Staff Product Designer

Algolia is set to enable every company to create world-class Search and Discovery experiences. Performance and Scalability is at the heart of our mission: we power 1.5 trillion searches a year, for 10K+ customers all over the world.

We are looking for a dynamic and experienced Staff Product Designer to join our fast moving team. You will engage with a wide range of product teams to support our highest business priorities, help solve critical customer problems, enable Algolia to experiment, learn and develop a strong product market fit for new ideas.

As a member of the UX team, you will also be a contributor to our Product Design system, working to continuously improve our design tools whilst using them to solve valuable customers problems.

• Be a strong UX partner to your Product Team, representing the customer’s needs in team discussions.
• Designing elegant experiences, based on data and insights, that solve customer problems.
• Designing and shipping high-quality components and patterns in a systematic, detail-oriented way, ensuring implementation is consistent with designs.
• Partner with PMs, engineers, other designers and stakeholders across the company to deliver products and features from conception to launch.
• Effectively communicate conceptual ideas, detailed design, and design rationale verbally and visually to a variety of audiences.
• Comfortable writing concise documentation to align expectations, goals, and guidelines among cross-functional teams.
• Own the success or failure of your design work: validate your designs and initiate improvements.
• Constantly seek and provide design feedback.

• 8+ years product design experience.
• Expertise supporting teams in framing and solving hard problems.
• Experience shipping quality design patterns and systems in a high growth environment. 
• Comfortable presenting to the company as a thought leader for UX.
• We expect you to be able to work and communicate across the organization at all levels.
• You must have experience deeply collaborating with research and product management.
• Strong analytical, creative and problem-solving skills.
• Expertise working within a UX development process: research, problem definition, ideation, solution design, validation and iteration.
• Demonstrates a strong understanding of typography, color, and hierarchy.
• Excellent communicator of design work and your rationale behind proposals.
• Excellent spoken and written English skills required.

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

• 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.