Solutions Architect at Algo (Archived) | VirtualInterview.ai

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.

Open to candidates based in Pacific time in the US.

Algolia, the leader in providing industry grade search and discovery tools to drive richer, more powerful engagement and success capabilities, is seeking a Solutions Architect to accelerate technical success and product adoption. You'll collaborate closely with enterprise customers, owning Algolia solution patterns and offering trusted advice for successful implementation. Additionally, you'll influence the product roadmap and facilitate tailored solutions, both internally and externally, to enhance customer success.

As a Solutions Architect, your role involves guiding customers in design, strategy, and best practices for Algolia product deployments. We're looking for candidates with a development and consulting background, technical expertise, and strong relationship skills to drive outstanding outcomes across business units and product teams.

THE ROLE WILL CONSIST OF:

Be a Trusted Advisor; engage with our customers’ technical architects and business stakeholders to provide high-quality technical solutions and product training to drive successful customer outcomes

Link business processes with product technical solutions

Execute delivery methodology to drive projects to completion on time and on budget

Troubleshoot key customer implementation issues and demonstrate ability to drive successful resolution

Prototype and catalog new solutions to fit business pain points

Consult on architecture, indexing, searching, and UI best practices

Expand relationship and product usage within the enterprise segment

Engage in customer calls and on-site visits to help inform and align on product roadmaps for future partnership growth

Aid in the development of detailed action plan, roadmap, prototype, final recommendation document, SM Action Plan and Retrospective

Partner with Success Management and Engagement Manager and other internal roles to understand project goals and deliverables

Create and increase reusability of solutions content (blog posts, workshop tutorials, etc), tooling, and internal projects

Build out tooling and/or collateral to help scale customer engagement

Inform and ultimately evolve product ecosystem by listening and advocating for customers technical needs

Work with Engineering to track and resolve feature requests and bugs

Meet with Product to stay informed on the latest changes to Algolia ecosystem and disseminate internally and to customers as appropriate

REQUIRED SKILLS / EXPERIENCE:

5+ years experience in a customer-facing, deeply technical, and consultative role

Experience working with ecommerce or search technologies

Polished consulting skills

Keen awareness of sensitive client topics

Capability to tactfully navigate and effectively address client messaging and recommendations

Proficient in Javascript/HTML/CSS for the front-end

Proficient in a backend framework (i.e. node, Rails, Django, etc.)

Ability to establish credibility and rapport with Senior Executives and technical and non-technical team members

Excellent analytical and problem solving skills with a history of hands-on project management of large and small initiatives

Ability to prioritize tasks effectively with a high-level of attention to detail

Ability to quickly define dependencies, issues, and outline mitigation plans against risks

Ability to work under tight deadlines while being flexible and responding to changing business and technical conditions

Ability to communicate effectively to both the technology and business communities

Consistent history of business-building successes and passion for results

NICE TO HAVE:

Spanish or Portuguese Speaking

Backend/frontend mobile development

Analytics, A/B testing

Familiarity in relevant verticals: E-commerce/ Search/ CMS/ DXP

Project management experience

Experience within search domain and search-as-a-service companies

Experience at our current stage and beyond (high growth, lots of change and building internal infrastructure)

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 total cash compensation range (base salary and commission) 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.

Remote US: On-Target Earnings Pay Range

$144,000—$206,000 USD

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.

IMPORTANT NOTICE FOR CANDIDATES - Recruitment Fraud Notice

We’ve recently seen an increase in recruitment scams targeting job seekers. To help protect yourself, please keep the following in mind:

Our open positions may appear on third-party job boards, but the best way to apply safely is directly through our careers page.

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READY TO APPLY?

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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