Staff Product Manager - AI Search

About Algolia

Algolia is a fast-growing company that helps users deliver intuitive search and discovery experiences on their websites and mobile apps. We provide APIs used by thousands of customers in more than 100 countries. Today, Algolia powers 1.5 Trillion searches a year – that’s 4 times more than Bing, Yahoo, DuckDuckGo, Baidu and Yandex combined!

The Mission

Give developers & business users the tools to supercharge their implementation of Algolia and understand how well they are leveraging Algolia’s Search platform. We help customers make data driven decisions through advanced analytics and debugger tools. We build apps that extend our keyword search capabilities. Click here to learn more about products this team build. 

The Opportunity

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. 

The Team

The Search team is a remote-first, multicultural team that believes our diversity should match the world around us. We are looking for a Staff Product Manager who can execute the long-term vision for AI Search (https://www.algolia.com/products/ai-search/), with a key focus on Ranking and Reranking

As a Staff Product Manager on the AI  Search team:

• To begin with, you will play a pivotal role in creating goal-oriented Ranking capabilities that will play a central role in Algolia's future. 
• As we expand our AI Search capabilities, you will also be expected to contribute to the vision, plan, and execution, as well as expand your product scope across all AI Search Products.
• 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.

What you'll be doing:

• 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.

You might be a fit if you have:

• 10 years of experience in product management building developer first products.
• Experience mentoring PMs.
• Experience in building and launching AI 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 good understanding of the eCommerce industry trends and ecosystems  
• Nice-to-have familiarity with search engines and search technologies
• Nice-to-have familiarity with ML/AI 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.
• Preference for candidates with experience at our current stage and beyond (over 10,000 customers, $200-500M ARR range, high growth, lots of change and building internal infrastructure).

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.