Senior Manager, Product Management

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.

Lead and grow a portfolio of products that together form the foundation of Algolia’s next generation of data and ecosystem platforms:

• Data & Connector Platform : Empower every business to unlock the full potential of their product/catalog data by providing data loading, transformation, and enrichment services. Make enriched data a first-class asset for exceptional search and discovery experiences.
• Composition: Enable business users and external systems to tailor and orchestrate Algolia results using a flexible API and UI. Provide the tools to build composable, context-aware, curated experiences that blend algolia retrieval, external sources starting with retail media feeds.
• Ecosystem Experience : Ensure customers using external platforms (e.g., SFCC, Shopify, BigCommerce) can easily integrate and optimize Algolia to improve their performance, with tailored experiences that meet their specific needs.
• Alolgia assist : leverage our AI assistant to improve the user experience and make this tool accessible to every users

This is a senior product leadership role at the heart of Algolia’s strategy to unify data ingest > transform/enrich > retrieval/orchestration > business-user control. You will manage three experienced PMs, set direction across their areas, and ensure their work connects into a coherent, high-value portfolio. This portfolio directly impacts customer adoption, time-to-value, and differentiation in eCommerce and beyond.

What you'll be doing:

• Lead & Manage PMs: Hire, coach, and grow PM. Set goals, run performance cycles, and help them deliver outsized impact.
• Define Portfolio Strategy: Own vision, KPIs, and roadmaps across Data, Connector, Composition. Ensure the three areas reinforce each other and connect into Algolia’s broader AI Search & Agentic platform.
• Deliver Outcomes, not Features: Drive measurable improvements in customer adoption, onboarding time, conversion performance, and search relevance.
• Ecosystem & Partnerships: Work closely with GTM, PS, and partner teams on ecosystem integrations (e.g., Criteo, Zitcha, SFCC, Shopify, BigCommerce).
• Stakeholder Alignment: Operate crisp product rituals (roadmaps, PR/FAQs, CPRs, WBRs) that keep leadership, engineering, GTM, and customers aligned.

Role Requirements:

• People Leadership: 2+ years directly managing PMs with a track record of developing talent and raising the bar.
• Portfolio Ownership: Proven success running multiple product lines in parallel with dependencies and external partnerships.
• Developer-First Experience: Skilled in developer-first APIs/platforms as well as business-user workflows (commerce, content, media). Proven experience building and shipping developer-first products, tools, or APIs.
• Data & Connectors Depth: Strong understanding of ETL/ELT pipelines, data quality, governance, and extensibility models.
• Domain Experience: Background in eCommerce, content-heavy, or media use cases. Experience with platforms, partner integrations, or merchant-facing products (or equivalent).
• Strategic Communicator: Comfortable simplifying complexity, framing trade-offs, and aligning executives and cross-functional stakeholders.

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.

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FLEXIBLE WORKPLACE STRATEGY:

Algolia’s flexible workplace model is designed to empower all Algolians to fulfill our mission to power search and discovery with ease. We place an emphasis on an individual’s impact, contribution, and output, over their physical location. Algolia is a high-trust environment and many of our team members have the autonomy to choose where they want to work and when.

While we have a global presence with physical offices in Paris, NYC, London, Sydney and Bucharest, we also offer many of our team members the option to work remotely either as fully remote or hybrid-remote employees. Please note that positions listed as "Remote" are only available for remote work within the specified country. Positions listed within a specific city are only available in that location - depending on the nature of the role it may be available with either a hybrid-remote or in-office schedule.

ABOUT US:

Algolia prides itself on being a pioneer and market leader offering an AI Search solution that empowers 17,000+ businesses to compose customer experiences at internet scale that predict what their users want with blazing fast search and web browse experience. Algolia powers more than 30 billion search requests a week – four times more than Microsoft Bing, Yahoo, Baidu, Yandex and DuckDuckGo combined.

Algolia is part of a cadre of innovative new companies that are driving the next generation of software development, creating APIs that make developers’ lives easier; solutions that are better than building from scratch and better than having to tweak monolithic SaaS solutions.

In 2021, the company closed $150 million in series D funding and quadrupled its post-money valuation of $2.25 billion. Being well capitalized enables Algolia to continue to invest in its market leading platform, to better serve its thousands of customers–including Under Armor, Petsmart, Stripe, Gymshark, and Walgreens, to name just a few. 

WHO WE'RE LOOKING FOR:

We’re looking for talented, passionate people to build the world’s best search & discovery technology. As an ownership-driven company, we seek team members who thrive within an environment based on autonomy and diversity. We're committed to building an inclusive and diverse workplace. We care about each other and the world around us, and embrace talented people regardless of their race, age, ancestry, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, marital status, color, veteran status, disability and socioeconomic background.

READY TO APPLY?If you share our values and our enthusiasm for building the world’s best search & discovery technology, we’d love to review your application!