Principal Product Manager, Tech Platform

We are seeking an experienced Principal Product Manager 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 pro