Director, Product Management, 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 Director of Product 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 organisati