Senior Product Manager, AI Assist

Summary

Join Algolia as a Senior Product Manager and drive product strategy and execution, shaping product offerings to meet market demands and exceed customer expectations. Collaborate with cross-functional departments to deliver impactful results. Drive product discovery to understand and define what's being built. Formulate and communicate product strategy, vision, and roadmap. Shape agile processes and foster cross-functional team dynamics. Build and nurture an agile and innovative product culture. Use analytical skills to understand usage, inform prioritization, and report on progress. Understand the competitive landscape and identify potential strategic partnerships. Collaborate with cross-functional partners for successful product launches and customer retention.

Requirements

• Proven experience in building and launching AI-driven products, ideally generative AI or automation solutions that support business users’ workflows
• B2B SaaS experience
• Deep user empathy, ability to collaborate with product design to build best-in-class user experiences
• Data-driven/informed, with a strong ability to leverage analytics to measure product success, prioritize features, and refine strategies based on customer insights
• Proven track record in shipping and iterating on products within an agile software development environment
• Strong cross-functional leadership and collaboration skills with engineering, design, product marketing, GTM sales, and customer support to help launch new products and support existing ones
• Ability to understand technical or complex business problems, craft effective strategies to tackle them, and present simple solutions to our customers
• Outstanding written and verbal communication skills

Responsibilities

• 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 agile 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, rapid prototyping and learning
• 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

Preferred Qualifications

• Expertise in search & recommendations engines, hands-on experience with AI/ML technologies
• Technical background, applied to industry and business problems
• Proven experience in designing and implementing workflow automation solutions that empower business users and enhance productivity
• Experience in or good understanding of eCommerce and/or media
• If no prior experience: ability and willingness to learn about specific industry trends and ecosystems, most importantly eCommerce

Benefits

• 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