Senior Developer Programs Manager

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 enables every company to create world-class Search and Discovery experiences with an API-first approach. Performance and Scalability is at the heart of our mission: we power 1.5 trillion searches a year, for 17K+ customers all over the world. We see Developer Experience as a key element of our offering: we maintain high-quality SDKs for a dozen languages and platforms. We value Grit, Trust, Candor, Care and Humility. If you're a problem solver, able to think outside the box and eager to nurture others and learn from them, then this is your challenge!

The Developer Experience team aims to help Algolia grow as an agile business. To achieve that, we are building a powerful & flexible platform empowering internal feature teams to release, track & monetize new products while ensuring that customers understand their usage and control their billing. 

We are looking for a Senior Developer Program Manager to own the developer programs of the DX Team. Creating and running programs that enable developers to accelerate their usage of/value from Algolia. This individual will partner closely with product management, engineering managers, program managers and executive leadership to execute and align on complex technical programs. 

This is not a project management or scrum master role. The right candidate will have a bias toward building and scaling programs, engaging with developers, and experimenting with new program models. 

YOUR ROLE WILL CONSIST OF:

• Owning and scaling Algolia’s developer-facing programs — including DocSearch, Startup Program, SwagSearch, and future initiatives — to deepen engagement and expand reach within the developer community.
• Designing and operationalizing new programs that help developers discover, adopt, and succeed with Algolia’s products, from concept through launch and ongoing iteration.
• Supporting and celebrating developers in communities across Slack, Discord, and Reddit, while fostering partnerships with startups and open-source maintainers to expand Algolia’s ecosystem
• Collaborating cross-functionally with Product, Engineering, Marketing, and Customer Success to align program objectives, surface developer insights, and amplify success stories.
• Establishing clear KPIs and OKRs for each program, analyzing engagement and performance data to inform decisions and demonstrate business impact (i.e. inception to beta to release to operating at scale) 
• Managing program infrastructure and workflows, including eligibility logic, automation, and tracking systems to ensure scalability and efficiency.

YOU MIGHT BE A FIT IF YOU HAVE:

• 3-6 years experience building and scaling developer-facing programs, such as startup initiatives or open-source partnerships, within SaaS environments 
• Experience working with cross-functional teams such as Product, Engineering, and Marketing - define program goals and turn developer insights into actionable improvements 
• A data-informed approach to program management, with the ability to define KPIs, analyze adoption and engagement metrics, and use findings to support project goals  
• Good understanding of how an API (like Algolia) is implemented and what is means for someone’s software development lifecycle from conception to delivery
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including clear articulation of business impact and technical constraints tailored to the audience
• Experience at our current stage and beyond ($200M-$500M ARR range, high growth, lots of change and building internal infrastructure).

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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.

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