Employee Experience Architect

Algolia; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 100,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Algolia is seeking an Employee Experience Specialist to shape and continuously improve experiences across the employee lifecycle. You’ll focus on onboarding, listening, and engagement, partnering across People, IT, Workplace, and Talent Acquisition to create scalable, measurable programs.

Success means increasing engagement, strengthening manager effectiveness, and enabling the People team to operate more efficiently through thoughtful design, automation, and continuous improvement.

Qualifications

• Experience designing or improving employee experience programs, onboarding, engagement, or employee listening initiatives
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to translate employee feedback into actionable recommendations
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with experience creating reports, presentations, and stakeholder communications
• Experience partnering across multiple teams to deliver programs and influence outcomes
• A continuous improvement mindset, with experience simplifying processes through technology, automation, or AI
• Comfort working with employee experience platforms, survey tools, collaboration technologies, and reporting systems

Responsibilities

• Own and continuously improve the end-to-end onboarding experience for new hires.
• Design programs that accelerate engagement, connection, and early productivity during the first 30, 60, and 90 days.
• Use employee feedback and business metrics to identify opportunities for improvement.
• Partner with Talent Acquisition, People Operations, IT, Workplace, Learning & Development, and business leaders to deliver a seamless onboarding experience.
• Identify opportunities to automate onboarding communications, workflows, and employee touchpoints.
• Own the execution and continuous improvement of engagement, pulse, onboarding, and lifecycle surveys.
• Deliver timely reporting and actionable insights to leaders and managers.
• Develop communications, resources, and action-planning materials that help leaders turn feedback into action.
• Establish governance that creates a consistent, scalable employee listening strategy.
• Analyze employee feedback and program data to identify trends, risks, and opportunities.
• Translate qualitative and quantitative insights into recommendations that improve engagement, retention, and employee experience.
• Measure program effectiveness and continuously improve key employee lifecycle experiences.
• Help build a connected employee lifecycle across onboarding, development, engagement, internal mobility, and offboarding.
• Identify friction points and recommend scalable improvements that enhance the employee experience.
• Use employee feedback, operational data, and stakeholder insights to inform future program design.
• Identify opportunities to simplify, standardize, and automate Employee Experience programs and workflows.
• Leverage AI and automation to improve onboarding, employee communications, survey administration, reporting, and insight generation.
• Partner with IT and system owners to optimize tools, integrations, and employee experience technologies.

Skills

Experience designing employee programs

Onboarding design

Employee listening programs

Data-driven insights

Cross-functional collaboration

Automation and AI in processes

Job description

Algolia is seeking an Employee Experience Specialist to shape and continuously improve experiences across the employee lifecycle. You’ll focus on onboarding, listening, and engagement, partnering across People, IT, Workplace, and Talent Acquisition to create scalable, measurable programs.

Success means increasing engagement, strengthening manager effectiveness, and enabling the People team to operate more efficiently through thoughtful design, automation, and continuous improvement.