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.
