Director of Product Management, Algolia
AI Search
AI search solutions
Open for applications
AI search solutions
501-1000 employees
Open for applications
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To help businesses and developers understand their online users and show them exactly what they need.
Role
Who you are
- Proven experience in technical B2B product management, preferably in AI, search, or API-driven platforms
- Leadership experience managing and scaling product management teams
- A track record of successfully shipping and iterating on products in an agile development environment
- The ability to translate complex technical challenges into strategic business solutions
- Experience engaging with high-profile customers, including presenting roadmaps and gathering feedback
- Strong organisational skills, with the ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced startup environment
- Hands-on expertise with search engines, real-time APIs, and AI/ML-powered products
- 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
What the job involves
- The Search team at Algolia runs the world’s fastest and most relevant search engine
- We operate one platform that covers ALL retrieval methods - keyword, semantic, db, and others
- We eat, breathe, and sleep highly available and highly reliable services (4 9s is our minimum threshold)
- We build products that enable anyone to easily connect any data source and retrieve and collate content across multiple data sources
- We inform our customers how best to optimize their discovery engines through automation and products
- We run both the public cloud and our own bare metal because we demand the best performance
- And, we are just getting started
- Our AI Search team is a remote-first, multicultural group committed to innovation and inclusion
- We focus on three key areas of search: Understanding, Ranking, and Retrieval
- We are looking for a Product Leader to drive the long-term vision and execution of AI Search
- Define and communicate the strategy, vision, and roadmap for AI Search, working closely with the Executive Leadership Team
- Develop a deep understanding of customer needs, search trends, and emerging technologies to guide product direction
- Align closely with go-to-market teams to drive feature adoption and continuously refine our offerings based on customer feedback
- Partner with engineering and machine learning teams to develop technical product specifications and integrations
- Foster a culture of agility and innovation, promoting rapid prototyping and iterative learning
- Assess product development progress, identify enhancement opportunities, and ensure continuous improvement
- Manage budgets, forecasts, and key performance metrics
- Identify market trends, competitive positioning, and potential strategic partnerships
- Build and lead a world-class team of product managers
Salary benchmarks
Our take
While in-site searching has been available for some time from web search servers such as Google and Bing, its functionality is limited due to it relying on general web scraping techniques which can miss relevant information. By contrast Algolia indexes only the company's site, allowing its search to serve accurate results extremely swiftly, which helps to drive sales conversions aside from making sites far more usable. The efficacy of this solution can be seen from its customer base of over 10,000 companies including the likes of Slack, Zendesk and Lacoste.
To diversify and increase the product range, Algolia have expanded into other real-time APIs such as product recommendations available for eCommerce websites. With the company performing extremely well over the last few years, Algolia have recruited key senior executives to further its growth. As the company continues to scale it seems likely that an IPO is not too distant a prospect.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Jul 2021
$150m
SERIES D
Oct 2019
$110m
SERIES C
Total funding: $334m
Company HQ
Barron Park, Palo Alto, CA
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