Senior Technical Onboarding & Engagement Manager

Algolia is the retrieval intelligence layer that turns intent into trusted, decision-grade outcomes. Powering more than 1.7 trillion queries a year for over 18,000 customers with millisecond latency and 99.999% reliability, we are the recognized leader for Search and Product Discovery by top industry analyst firms. The Algolia platform turns a company's products, content, and business rules into data that humans, applications and AI agents can act upon. The result is trusted customer experiences with stronger conversions for measurable business impact.

Algolia’s Engagement Management Practice plays a critical role in helping customers successfully adopt Algolia and realize value from their investment. We partner with technical and business leaders throughout the onboarding journey to transform customer objectives into structured implementation programs and guide organizations from initial mobilization through successful production launch.

As a Senior Technical Onboarding & Engagement Manager, you will lead a portfolio of complex and strategic customer onboarding programs, owning delivery from pre-to-post sales transition through production launch and handover. You will bring together customer stakeholders, Solutions Architects, Business Consultants, Engineering teams, and external implementation partners to establish a clear delivery strategy, maintain execution momentum, manage dependencies, and drive accountability toward measurable outcomes.

This is a highly autonomous, customer-facing role for someone comfortable operating at the intersection of technical implementation, project leadership, and customer strategy. You will be expected to navigate ambiguity, anticipate delivery risks, lead complex escalations, and make sound decisions when customer objectives, technical constraints, timelines, and business priorities compete.

Beyond your individual customer portfolio, you will help strengthen how Algolia delivers onboarding at scale. You will identify recurring challenges across engagements, improve delivery methodologies and tooling, share reusable approaches, and mentor others across the Engagement Management Practice.

Your Role Will Consist of:

• Partners with Account Executives and Solution Engineers on a structured pre-to-post sales handoff, validating scope, customer objectives, success criteria, resource commitments, implementation readiness, and any delivery risks.
• Defining AI Search requirements and detailed project plans in collaboration with Professional Services teams.
• Own a portfolio of strategic customer onboarding programs from mobilization through production launch, establishing delivery strategy, governance, milestones, dependencies, success criteria and contingen