers, content editors or marketers - and equip them with assistive, AI-driven tools to automate and optimize their efforts.
The Opportunity
As a Staff Product Manager at Algolia for our AI Assist team you will be tasked with building our AI Agent and chatbot experience from 0-1 and beyond. You will own the long-term product vision, set the strategic direction for a portfolio of AI-powered search and discovery products, and influence decision-making across multiple teams and functions. You will be the connective tissue between market needs, customer outcomes, and engineering excellence championing an experimentation culture that delivers scalable, high-impact solutions for our enterprise customers.
What You’ll Do
Strategic Leadership & Vision
- Define and socialise a long term product strategy that aligns with Algolia’s company objectives and customer needs.
- Translate abstract problems into a cohesive roadmap; influence investment choices that unlock long-term innovation.
- Leverage deep market and competitive insights to identify new growth vectors, partnerships, and ecosystem opportunities.
- Serve as product portfolio owner balancing feature development, architectural improvements, and operational priorities.
- Embed Algolia’s values (GRIT, TRUST, CANDOR, CARE, HUMILITY) into team culture and decision-making across organisations.
Execution & Delivery
- Drive end-to-end product lifecycle: discovery, definition, delivery, and iteration—owning outcomes, not just output.
- Shape and refine agile processes, ensuring operational excellence, technical scalability, and measurable business impact.
- Lead cross-functional “test-and-learn” initiatives; use data to validate hypotheses and optimise for adoption, retention, and revenue.
- Deliver clear, data-driven updates to executives and stakeholders; present at QBRs, annual planning, and company-wide forums.
- Mentor and coach PMs and cross-functional peers; remove yourself as a single point of failure by empowering others.
What We’re Looking For
- 10+ years in product management with 5+ years leading B2B SaaS products; at least two product families taken from concept to scale.
- Proven ownership of a multi-year product strategy and roadmap that delivered step-change customer and business value.
- Demonstrated influence across engineering, design, go-to-market, and executive leadership able to align disparate teams around a shared vision.
- Track record of shipping AI-driven products (generative AI, ML-powered automation, or similar) and continuously improving them through experimentation.
- Advanced analytical skills; comfortable using metrics, cohort analysis, and financial modelling to manage the business “by the numbers.”
- Technical fluency working knowledge of modern architectures, APIs, and AI/ML workflows; able to engage deeply with engineers on trade-offs.
- Exceptional communication: distils complex ideas into crisp narratives; drives actionable decisions in both small forums and large executive reviews.
- Leadership & coaching: uplifts team performance, sets clear goals, and cultivates an inclusive, innovative culture.
What Would Make You Stand Out
- Expertise in search, recommendation engines, or relevant AI/ML platforms.
- Hands-on track record of designing workflow-automation tools that materially increase end-user productivity.
- Domain knowledge in eCommerce or Media ecosystems or clear, demonstrated ability to ramp up quickly.
How We Work
We live our values every day:
GRIT – We persevere, solve hard problems, and inspire others to do the same.
TRUST – We take ownership and hold ourselves accountable.
CANDOR – We communicate transparently and welcome constructive feedback.
CARE – We prioritise people—our customers, our colleagues, our community.
HUMILITY – We learn continuously and celebrate collective success.
Join us to shape the next generation of Algolia products and leave a lasting impact on how businesses and users discover information.
FLEXIBLE WORKPLACE STRATEGY:
Algolia’s flexible workplace model is designed to empower all Algolians to fulfill our mission to power search and discovery with ease. We place an emphasis on an individual’s impact, contribution, and output, over their physical location. Algolia is a high-trust environment and many of our team members have the autonomy to choose where they want to work and when.
While we have a global presence with physical offices in Paris, NYC, London, Sydney and Bucharest, we also offer many of our team members the option to work remotely either as fully remote or hybrid-remote employees. Please note that positions listed as “Remote” are only available for remote work within the specified country. Positions listed within a specific city are only available in that location - depending on the nature of the role it may be available with either a hybrid-remote or in-office schedule.
ABOUT US:
Algolia prides itself on being a pioneer and market leader offering an AI Search solution that empowers 17,000+ businesses to compose customer experiences at internet scale that predict what their users want with blazing fast search and web browse experience. Algolia powers more than 30 billion search requests a week – four times more than Microsoft Bing, Yahoo, Baidu, Yandex and DuckDuckGo combined.
Algolia is part of a cadre of innovative new companies that are driving the next generation of software development, creating APIs that make developers’ lives easier; solutions that are better than building from scratch and better than having to tweak monolithic SaaS solutions.
In 2021, the company closed $150 million in series D funding and quadrupled its post-money valuation of $2.25 billion. Being well capitalized enables Algolia to continue to invest in its market leading platform, to better serve its thousands of customers–including Under Armor, Petsmart, Stripe, Gymshark, and Walgreens, to name just a few.
WHO WE’RE LOOKING FOR:
We’re looking for talented, passionate people to build the world’s best search & discovery technology. As an ownership-driven company, we seek team members who thrive within an environment based on autonomy and diversity. We’re committed to building an inclusive and diverse workplace. We care about each other and the world around us, and embrace talented people regardless of their race, age, ancestry, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, marital status, color, veteran status, disability and socioeconomic background.
READY TO APPLY?
If you share our values and our enthusiasm for building the world’s best search & discovery technology, we’d love to review your application!
