Senior Manager, Product Management

Algolia; City Of London; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading AI search and discovery company based in London is seeking a Senior Product Manager to lead a portfolio that drives customer adoption and competitive differentiation. The ideal candidate will have 2+ years of people leadership experience, a strong background in eCommerce, and the ability to drive strategic communication across teams. The role offers flexibility with remote and hybrid opportunities.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of experience managing PMs with proven talent development.
• Success in managing multiple product lines with external partnerships.
• Experience with developer-first APIs and business-user workflows.
• Strong knowledge of ETL/ELT pipelines and data governance.
• Background in eCommerce or similar domains.

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage product managers to achieve high impact.
• Define vision, KPIs, and roadmaps for product portfolios.
• Drive measurable improvements in customer adoption and engagement.
• Collaborate with GTM and partners on ecosystem integrations.
• Ensure alignment across stakeholders through effective rituals.

Skills

People leadership

Portfolio ownership

Developer-first experience

Data & connectors depth

Domain experience in eCommerce

Strategic communication

Job description

Overview

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 for more than 17,000 customers from 100+ countries.

The Mission

Lead and grow a portfolio of products that together form the foundation of Algolia’s next generation of data and ecosystem platforms:

• Data & Connector Platform: Empower every business to unlock the full potential of their product/catalog data by providing data loading, transformation, and enrichment services. Make enriched data a first-class asset for exceptional search and discovery experiences.
• Composition: Enable business users and external systems to tailor and orchestrate Algolia results using a flexible API and UI. Provide tools to build composable, context-aware, curated experiences that blend Algolia retrieval with external sources, starting with retail media feeds.
• Ecosystem Experience: Ensure customers using external platforms (e.g., SFCC, Shopify, BigCommerce) can easily integrate and optimize Algolia to improve their performance with tailored experiences that meet their specific needs.
• Algolia Assist: Leverage our AI assistant to improve the user experience and make this tool accessible to every user.

The Opportunity

This is a senior product leadership role at the heart of Algolia’s strategy to unify data ingest > transform/enrich > retrieval/orchestration > business-user control. You will manage three experienced PMs, set direction across their areas, and ensure their work connects into a coherent, high-value portfolio. This portfolio directly impacts customer adoption, time-to-value, and differentiation in eCommerce and beyond.

What you'll be doing:

• Lead & Manage PMs: Hire, coach, and grow PMs. Set goals, run performance cycles, and help them deliver outsized impact.
• Define Portfolio Strategy: Own vision, KPIs, and roadmaps across Data, Connector, Composition. Ensure the three areas reinforce each other and connect into Algolia’s broader AI Search & Agentic platform.
• Deliver Outcomes, not Features: Drive measurable improvements in customer adoption, onboarding time, conversion performance, and search relevance.
• Ecosystem & Partnerships: Work closely with GTM, PS, and partner teams on ecosystem integrations (e.g., Criteo, Zitcha, SFCC, Shopify, BigCommerce).
• Stakeholder Alignment: Operate crisp product rituals (roadmaps, PR/FAQs, CPRs, WBRs) that keep leadership, engineering, GTM, and customers aligned.

Role Requirements

• People Leadership: 2+ years directly managing PMs with a track record of developing talent and raising the bar.
• Portfolio Ownership: Proven success running multiple product lines in parallel with dependencies and external partnerships.
• Developer-First Experience: Skilled in developer-first APIs/platforms as well as business-user workflows (commerce, content, media). Proven experience building and shipping developer-first products, tools, or APIs.
• Data & Connectors Depth: Strong understanding of ETL/ELT pipelines, data quality, governance, and extensibility models.
• Domain Experience: Background in eCommerce, content-heavy, or media use cases. Experience with platforms, partner integrations, or merchant-facing products (or equivalent).
• Strategic Communicator: Comfortable simplifying complexity, framing trade-offs, and aligning executives and cross-functional stakeholders.

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 emphasize impact, contribution, and output over location. Algolia is a high-trust environment with many team members able to work remotely or in hybrid-remote arrangements.

While we have a global presence with offices in Paris, NYC, London, Sydney and Bucharest, many roles can be fully remote or hybrid-remote depending on location. Some positions listed as "Remote" are available only for remote work within a specified country; others listed for a specific city may be available in hybrid-remote or in-office schedules.

About Us

Algolia is a pioneer and market leader offering an AI Search solution that enables 17,000+ businesses to compose customer experiences at internet scale with fast search and browsing. Algolia powers more than 30 billion search requests per week—a figure four times larger than Microsoft Bing, Yahoo, Baidu, Yandex and DuckDuckGo combined.

Algolia is part of a cadre of innovative companies driving the next generation of software development, creating APIs to make developers’ lives easier and solutions that are better than building from scratch or tweaking monolithic SaaS solutions.

Who We're Looking For

We’re seeking talented, passionate people to build the world’s best search & discovery technology. As an ownership-driven company, we value autonomy and diversity. We’re committed to an inclusive and diverse workplace and welcome applicants regardless of race, age, ancestry, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, marital status, color, veteran status, disability or socioeconomic background.

Ready to Apply

If you share our values and enthusiasm for building the world’s best search & discovery technology, we’d love to review your application.