Vp, Ai

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

The Mission

Empower developers to build and business owners to control and optimize discovery experiences that inspire their users and increase their chances to land on content they'd be interested in. We are building the recommendation engine for the world. Personalized and relevant sessions for every user every time is our north star.

The Opportunity

Algolia is the world’s only comprehensive search and discovery company. The core of discovery is recommendation. While Algolia’s history with Search is based on users pulling content with queries, Recommend aims at pushing content to them, without any particular explicit trigger. Using our recommendation platform means any business can take advantage of nex-gen (advanced) AI and ML technologies to create great online customer experiences. Our platform is the only one that can be customized to any companys’ unique business needs and instantly delivers precise, session-based recommendations. It’s designed to be easily integrated into existing infrastructure and software and doesn’t require constant and costly API and software updates. Recommendations generate more engagement from users (e.g. the success of feeds like TikTok demonstrate the power of pushing contents). Finally, Recommend completes the discovery experience by filling areas that would not otherwise be filled with search. For example, auto-suggestion cart additions or media playlists or

The Team

The Search Platform is a remote first, multicultural team that believes our diversity should match the world around us. We are looking for a VP of Product who can define the long-term vision, articulate a long-term strategy, grow a global team of Product leaders, establish strong product mechanisms, build a roadmap and drive execution for product lines within Search Platform. As the VP of Product, you will deeply understand and instrument our activation funnel, research and develop success metrics, communicate and engage with our customers. Additionally, you will work cross functionally with other teams creating delightful moments for our customers.

YOUR ROLE WILL CONSIST OF:

- Lead, define, and communicate the strategy, vision and roadmap of our Search Platform with all key stakeholders, partnering with the Executive Leadership Team.
- Build processes to deliver and maintain APIs that satisfy the needs of our customers
- Collaborate with UX design efforts supporting product iterations of our dashboard as well as integrated platforms
- Collaborate with engineering and machine learning teams to master the specifications of our APIs, and lead technical product development and integrations initiatives
- Build and nurture an agile and innovative product culture within the group and company, founded on the importance of continuous and rapid prototyping and learning
- Assess product development sprints and enhancement opportunities, monitor progress and evaluate results
- Develop budgets, forecasts, and metrics
- Drive innovative ideas, solutions and products through leadership and decisive action
- Understand the evolving competitive landscape and identify potential strategic partnerships for complementary product offerings
- Build and grow a team of world-class product managers

YOU MIGHT BE A FIT IF YOU HAVE:

- 10+ years experience in technical B2B product management
- 6+ years experience leading teams of product managers
- Demonstrated track record of building high value product teams
- Demonstrated success in shipping and iterating on products within an agile software development environment
- Ability to understand highly technical business problems, craft effective strategies to tackle them, and present simple solutions to our customers
- Outstanding written and verbal communication skills
- Extremely well organized with the ability to balance multiple concurrent priorities in a fast-paced and dynamic startup environment
- Demonstrable familiarity with building and shipping real-time APIs
- 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.

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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