Senior Product Manager, Composition API London, England

At Algolia, we’re proud to be a pioneer and market leader in AI Search, empowering 17,000+ businesses to deliver blazing-fast, predictive search and browse experiences at internet scale. Every week, we power over 30 billion search requests — four times more than Microsoft Bing, Yahoo, Baidu, Yandex, and Duck Duck Go  combined.

In 2021, we raised $150 million in Series D funding, quadrupling our valuation to $2.25 billion. This strong foundation enables us to keep investing in our market-leading platform and serving incredible customers like Under Armour, Pet Smart, Stripe, Gymshark, and Walgreens.

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 Duck Duck Go  combined – for more than 18,000 customers from 100+ countries.

Your product mission is to enable advanced search and discovery with results from diverse data sources and retrieval methods (e.g. search or generative AI responses). Algolia’s unified approach provides context-aware, dynamic results, meeting today’s user expectations for both diversity and relevance. Your team is building out the next generation of Algolia’s search APIs and the orchestration layer behind it, whilst enabling business users to efficiently curate their results.

As a Senior Product Manager at Algolia, you will be at the forefront of driving product strategy and execution. This role is critical in shaping our product offerings to meet market demands and exceed our customers' expectations. You will collaborate with cross-functional departments to deliver impactful results and contribute to the overall success of the organisation.

• Drive product discovery to understand and define who for, why and what we’re building to deliver on the mission.
• Formulate, agree and communicate the strategy, vision, and roadmap with all key stakeholders.
• Whether it’s mocking up concepts, writing functional specs or drafting a copy - you’ll do whatever it takes to push your product throughout the end-to-end lifecycle, in collaboration with engineers, designers, other product managers and cross-functional collaborators.
• Shape delivery processes and foster cross-functional team dynamics to deliver delightful, powerful products that exceed customer expectations and drive tangible business outcomes.
• Build and nurture an agile and innovative product culture within the team, founded on the importance of continuous, iterative development.
• Use analytical and quantitative skills to understand usage, inform prioritization and report on progress.
• Understand the evolving competitive landscape and identify potential strategic partnerships for complementary product offerings.
• Collaborate with cross-functional partners (legal, marketing, sales, customer success) to successfully launch products, drive adoption, and optimize customer retention.

• B2B SaaS Expertise: Demonstrated success in driving product strategy and delivery in fast-paced B2B SaaS environments, ideally in infrastructure, developer platforms, or complex data products.
• API Product Leadership: Proven experience building, launching, and scaling technically sophisticated products, especially those involving APIs, search or data processing.
• Technical Fluency and Simplification: Ability to deeply understand technical domains, work closely with engineering to solve complex challenges, and translate technical capabilities into clear, customer-centric value propositions.
• User Empathy Across Personas: Strong user intuition and empathy across a range of personas, from developers and technical architects to business stakeholders. Demonstrated success in collaborating with Product Design and Engineering to deliver intuitive, high-quality experiences.
• Data-Informed Decision Making: Skilled in leveraging qualitative and quantitative insights to inform product strategy. Comfortable using analytics, experimentation, and customer feedback to measure success, prioritize work, and iterate effectively.
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