Staff Product Manager

Algolia helps businesses and developers understand their online users and show them exactly what they need. As a leader in AI search and discovery, we power over 1.8 trillion searches a year – four times more than Microsoft Bing, Yahoo, Baidu, Yandex and DuckDuckGo combined - for more than 17,000 customers from 100+ countries.

The Mission

Your product mission is to make Algolia the builder-first platform for agentic applications. Agent Studio empowers developers and business users to compose retrieval, memory, workflows, tools, and evaluation in one place - then ship those workflows to production with confidence. You will equip customers with the ability to go from prototype to production quickly, reliably, and with governance built in.

The Opportunity

As a Staff Product Manager at Algolia, you will shape the vision and execution of Agent Studio, the front door to Algolia’s Agentic Platform. This role is critical in defining how Algolia becomes the default environment for building, evaluating, and scaling agent workflows. You will collaborate across engineering, design, product marketing, and GTM to deliver impactful results, multiply the impact of other PMs, and contribute directly to the company’s long-term success.

What you'll be doing:

• Drive product discovery to define the who, why, and what of Agent Studio.
• Formulate, align, and communicate the strategy, vision, and roadmap for Agent Studio across the organisation.
• Define the abstraction layers (workflow blocks, memory & tool adapters, eval harnesses, guardrails) that let developers and business users build reliably.
• Mock up concepts, write functional specs, cut tickets, draft copy : whatever it takes to push the product throughout its lifecycle.
• Partner deeply with engineers, designers, and other PMs to ship delightful, powerful builder experiences.
• Shape agile processes and foster team dynamics that encourage continuous learning, rapid prototyping, and eval-driven iteration.
• Build and scale an evaluation culture (offline + online): golden sets, regressions, quality metrics, and ship gates.
• Use analytical and quantitative skills to track adoption, cost, latency, and quality managing the business by the numbers.
• Stay ahead of the competitive landscape (agent frameworks, eval platforms, orchestration tools) and identify strategic partnerships to strengthen the ecosystem.
• Engage directly with customers and design partners to validate real-world agentic workflows.

Role Requirements:

• Proven experience in building and shipping developer-first platforms, tools, or APIs.
• Demonstrated success in shipping and iterating products within an agile development environment.
• Ability to work cross-functionally with engineering, design, marketing, sales, and support to launch and scale products.
• Strong ability to frame technical and business problems, craft strategies, and deliver simple solutions.
• Deep curiosity and user empathy for both developers and business users.
• Outstanding written and verbal communication skills.

What would make you stand out:

• Expertise in agentic workflows, retrieval (keyword, vector, hybrid), memory, or orchestration frameworks.
• Familiarity with LLM evaluation, telemetry, governance, and provenance.
• Technical background with hands-on coding experience (for fun, school, or work).
• Experience in or strong understanding of eCommerce, content-heavy use cases, or media workflows.
• Proven experience in designing workflow automation or builder tools that empower teams and enhance productivity.

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.

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!