Senior Product Manager, AI Assist

At Algolia, we’re proud to be a pioneer and market leader in AI Search, empowering 17,000+ businesses to deliver blazing-fast, predictive search and browse experiences at internet scale. Every week, we power over 30 billion search requests — four times more than Microsoft Bing, Yahoo, Baidu, Yandex, and DuckDuckGo combined.

In 2021, we raised $150 million in Series D funding, quadrupling our valuation to $2.25 billion. This strong foundation enables us to keep investing in our market-leading platform and serving incredible customers like Under Armour, PetSmart, Stripe, Gymshark, and Walgreens.

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 Senior Product Manager at Algolia, you will be at the forefront of driving product strategy and execution. This role is critical in shaping our product offerings to meet market demands and exceed our customers’ expectations. You will collaborate with cross-functional departments to deliver impactful results and contribute to the overall success of the organisation.

What you’ll be doing:

• Drive product discovery to understand and define who for, why and what we’re building to deliver on the mission.
• Formulate, agree and communicate the strategy, vision, and roadmap with all key stakeholders.
• Whether it’s mocking up concepts, writing functional specs or drafting a copy – you’ll do whatever it takes to push your product throughout the end-to-end lifecycle, in collaboration with engineers, designers, other product managers and cross-functional collaborators.
• Shape agile processes and foster cross-functional team dynamics to deliver delightful, powerful products that exceed customer expectations and drive tangible business outcomes.
• Build and nurture an agile and innovative product culture within the team, founded on the importance of continuous, rapid prototyping and learning. 
• Use analytical and quantitative skills to understand usage, inform prioritization and report on progress.
• Understand the evolving competitive landscape and identify potential strategic partnerships for complementary product offerings.
• Collaborate with cross-functional partners (legal, marketing, sales, customer success) to successfully launch products, drive adoption, and optimize customer retention.

What We’re Looking For:

• Proven experience in building and launching AI-driven products, ideally generative AI or automation solutions that support business users’ workflows.
• B2B SaaS experience.
• Deep user empathy, ability to collaborate with product design to build best-in-class user experiences.
• Data-driven/informed, with a strong ability to leverage analytics to measure product success, prioritize features, and refine strategies based on customer insights.
• Proven track record in shipping and iterating on products within an agile software development environment.
• Strong cross-functional leadership and collaboration skills with engineering, design, product marketing, GTM sales, and customer support to help launch new products and support existing ones. 
• Ability to understand technical or complex business problems, craft effective strategies to tackle them, and present simple solutions to our customers.
• Outstanding written and verbal communication skills.

What would make you stand out:

• Expertise in search & recommendations engines, hands-on experience with AI/ML technologies. 
• Technical background, applied to industry and business problems.
• Proven experience in designing and implementing workflow automation solutions that empower business users and enhance productivity.
• Experience in or good understanding of eCommerce and/or media.
• If no prior experience: ability and willingness to learn about specific industry trends and ecosystems, most importantly eCommerce.

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. 

We have a global presence with offices in Paris, NYC, London, Sydney and Bucharest, however we also offer many of our team members the option to work remotely either as fully remote or hybrid-remote employees. 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 role it may be available with either a hybrid-remote or in-office schedule.

WE’RE LOOKING FOR SOMEONE WHO CAN LIVE OUR VALUES:

• GRIT – Problem-solving and perseverance capability in an ever-changing and growing environment.
• TRUST – Willingness to trust our co-workers and to take ownership.
• CANDOR – Ability to receive and give constructive feedback.
• CARE – Genuine care about other team members, our clients and the decisions we make in the company.
• HUMILITY – Aptitude for learning from others, putting ego aside.

We’re looking for talented, passionate people to help build the world’s best search and discovery technology. We value autonomy, diversity, and collaboration. We’re committed to creating an inclusive workplace where everyone is respected and supported—regardless of race, age, ancestry, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, marital status, color, veteran status, disability, or socioeconomic background.

PLEASE REVIEW OUR POLICY FOR AI USE IN INTERVIEWS – https://www.algolia.com/blog/algolia/algolia-ai-guidelines-for-candidates

IMPORTANT NOTICE FOR CANDIDATES – Recruitment Fraud Notice

We’ve recently seen an increase in recruitment scams targeting job seekers. To help protect yourself, please keep the following in mind:

• Our open positions may appear on third-party job boards, but the best way to apply safely is directly through our careers page.
• All genuine communication from Algolia will come from an @algolia.com email address. If you receive an email from someone claiming to work at Algolia who does not have an @algolia.com email address, please do not respond or share any personal information.
• We’ll never ask for payments, purchases, or financial details during the hiring process.

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!