Staff Product Designer, Growth
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.
Algolia’s product-led growth motion plays a central role in how users discover value, activate, and expand their usage on our platform. From first-time onboarding to long-term adoption of advanced features, growth design at Algolia is about reducing friction, increasing confidence, and helping users reach meaningful outcomes faster.
We’re looking for a Growth Designer to work end to end across the user lifecycle, partnering closely with Product Managers,Engineers, and Marketers across multiple Growth squads. This role blends strong product design craft with experimentation, data-informed decision-making, and lightweight design-engineering fluency to help teams move quickly from insight to impact.
You’ll focus on solving real user problems while driving measurable business outcomes, designing experiences that make Algolia easier to adopt, more intuitive to grow with, and more compelling to return to.
The Team
This role sits within the Product Design team, embedded directly in 2–3 Growth squads. Algolia is a remote-first, globally distributed company, and our design organisation partners closely with Product, Engineering, Data, and Marketing to deliver thoughtful, developer-centric experiences.
As a Growth Designer, you’ll have deep ownership within your squads while staying connected to the broader design team for craft, critique, and design system collaboration.
Your Role
As a Growth Designer, you will:
- Design and optimise end-to-end growth experiences across onboarding, activation, engagement, and expansion
- Identify friction points and opportunities across key funnels using both qualitative research and quantitative data
- Collaborate with PMs, engineers, and data partners to define growth hypotheses and translate them into experiments and shipped experiences
- Support experiment-driven development through rapid iteration, prototyping, and lightweight validation
- Contribute to and evolve Algolia’s design system, especially as it relates to scalable growth patterns and lifecycle experiences
- Balance speed, quality, and impact, moving quickly without compromising usability or clarity
- Advocate for user needs while aligning design decisions with growth and business objectives
What We’re Looking For
You might be a great fit if you have:
- 5+ years of experience as a Product Designer, Growth Designer, or similar role in Developer Tooling / B2B SaaS
- Experience designing for developer-facing products or highly technical audiences
- Demonstrated experience designing for growth across the full lifecycle: onboarding, activation, engagement, and expansion
- Comfort working in data-informed environments, using metrics like activation, conversion, retention, or feature adoption to guide decisions
- Experience collaborating in experiment-driven teams, including A/B testing and iterative rollout
- Strong interaction and UX design skills, with fluency in Figma and modern design workflows
- Light design-engineering or prototyping fluency (e.g. interactive prototypes, experimentation tools, or basic front-end awareness)
- Ability to work effectively with cross-functional partners across product, engineering, data, and marketing
- A pragmatic, outcome-oriented mindset focused on learning, iteration, and measurable impact
- Familiarity with product-led growth models, freemium or usage-based pricing, or self-serve SaaS
Nice to Have
- Experience working with analytics tools (e.g. Amplitude, Mixpanel, GA, internal dashboards)
- Experience in conducting user interviews, synthesising results and creating hypotheses
- Exposure to AI-powered or data-rich interfaces
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.
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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
- Is telecommuting possible for this job?No, telecommuting is not possible for this job