Principal Product Manager, Tech Platform
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 DuckDuckGo 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, PetSmart, Stripe, Gymshark, and Walgreens.
We are seeking an experienced Principal Product Manager to lead our Tech Platform organization - a flagship role critical to Algolia's future. This position oversees three teams spanning multiple geographies:
- AI Platform: Accelerates the iteration speed of AI development at Algolia
- Engine & Infrastructure: Provides a scalable, developer-friendly API platform to accelerate innovation and ensures our infrastructure scales to support all customers and feature development
- Platform SDK: Makes it easy for Algolia developers to build and extend solutions using our infrastructure
You'll be responsible for the platform that powers both our current search capabilities and our future agentic infrastructure. The Tech Platform accelerates internal development and ensures our infrastructure scales seamlessly across customers of all sizes - from small businesses to large enterprises. This is the backbone that will power everything we run live at Algolia, including our evolution into the agentic world.
YOUR ROLE WILL CONSIST OF:
- Lead and bridge teams across geographies: Manage and mentor product managers in Europe and Australia (approximately 30% management, 70% IC work), ensuring effective collaboration across time zones and teams
- Define platform strategy and vision: Lead, define and communicate the strategy for the Tech Platform with executive stakeholders and teams across the organisation
- Drive the flagship platform forward: Own the trajectory, development, timelines, and delivery of major features for Algolia's core platform that powers search and future agentic capabilities
- Accelerate development velocity: Work across AI Platform, Engine & Infrastructure, and Platform SDK teams to maximize iteration speed and enable rapid feature development
- Identify platformization opportunities: Collaborate hand in hand with engineers and product managers from other teams to identify areas that can be platformised to maximise impact when building new capabilities
- Balance internal and customer needs: While primarily serving internal teams by building developer-friendly tools and infrastructure, maintain customer-facing responsibilities to understand infrastructure constraints and prioritise features based on business objectives
- Focus on scalability and extensibility: Ensure our infrastructure scales to support all customers while making it easy for developers to build and extend solutions
- Drive retrieval and agentic infrastructure: Lead our retrieval capabilities forward while anticipating and planning for infrastructure needs in the agentic world
- Master technical complexity: Understand the cloud and infrastructure landscape in-depth, working with engineering to define the most suitable technical solutions for our growing range of customers
- Communicate across all levels: Translate complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders across the organization, including executive leadership
- Drive cross-functional collaboration: Work with engineering, design, product marketing, GTM sales, and customer support to help launch new products and support existing ones
- Build strategic partnerships: Develop alliances with third-parties to build a successful product at the best cost possible and identify new opportunities
YOU MIGHT BE A FIT IF YOU HAVE:
- 7-10+ years of experience in product management, ideally building developer-first products with significant platform PM experience
- Management experience with IC focus: Background in PM Mentoring.
- Strong platform product management expertise: Proven track record building and scaling technical platforms that serve internal and external stakeholders, with experience in API platforms, SDKs, or infrastructure products
- Technical depth: 5+ years with multi-tier distributed architecture, enterprise software infrastructure, cloud technologies, and related systems
- Developer empathy: Deep understanding of what makes platforms and tools developer-friendly, with experience accelerating engineering velocity
- Executive stakeholder management: Demonstrated ability to communicate and influence at the executive level
- Outstanding communication skills: Ability to explain complex technical concepts to diverse audiences, from engineers to GTM teams
- Relevant technology experience: Familiarity with search engines, ML/AI technologies, retrieval systems, and platform infrastructure
- Scale experience: Preference for candidates with experience at our current stage and beyond (over 10,000 customers, $200-500M ARR range, high growth, building internal infrastructure)
- Bonus: Experience writing code (for fun, college, or work)
This is a flagship position where you'll have a significant impact on Algolia's core technology and future direction. If you're ready to take on a critical, high-visibility role that balances strategic leadership with hands-on product work, we'd love to hear from you.
FLEXIBLE WORKPLACE STRATEGY:
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.
We have a global presence with offices in Paris, NYC, London, Sydney and Bucharest, however we also offer many of our team members the option to work remotely either as fully remote or hybrid-remote employees. 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 role it may be available with either a hybrid-remote or in-office schedule.
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.
We’re looking for talented, passionate people to help build the world’s best search and discovery technology. We value autonomy, diversity, and collaboration. We’re committed to creating an inclusive workplace where everyone is respected and supported—regardless of race, age, ancestry, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, marital status, color, veteran status, disability, or socioeconomic background.
PLEASE REVIEW OUR POLICY FOR AI USE IN INTERVIEWS - https://www.algolia.com/blog/algolia/algolia-ai-guidelines-for-candidates
IMPORTANT NOTICE FOR CANDIDATES - Recruitment Fraud Notice
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- Our open positions may appear on third-party job boards, but the best way to apply safely is directly through our careers page.
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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!
Questions & answers for this job
- What is the type of contract for this job?The contract for this job is a Full-time contract
- What's the salary range for the Principal Product Manager, Tech Platform position?The suggested salary for this job is £95,000 - £105,000*
- Is telecommuting possible for this job?No, telecommuting is not possible for this job
