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What they do

Algolia provides search and product discovery as a service. Its postings call it the retrieval intelligence layer. They state the scale: more than 1.7 trillion queries a year for over 18,000 customers, with millisecond latency and 99.999 per cent reliability. The platform turns a company's products, content, and rules into data that people, applications, and AI agents can act on.

What they value

• Speed, which postings state in milliseconds rather than in adjectives.
• Reliability, which postings give as a number.
• Language skills. Several commercial postings name German or Dutch in the title.
• Curiosity about how things work and how they could work better.
• Shaping the approach, not just following it. Sales postings say you help define the sales model.

Where they hire

Of 34 postings, Paris holds 15 and London six. New York holds four and Sydney one. Eight postings are remote: four in the United States, two in Germany, one in Australia, and one in the United Kingdom. This is the highest share of remote work of any Board added in this batch, at about a quarter.

Teams and roles

This is a small board, and the commercial side is about as large as engineering.

• Direct sales: seven postings, plus two in sales development. Several name a language and a region, such as an account executive for the German-speaking and CEMEA markets.
• Research and development: seven postings, the engineering core.
• Production engineering: five postings, which keep the service running at the stated reliability.
• Field engineering: four postings. These are the engineers who work alongside customers.
• Partners and alliances: four postings, including a German-speaking partner manager in Paris.
• People and places: three postings, including a learning and development programme manager in New York.
• Customer solutions: one posting. Information security holds one.

What they look for

Commercial postings ask for the market as much as the skill. The account executive posting asks you to research prospects, adapt the sales approach to each one, expand existing accounts, and close new business in the German-speaking and CEMEA markets, and it says you will help define the sales model rather than inherit it. It expects you to know Algolia itself well enough to explain the benefit to each prospect. The learning and development posting asks for the mindset of a consultant and the discipline of a programme operator, and names the first three areas of work as onboarding, employee listening, and engagement. It asks you to find friction, diagnose root causes, and design scalable solutions with the People, Talent Acquisition, IT, and Workplace teams. Engineering postings sit under research and development, production engineering, and field engineering, which separates building the product from running it and from helping customers use it.