Senior Solutions Architect

Open to candidates based in Pacific time in the US. 

Algolia, the leader in providing industry grade search and discovery tools to drive richer, more powerful engagement and success capabilities, is seeking a Solutions Architect to accelerate technical success and product adoption. You'll collaborate closely with enterprise customers, owning Algolia solution patterns and offering trusted advice for successful implementation. Additionally, you'll influence the product roadmap and facilitate tailored solutions, both internally and externally, to enhance customer success.

As a Solutions Architect, your role involves guiding customers in design, strategy, and best practices for Algolia product deployments. We're looking for candidates with a development and consulting background, technical expertise, and strong relationship skills to drive outstanding outcomes across business units and product teams.

THE ROLE WILL CONSIST OF:

• Be a Trusted Advisor; engage with our customers’ technical architects and business stakeholders to provide high-quality technical solutions and product training to drive successful customer outcomes
• Link business processes with product technical solutions
• Execute delivery methodology to drive projects to completion on time and on budget    
• Troubleshoot key customer implementation issues and demonstrate ability to drive successful resolution
• Prototype and catalog new solutions to fit business pain points 
• Consult on architecture, indexing, searching, and UI best practices 
• Expand relationship and product usage within the enterprise segment 
• Engage in customer calls and on-site visits to help inform and align on product roadmaps for future partnership growth
• Aid in the development of detailed action plan, roadmap, prototype, final recommendation document, SM Action Plan and Retrospective
• Partner with Success Management and Engagement Manager and other internal roles to understand project goals and deliverables
• Create and increase reusability of solutions content (blog posts, workshop tutorials, etc), tooling, and internal projects  
• Build out tooling and/or collateral to help scale customer engagement
• Inform and ultimately evolve product ecosystem by listening and advocating for customers technical needs
• Work with Engineering to track and resolve feature requests and bugs   
• Meet with Product to stay informed on the latest changes to Algolia ecosystem and disseminate internally and to customers as appropriate

REQUIRED SKILLS / EXPERIENCE:

• 5+ years experience in a customer-facing, consultative, and deeply technical role 
• Prior relevant experience working with commerce platforms (Ex: Shopify, Magento, SFCC)  
• Polished consulting skills
• Ability to tactfully navigate and effectively address client messaging and recommendations
• Ability to establish credibility and rapport with Senior Executives and technical and non-technical team member
• Proficient in Javascript/HTML/CSS for the front-end
• Proficient in a backend framework (i.e. node, Rails, Django, etc.)
• Excellent analytical and problem solving skills with a history of hands-on project management of large and small initiatives
• Ability to prioritize tasks effectively with a high-level of attention to detail
• Ability to quickly define dependencies, issues, and outline mitigation plans against risks
• Ability to work under tight deadlines while being flexible and responding to changing business and technical conditions
• Ability to communicate effectively to both the technology and business communities
• Consistent history of business-building successes and passion for results

NICE TO HAVE:

• French or Spanish Speaking
• Backend/frontend mobile development
• Analytics, A/B testing
• Project management experience
• Experience within search domain and search-as-a-service companies
• Familiarity in relevant verticals: E-commerce/Search/ CMS/ DXP 
• Elastic/Solr
• Experience at our current stage and beyond ($50-200M ARR range, high growth, lots of change and building internal infrastructure)

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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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.

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.

ABOUT US:

Algolia prides itself on being a pioneer and market leader offering an AI Search solution that empowers 17,000+ businesses to compose customer experiences at internet scale that predict what their users want with blazing fast search and web browse experience. Algolia powers more than 30 billion search requests a week – four times more than Microsoft Bing, Yahoo, Baidu, Yandex and DuckDuckGo combined.

Algolia is part of a cadre of innovative new companies that are driving the next generation of software development, creating APIs that make developers’ lives easier; solutions that are better than building from scratch and better than having to tweak monolithic SaaS solutions.

In 2021, the company closed $150 million in series D funding and quadrupled its post-money valuation of $2.25 billion. Being well capitalized enables Algolia to continue to invest in its market leading platform, to better serve its thousands of customers–including Under Armor, Petsmart, Stripe, Gymshark, and Walgreens, to name just a few. 

WHO WE'RE LOOKING FOR:

We’re looking for talented, passionate people to build the world’s best search & discovery technology. As an ownership-driven company, we seek team members who thrive within an environment based on autonomy and diversity. We're committed to building an inclusive and diverse workplace. We care about each other and the world around us, and embrace talented people regardless of their race, age, ancestry, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, marital status, color, veteran status, disability and socioeconomic background.

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!