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.
Algolia is a fast growing company that helps users deliver intuitive search and discovery experiences on their websites and mobile apps. We provide APIs used by thousands of customers in more than 100 countries. Today, Algolia powers 1.5 Trillion searches a year – that’s 4 times more than Bing, Yahoo, DuckDuckGo, Baidu and Yandex combined!
THE MISSIONWe are building the next generation of AI powered search products. We make AI explainable and we help customers make data driven decisions through. Work with the product function to guide product development through use of analytics and experimentation. You will be an integral part of building the future of AI search. If you’re passionate about turning product data into actionable insights and driving product success, we’d love to hear from you.
THE OPPORTUNITYWe are seeking a skilled Senior Data Scientist to support the analytics efforts behind our product development. In this role, you will be responsible for product analytics across the entire lifecycle, from gathering and analysing user behaviour data to creating actionable recommendations that drive product decisions. The ideal candidate will have a deep understanding of product analytics, user experience, and the ability to transform data into clear insights that influence product strategy and development. The mission of Data Scientists is to improve customer and business outcomes through better automated decision-making, using Machine Learning and Statistical Modeling.
What you'll be doing:- Generate actionable product insights: Analyse and aggregate behaviour data to highlight trends, surface friction points and uncover opportunities that improve engagement, retention and conversion by translating findings into clear product recommendations that influence sprint planning and feature prioritisation.
- Design, run and evaluate experiments: Own end-to-end A/B test design, from hypothesis generation and power analysis through to post-test read-outs by partnering with engineering to ensure robust experiment implementation and with product to interpret results and iterate quickly.
- Define and monitor core product metrics: Define, track, and optimise product KPIs (such as user engagement, retention, conversion rates, etc.) to ensure that product improvements are measurable and aligned with business objectives via automated dashboards to make performance visible to teams and leadership by collaborating with Product Managers.
- User Segmentation & Cohort Analysis: Conduct deep-dive analyses into user cohorts and segments to identify patterns in behaviour and tailor product strategies to different user groups, and recommend tailored product strategies for high-value or at-risk cohorts
- Data Quality & Integrity: Validate tracking implementation, debug data issues and establish checks that guarantee analytical accuracy, and maintain well-documented code, queries and analytical notebooks.
- Contribute to scalable analytics infrastructure: Collaborate with Analytics Engineering to evolve datasets, schemas and pipelines that support self-serve analysis, and develop reusable modelling templates and experiment analysis frameworks.
- Documentation & Knowledge Sharing: Maintain clear documentation of product analytics methodologies, metrics, and insights, facilitating knowledge sharing across product and engineering teams, and craft compelling data stories using visualisations, clear narrative and business context.
- Experience with Data modelling and managing an Analytics Pipeline is desirable but not required.
- Spend 1-2 days per week in a local coworking space to collaborate with your teammates in person.
- Experience in building AI products and familiarity with ML/ methods
- 3+ years of hands-on experience in product analytics or applied data science, ideally within consumer-facing digital products.
- Advanced SQL and Python skills, with a good understanding of best practices in software engineering and data engineering. Familiarity with DBT is a plus.
- Solid knowledge of statistics: hypothesis testing, confidence intervals, and bootstrap. Strong understanding of experimentation methodologies (A/B testing, multivariate testing, etc.) and their application in product decision-making.
- Sound understanding of statistical and machine learning models: gradient boosted trees, logistic regression, neural networks, survival analysis, etc.
- Familiarity with end-to-end model development and maintenance of ML models used for business-critical decisions.
- Solid understanding of key product metrics such as user engagement, retention, churn, lifetime value, and conversion rates.
- Ability to work with engineering, design, product marketing, GTM sales, and customer support to help launch new products and support existing ones.
- Ability to understand technical business problems, craft effective strategies to tackle them, and present simple solutions to customers.
- Familiarity with search engines and search technologies.
- Detail-oriented, with a focus on data quality and integrity. Great attention to detail while keeping an eye on the big picture.
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Algolia is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, military status, veteran status, disability status, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law.
The annual base salary compensation range for this role reflects US market pay data within this location. The exact compensation offered for this role may vary depending on specific location and job-related knowledge, technical skills, and experience; and is only one part of our Total Rewards philosophy to compensate and recognize employees for their work.
FLEXIBLE WORKPLACE STRATEGY:
Algolia’s flexible workplace model is designed to empower all Algolians to fulfill our mission to power search and discovery with ease. We place an emphasis on an individual’s impact, contribution, and output, over their physical location. Algolia is a high-trust environment and many of our team members have the autonomy to choose where they want to work and when.
We have a global presence with offices in Paris, NYC, London, Sydney and Bucharest, however we also offer many of our team members the option to work remotely either as fully remote or hybrid-remote employees. Positions listed as "Remote" are only available for remote work within the specified country. Positions listed within a specific city are only available in that location - depending on the role it may be available with either a hybrid-remote or in-office schedule.
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.
We’re looking for talented, passionate people to help build the world’s best search and discovery technology. We value autonomy, diversity, and collaboration. We’re committed to creating an inclusive workplace where everyone is respected and supported—regardless of race, age, ancestry, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, marital status, color, veteran status, disability, or socioeconomic background.
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If you share our values and our enthusiasm for building the world’s best search & discovery technology, we’d love to review your application!
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What We Do
Algolia is the search-as-a-service platform that enables companies of all sizes to deliver fast and relevant digital experiences that drive real results. With Algolia, consumers are able to find and discover what they want easily across web, mobile, and voice. Algolia allows developers and business teams to build and optimize engaging search experiences to increase online engagement, conversion and revenue.
Founded in 2012, we're backed by over $175M in funding from Accel Partners, Alven Capital, Point Nine Capital, Storm Ventures, Salesforce Ventures and others. Our most recent fundraising round was our Series D in 2021 in which we raised $150 million. The team is headquartered in San Francisco with offices in Paris, London, New York City, Bucharest and Sydney. To learn more, visit www.algolia.com.
