Staff Product Designer, Algolia
Site search and discovery powered by AI
Open for applications
Site search and discovery powered by AI
501-1000 employees
Open for applications
501-1000 employees
Company mission
Algolia's mission is to change the way people interact with data.
Role
Who you are
- 7+ years product design experience
- Strong understanding of visual design, typography, color, and hierarchy
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills, as you’ll collaborate across the organization at all levels
- Experience leading cross-team/org-wide initiatives
- You must have experience deeply collaborating with product and engineering teams
- Strong communicator of design work and your rationale behind proposals
Desirable
- Prior work experience on a developer-first product
- Passion for working collaboratively across a dynamic, international workspace
What the job involves
- We’re looking for a Staff Product Designer to create amazing experiences across Search & Discovery products, the hub for all our products and features
- This is an exciting opportunity for you to work on mission-critical initiatives that have a huge impact on all Algolia customers
- Join our team and take ownership of key initiatives, work collaboratively with your partners, and drive it to success with a clear vision and strategy
- The User Experience group at Algolia is building a practice and platform that activates product and revenue opportunities, sets a high bar for product quality through design, and ensures that the customer’s needs are portrayed in every product conversation
- You will be responsible for crafting best-in-class journeys for Algolia users
- By partnering closely with product managers, engineers, and user research, you’ll develop solutions that create high quality customer experiences
- Designing and shipping high-quality user interfaces, including interaction design, information architecture, visual design, and prototyping
- Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to align and execute on shared business goals through user-centric work
- Creating clear and impactful designs, prototypes, and documents to align expectations, goals, and guidelines across teams
- Be a strong partner in assessing the usability, viability, and feasibility of Algolia’s products and features
- Collaborating with other Product Designers to ensure a cohesive customer experience across different Algolia products and features
- Providing guidance and support to developers and product teams across the business
Our take
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.
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Insights
Few 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
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Leadership
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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