At Algolia, we are passionate about helping developers & product teams connect their users with what matters most in milliseconds!

On the R&D Team at Agolia, we believe that search and discovery are fundamental to the internet (and human) experience. We believe that empowering builders to create great solutions for their businesses is the key to improving online discovery experiences across the globe. We’ve already created a suite of products to empower people to build amazing search experiences, and we are now excited to explore how our technology can power new interfaces in more contexts.

As key members of the R&D Team at Algolia, we work closely with Product Managers to discover and develop the best products for Algolia. Our products serve a wide variety of users, from developers, to marketing managers, merchandisers, and end-users of search themselves. We work on a variety of projects, including: empowering developers with the tools they need to improve their search, defining best practices and patterns for end-users of search experiences, helping our customers make decisions based on their search data, and bringing the power of artificial intelligence to businesses. We also collaborate and partner closely with the Brand Design team to ensure we all build seamless end-to-end Algolia experiences for our users.

As the Director of Product Design & Research, you will take our practice to the next level! You will lead and develop a team of passionate and autonomous Product Designers and Researchers. You will work with your Product Management and Engineering counterparts to deliver incredible, user-centered search and discovery products.

YOUR ROLE WILL CONSIST OF:

• Design the org for scale and efficiency. You will help the Product Design and User Research teams scale, by creating the structure and processes to grow designers and researchers and ensure we have the right mix of skills on the team. You will set the standards for design velocity and delivering high-quality products.
• Mentor and coach. You will help your reports develop into the next generation of design and research leaders. You will also help them perform at their best, enabling their teams to grow and learn.
• Build the team. You will work with the team to attract, recruit and retain the best talent. You will help us build a strong employer brand that enables Algolia to have a voice in the product design community.
• Create a strong design culture. You will collaborate with the Brand Design Team to define our unified design culture and demonstrate it every day through your actions. You will embody and practice Algolia’s core values in the way you manage your team: grit, humility, candor, care, and trust.
• Scale design process and practices. You will work with the team and our creative director to keep evolving our methodological toolkit, and make sure it is shared and understood throughout the team and Algolia. You will help us build and mature our design system. You will work with Product and Engineering Leaders to ensure close alignment in our processes and initiatives.
• Create a Vision. You will work with the team to create and develop a unified experience across products and platforms. You will also help us define and bring to life the vision for research and product design at Algolia. Finally, you will be a part of strategic planning for Algolia and your team.
• Represent the team for the organization. You will work closely with our CPO and Algolia’s leadership team. You will be the primary voice of research and product design inside and outside the company: sharing its work, evangelizing its success, and articulating its vision and value.

A GREAT FIT WILL HAVE:

• Experience leading and scaling product design teams in a hyper-growth environment.
• Experience leading design at developer platform companies.
• Extensive management experience and can effectively grow and train new managers.
• A user-centric focus.
• You see leadership as a service role and strive to support and bring out the full potential in your reports and the organization.
• You know how to strike the right balance between quality, speed, and vision in our design and research execution
• You are adaptable and embrace change, have a growth mindset, willingness to own problems, a desire to make things better, and a sense of optimism.
• You are an expert communicator, and can do so effectively in written and spoken English.
• You have experience building and operationalizing a design system.
• You can be effective working across time zones and cultures.

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.

#LI-Hybrid #LI-Remote

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. 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. 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. 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. 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.

The team is headquartered in San Francisco with offices in Paris, London, New York, Austin, Atlanta, and Bucharest. 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. 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!