Senior Product Manager - Digital Merchandising

About Algolia

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

The Mission

The Digital Merchandising group mission is to empower eCommerce companies to optimize their business metrics by personalizing and curating search and discovery experiences mapped to the shopper journey. 

The Opportunity

Algolia is the world’s only comprehensive search and discovery company, serving multiple verticals (eCommerce, SaaS, Media).
The Merchandising team is focused on Algolia’s main vertical: Digital Commerce. 

We strongly believe that a strong and performant merchandising strategy should be a combination of human and machine learning(e)Thus, our solution offers access to all modern merchandising capabilities (AI models, rules-engine, analytics, and more) in a unified user-friendly interface, allowing Business users to optimize the performances of their eCommerce store and personalize the shopper journey.

We have ambitious goals ahead of us, including building several new products on top of Algolia existing APIs and capabilities(e)We will become the “orchestrator” of eCommerce to unify all the digital merchandising interfaces and capabilities used by digital merchandising teams in the Composable Commerce space.

As Product Manager for the Digital Merchandising team:

• You will play a pivotal role in architecting and implementing new products, that will play a central role in the future of Algolia 
• You will be in the driver’s seat to innovate in the multi-billion dollar market eCommerce industry

What you'll be doing:

• Lead, define, and communicate the strategy, vision, and roadmap of the Digital Merchandising 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(e)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 :

• 5 years of experience in B2B product management
• 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(e)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.

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REMOTE STRATEGY:

Algolia’s workplace strategy, Hybrid Remote, is designed to harness the power of the opportunities that remote work offers both employees and the company, while also providing an engaging in-office experience for the times when an employee is in an office(e)Our workplace approach reflects the belief that an employee’s impact, contribution, and output are more important than their physical location.

The majority of employees will be able to choose if, and when, they come into an office on a regular basis(e)There will be times when our people are asked to come into an office for “moments that matter:” activities like critical planning meetings and team social gatherings.  Beyond those events, 80% of our workforce may choose the location from where they work in the country in which they were hired.

We have physical offices in San Francisco, NYC, Atlanta, Paris, London, Austin, and Bucharest(e)https://www.algolia.com/about/

ABOUT US:

Algolia prides itself on being a pioneer and market leader offering an AI-powered, API-First Search & Discovery platform that empowers 12,000+ businesses to compose customer experiences at internet scale that predict what their users want with blazing fast search and web browse experience(e)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(e)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. 

The team is headquartered in San Francisco with offices in Paris, London, New York, Austin, Atlanta, and Bucharest(e)To learn more, visit www.algolia.com.

WHO WE'RE LOOKING FOR:

We’re looking for talented, passionate people to build the world’s best search & discovery technology(e)As an ownership-driven company, we seek team members who thrive within an environment based on autonomy and diversity(e)We're committed to building an inclusive and diverse workplace(e)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!