Staff Product Designer, Algolia

• 5+ years of experience as a Product Designer, Growth Designer, or similar role in Developer Tooling / B2B SaaS
• Experience designing for developer-facing products or highly technical audiences
• Demonstrated experience designing for growth across the full lifecycle: onboarding, activation, engagement, and expansion
• Comfort working in data-informed environments, using metrics like activation, conversion, retention, or feature adoption to guide decisions
• Experience collaborating in experiment-driven teams, including A/B testing and iterative rollout
• Strong interaction and UX design skills, with fluency in Figma and modern design workflows
• Light design-engineering or prototyping fluency (e.g. interactive prototypes, experimentation tools, or basic front-end awareness)
• Ability to work effectively with cross-functional partners across product, engineering, data, and marketing
• A pragmatic, outcome-oriented mindset focused on learning, iteration, and measurable impact
• Familiarity with product-led growth models, freemium or usage-based pricing, or self-serve SaaS

Desirable

• We’re looking for a Growth Designer to work end to end across the user lifecycle, partnering closely with Product Managers,Engineers, and Marketers across multiple Growth squads
• This role blends strong product design craft with experimentation, data-informed decision-making, and lightweight design-engineering fluency to help teams move quickly from insight to impact
• You’ll focus on solving real user problems while driving measurable business outcomes, designing experiences that make Algolia easier to adopt, more intuitive to grow with, and more compelling to return to
• This role sits within the Product Design team, embedded directly in 2–3 Growth squads. Algolia is a remote-first, globally distributed company, and our design organisation partners closely with Product, Engineering, Data, and Marketing to deliver thoughtful, developer-centric experiences
• As a Growth Designer, you’ll have deep ownership within your squads while staying connected to the broader design team for craft, critique, and design system collaboration
• Design and optimise end-to-end growth experiences across onboarding, activation, engagement, and expansion
• Identify friction points and opportunities across key funnels using both qualitative research and quantitative data
• Collaborate with PMs, engineers, and data partners to define growth hypotheses and translate them into experiments and shipped experiences
• Support experiment-driven development through rapid iteration, prototyping, and lightweight validation
• Contribute to and evolve Algolia’s design system, especially as it relates to scalable growth patterns and lifecycle experiences
• Balance speed, quality, and impact, moving quickly without compromising usability or clarity
• Advocate for user needs while aligning design decisions with growth and business objectives