Staff Product Designer

Algolia is on a mission to empower every company to create delightful Search & Discovery experiences. We power over 1.5 trillion searches a year, for more than 17,000 customers from 100+ countries.

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 Mission

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.

The Opportunity

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.

Your role will consist of: 

• 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.

You might be a fit if you have:

• 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.

Ideally, you would also have:

• Prior work experience on a developer-first product
• Passion for working collaboratively across a dynamic, international workspace.

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.