Employee Experience Specialist

EngineersOfAI; New York (NY); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Algolia is seeking an Employee Experience Specialist to shape and continuously improve experiences across the employee lifecycle in a fast-growing environment. The role focuses on onboarding, listening programs, and engagement, partnering with People, IT, Workplace, Talent Acquisition, and business leaders to design measurable, scalable experiences that improve day-one productivity and long-term retention.

Success comes from blending data, technology, and feedback to drive meaningful

Qualifications

• Experience designing or improving employee experience programs, onboarding, engagement, or listening initiatives.
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to translate feedback into actionable recommendations.
• Excellent written and verbal communication with experience creating reports and stakeholder communications.

Responsibilities

• Own and continuously improve onboarding end-to-end for new hires.
• Lead employee listening initiatives and deliver timely insights to leaders.
• Analyze feedback and program data to identify trends and opportunities for engagement and retention.
• Design scalable processes and automate communications and workflows.

Skills

Employee Experience

Onboarding

Analytics

Stakeholder Management

Tools

Survey Software

Job description

At Algolia, we’re proud to be a pioneer and market leader in AI Search, empowering 18,000+ 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.

About the Role

We're looking for an Employee Experience Specialist to shape and continuously improve the experiences that matter most across the employee lifecycle.

Initially focused on onboarding, employee listening, and engagement, you'll partner across People, IT, Workplace, Talent Acquisition, and business leaders to create programs that are measurable, scalable, and engaging. You'll combine data, technology, and employee feedback to improve how employees experience Algolia from day one through key career milestones.

Success in this role means creating experiences that increase employee engagement, strengthen manager effectiveness, and enable the People team to operate more efficiently through thoughtful design, automation, and continuous improvement.

Key Responsibilities

Onboarding:

• 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.

Employee Listening:

• 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.

Employee Experience:

• 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.

Automation & Continuous Improvement:

• 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.

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 mi