People Operations Specialist

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.

Our People team is looking for a People Operations Specialist (France & EMEA) who will own People Operations in France & EMEA while driving improvements through systems, automation, and data.

This role sits at the intersection of People Operations, People Systems, and employee support, with primary ownership of managing and responding to People Support Help Desk tickets. The core focus is delivering timely, high-quality responses to employee requests, ensuring a strong day-to-day support experience. Building on those insights, you will optimize employee lifecycle processes, enhance help desk operations, and reduce manual work through improved system design and integrations - driving more scalable and efficient ways of working over time.

The ideal candidate has experience working with global, distributed teams and is comfortable operating across both HR and technical domains. You should be able to manage day-to-day operations while also identifying opportunities to improve workflows, implement automation, and strengthen data integrity across systems.

As a team member we are looking for someone who embodies our core values: someone with grit that the team can absolutely trust, who genuinely cares about our people, and who acts with candor and humility. Collaborating with a global team, you will be a strong communicator, empathetic and humble and comfortable with the unknown