Director, Product Management, Tech Platform

At Algolia, we’re proud to be a pioneer and market leader in AI Search, empowering 17,000+ 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. We are seeking an experienced Director of Product to lead our Tech Platform organization - a flagship role critical to Algolia's future. This position oversees three teams spanning multiple geographies: AI Platform : Accelerates the iteration speed of AI development at Algolia Engine & Infrastructure : Provides a scalable, developer-friendly API platform to accelerate innovation and ensures our infrastructure scales to support all customers and feature development Platform SDK : Makes it easy for Algolia developers to build and extend solutions using our infrastructure You'll be responsible for the platform that powers both our current search capabilities and our future agentic infrastructure. The Tech Platform accelerates internal development and ensures our infrastructure scales seamlessly across customers of all sizes - from small businesses to large enterprises. This is the backbone that will power everything we run live at Algolia, including our evolution into the agentic world. YOUR ROLE WILL CONSIST OF: Lead and bridge teams across geographies : Manage and mentor product managers in Europe and Australia (approximately 30% management, 70% IC work), ensuring effective collaboration across time zones and teams Define platform strategy and vision : Lead, define and communicate the strategy for the Tech Platform with executive stakeholders and teams across the organisation Drive the flagship platform forward : Own the trajectory, development, timelines, and delivery of major features for Algolia's core platform that powers search and future agentic capabilities Accelerate development velocity : Work across AI Platform, Engine & Infrastructure, and Platform SDK teams to maximize iteration speed and enable rapid feature development Identify platformization opportunities : Collaborate hand in hand with engineers and product managers from other teams to identify areas that can be platformised to maximise impact when building new capabilities Balance internal and customer needs : While primarily serving internal teams by building developer-friendly tools and infrastructure, maintain customer-facing responsibilities to understand infrastructure constraints and prioritise features based on business objectives Focus on scalability and extensibility : Ensure our infrastructure scales to support all customers while making it easy for developers to build and extend solutions Drive retrieval and agentic infrastructure : Lead our retrieval capabilities forward while anticipating and planning for infrastructure needs in the agentic world Master technical complexity : Understand the cloud and infrastructure landscape in-depth, working with engineering to define the most suitable technical solutions for our growing range of customers Communicate across all levels : Translate complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders across the organization, including executive leadership Drive cross-functional collaboration : Work with engineering, design, product marketing, GTM sales, and customer support to help launch new products and support existing ones Build strategic partnerships : Develop alliances with third-parties to build a successful product at the best cost possible and identify new opportunities YOU MIGHT BE A FIT IF YOU HAVE: 7-10+ years of experience in product management , ideally building developer-first products with significant pla