Solutions Architect, Algolia

German Speaking

Salary not provided
CSS
HTML
JavaScript
Node.js
Junior and Mid level
Paris
Algolia

Site search and discovery powered by AI

Job no longer available

Algolia

Site search and discovery powered by AI

501-1000 employees

B2BArtificial IntelligenceEnterpriseAnalyticsBusiness IntelligenceAPIeCommerce

Job no longer available

Salary not provided
CSS
HTML
JavaScript
Node.js
Junior and Mid level
Paris

501-1000 employees

B2BArtificial IntelligenceEnterpriseAnalyticsBusiness IntelligenceAPIeCommerce

Company mission

Algolia's mission is to change the way people interact with data.

Role

Who you are

  • An ideal background includes previous experience in a development and consulting role. The candidate is a seasoned professional with strong technical and business architecture experience to support the full Algolia product scope
  • Excellent relationship skills and the ability to partner across customer business units, other internal business units, and product teams will be critical to support delivery of expected outcomes
  • Fluent English and German language skills
  • Polished consulting skills
  • Keen awareness of sensitive client topics
  • Capability to tactfully navigate and effectively address client messaging and recommendations
  • 2+ years professional experience as a full-stack web developer
  • Proficient in Javascript/HTML/CSS for the front-end
  • Proficient in a backend framework (i.e. node, Rails, Django, etc.)
  • Ability to establish credibility and rapport with Senior Executives and technical and non-technical team members
  • 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

Desirable

  • Backend/frontend mobile development
  • Analytics, A/B testing
  • Familiarity in relevant verticalsE-commerce/SaaS/Media
  • Project management experience
  • Experience within search domain and search-as-a-service companies
  • Elastic/Solr
  • Experience at our current stage and beyond ($50-200M ARR range, high growth, lots of change and building internal infrastructure)

What the job involves

  • Solutions Architects are chartered with driving technical success and adoption of our most strategic enterprise customers
  • The Algolia product is a powerful platform, but it is the implementation that propels the highest customer outcomes
  • Solutions Architects take responsibility in owning Algolia solution patterns and consultation as trusted advisors to the enterprise customer base
  • The Solutions Architect team is also a key driver in the creation and prioritisation of the core product roadmap, enabling and ensuring our valued customers successfully leverage Algolia
  • Prototyping, developing and sharing unique tailored solutions via workshops and collateral - both internally and externally - helps both Algolia, and the depth of your own solution mastery
  • A key responsibility will be to lead, evaluate and contribute to our customer’s design efforts and advising customers on topics including vision, strategy and best practices for deployment of Algolia products, increasing adoption of Algolia products, and metrics for measuring the effectiveness of Algolia product deployments
  • 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

Otta's take

Theo Margolius headshot

Theo Margolius

COO of Otta

While in-site searching has been available for some time from web search servers such as Google and Bing, its functionality is limited due to it relying on general web scraping techniques which can miss relevant information. By contrast Algolia indexes only the company's site, allowing its search to serve accurate results extremely swiftly, which helps to drive sales conversions aside from making sites far more usable. The efficacy of this solution can be seen from its customer base of over 10,000 companies including the likes of Slack, Zendesk and Lacoste.

To diversify and increase the product range, Algolia have expanded into other real-time APIs such as product recommendations available for eCommerce websites. With the company performing extremely well over the last few years, Algolia have recruited key senior executives to futher its growth. As the company continues to scale it seems likely that an IPO is not too distant a prospect.

Insights

Led by a woman
Top investors

Some candidates hear
back within 2 weeks

33% female employees

-3% employee growth in 12 months

Company

Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)

Jul 2021

$150m

SERIES D

Oct 2019

$110m

SERIES C

Total funding: $334m

Company benefits

  • Health Insurance
  • Mental Health Care
  • Accidental Death & Dismemberment Insurance
  • Dental Insurance
  • Disability Insurance
  • Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
  • Health Savings Account (HSA)
  • Life Insurance

Company values

  • Grit - We thrive outside of our comfort zone, pushing ourselves to go ever further. We think long-term and constantly strive to be better, even if things don't always go as expected
  • Trust - We trust each other just as we trust our users. We earn that trust by listening to each other, following through with our commitments and keeping our words
  • Care - We want the best for our customers, community & colleagues. We go above and beyond to make sure they are happy
  • Candor - We are open and honest. We give each other praise and criticism because we want to challenge each other and help one another grow
  • Humility - We want our teammates to succeed as much as we do ourselves. We believe each team member is as important as the other and we approach each new challenge knowing that we may not have all the answer

Company HQ

Barron Park, Palo Alto, CA

Founders

Bernadette Nixon

(CEO, not founder)

Was previously CEO of Alfresco. Before that, was CRO at SDL and SVP & GM for OpenText


People progressing

Joined as an Account Executive. Promoted to Senior Account Executive after 1 year. They have been promoted to Director of Sales, Northern Europe.

Joined as an Enterprise Account Executive. Promoted to Director of Enterprise Sales after 2 years. Then promoted again to Head of Sales after 1 year. They are currently the Vice President of Sales for EMEA & APAC regions.

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