Product Manager, Algolia
AI Search
Site search and discovery powered by AI
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Site search and discovery powered by AI
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
501-1000 employees
Company mission
Algolia's mission is to change the way people interact with data.
Role
Who you are
- 3+ years of experience in product management building developer first products
- Data analysis expertise
- Metric driven
- Demonstrated success in shipping and iterating on products within an agile software development environment
- An ability to work with engineering, design, product marketing, GTM sales, and customer support to help launch new products and support existing ones
- Ability to understand technical business problems, craft effective strategies to tackle them, and present simple solutions to our customers
- Outstanding written and verbal communication skills
- Nice-to-have familiarity with search engines and search technologies
- Experience writing code - for fun, college, or work - is a plus. We are looking for someone with a technical bent to communicate with our internal engineers and engineering management, as well as our engineering-focused customers
- 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 in the world
- 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
- You will own various products aimed at improving Understanding of the customer query
- You will run ideations and experiments to build new products that can improve the Query Understanding
- You will be in the driver’s seat to innovate in the multi-billion dollar market eCommerce industry
- Additionally, you will work cross-functionally with other teams creating delightful moments for our customers
- Lead, define, and communicate the strategy, vision, and roadmap of the NeuralSearch team with all key stakeholders
- Build processes and team dynamics to deliver APIs and user interfaces that satisfy the needs of our customers
- Mocking up concepts, writing functional specs, cutting tickets, writing copy, and doing whatever it takes to express your ideas. Collaborating with engineers, designers, and other product managers
- Build and nurture an agile and innovative product culture within the team, founded on the importance of continuous and rapid prototyping and learning
- Uses analytical and quantitative skills to manage the business ‘by the numbers’
- Understand the evolving competitive landscape and identify potential strategic partnerships for complementary product offerings
- Organize in-person customer research with companies, affinity groups, or representative users to gain end-to-end real-world
- Drive innovative ideas, solutions, and products through leadership and decisive action
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 futher its growth. As the company continues to scale it seems likely that an IPO is not too distant a prospect.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
33% female employees
-3% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Jul 2021
$150m
SERIES D
Oct 2019
$110m
SERIES C
Total funding: $334m
Company benefits
- Health Insurance
- Mental Health Care
- Accidental Death & Dismemberment Insurance
- Dental Insurance
- Disability Insurance
- Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
- Health Savings Account (HSA)
- Life Insurance
Company values
- Grit - We thrive outside of our comfort zone, pushing ourselves to go ever further. We think long-term and constantly strive to be better, even if things don't always go as expected
- Trust - We trust each other just as we trust our users. We earn that trust by listening to each other, following through with our commitments and keeping our words
- Care - We want the best for our customers, community & colleagues. We go above and beyond to make sure they are happy
- Candor - We are open and honest. We give each other praise and criticism because we want to challenge each other and help one another grow
- Humility - We want our teammates to succeed as much as we do ourselves. We believe each team member is as important as the other and we approach each new challenge knowing that we may not have all the answer
Company HQ
Barron Park, Palo Alto, CA
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Leadership
Bernadette Nixon
(CEO, not founder)Was previously CEO of Alfresco. Before that, was CRO at SDL and SVP & GM for OpenText
People progressing
Joined as an Account Executive. Promoted to Senior Account Executive after 1 year. They have been promoted to Director of Sales, Northern Europe.
Joined as an Enterprise Account Executive. Promoted to Director of Enterprise Sales after 2 years. Then promoted again to Head of Sales after 1 year. They are currently the Vice President of Sales for EMEA & APAC regions.
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