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VP, Brand Marketing
Algolia
USA (Hybrid)Full time$265K/yr – $300K/yr
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VP, Brand Marketing
USA (Hybrid)
$265K/yr – $300K/yrDirector/Executive10+ years expFull time
Posted 1 day ago
Job Summary
Own and scale Algolia's global brand with end-to-end responsibility for strategy, campaigns, and a high-performing creative organization that drives brand equity and revenue-aligned impact.
- Lead cross-functional brand activations and measurement that tie to pipeline and growth
- Build and manage in-house creative talent and external agencies for scalable output
Job Description
Responsibilities
- Develop and own Algolia's global brand strategy, positioning, voice, and visual identity, ensuring alignment to GTM strategy and adherence across all segments, verticals, regions, and channels.
- Lead the planning and execution of brand campaigns and activations to produce measurable increases in brand awareness and meaningful impact to pipeline and revenue growth.
- Build, grow, and manage an in-house creative team to scale creative output.
- Own and optimize a portfolio of external agency relationships from selection and onboarding through performance management.
- Partner with the CMO and marketing leadership team to define how brand investment supports broader GTM and revenue goals.
- Drive brand adoption and consistency across internal teams, the partner ecosystem, and the customer base, acting as Algolia's internal steward of brand standards.
- Establish brand health metrics and reporting that connect brand performance to business impact, and use that data to prioritize investment.
- Partner closely with Product Marketing, Demand Generation, Field Marketing, and Corporate Communications to ensure brand campaigns are integrated into broader marketing and GTM programs.
- Manage the brand budget, balancing investment across campaigns, agencies, and internal team growth.
- Represent brand at the executive level, communicating strategy, results, and investment needs to senior leadership and cross-functional stakeholders.
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience in brand strategy and brand marketing, with a track record of leading brand activations and campaign execution at global scale.
- Demonstrated success driving measurable increases in brand awareness that connect directly to business/performance outcomes
- Experience building, growing, and managing in-house creative teams from the ground up.
- Extensive experience managing external creative and brand agencies, including scoping, selection, and performance accountability.
- Strong executive communication and collaboration skills, with experience operating as a key member of a marketing leadership team.
- A track record of driving brand adoption across complex, cross-functional organizations — including internal teams, partners, and customers.
- Experience in B2B SaaS marketing is a plus.
- Familiarity with brand tracking and measurement tools, and connecting brand metrics to pipeline/revenue systems
Preferred
- Experience building a brand for a developer-facing, platform, or technical product company.
- Experience leading a brand through a major company milestone (IPO, acquisition, rebrand, or category creation).
- Global/international brand experience, including navigating regional nuance across NA, EMEA, and APAC.
Algolia
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Algolia, the world’s only end-to-end AI Search solution, helps businesses and developers understand their online users and show them exactly what they need. Algolia is the one-stop shop for AI search and works by feeding an array of signals into multiple AI models that understand user intent and surface personalized results that meet business needs. The company uses this deep understanding to create exceptional customer experiences, and to drive revenue growth for customers.Algolia achieves its vision by enabling more than 17,000 customers to build blazing fast and relevant search experiences for their in-app users and/or online visitors by surfacing the desired content instantly and at scale.Algolia was recently named a Leader in the inaugural 2024 Gartner® Magic QuadrantTM for Search and Product Discovery Algolia's journey to leadership is underpinned by its unwavering commitment to three foundational pillars Speed, Ease of Use, and Scale.Algolia is known for its blazing fast speed with results returned in a staggering 1 to 20 milliseconds, Algolia's AI search eclipses industry standards by up to 200-fold, setting a new benchmark for user satisfaction and ROI optimization. The platform's ease of use empowers rapid implementation and effortless integration, Algolia's APIs catalyze swift go-to-market strategies. Augmented by SDKs and a robust code library, the platform streamlines development while offering unparalleled analytics capabilities, ensuring every interaction is finely tuned to perfection. And, as the preeminent hosted search engine globally, Algolia processes a staggering 1.7 trillion searches annually. With an index housing over 30 billion records and operating at an awe-inspiring 99.999% availability, Algolia empowers enterprises to scale unprecedented heights of user-centricity.Founded in 2012 in Paris, the company grew and subsequently moved its headquarters to San Francisco to expand its operations and penetrate the North American market.
Founded in 2012
Palo Alto, California, USA
852 employees (53 in marketing)
66% recommend to a friend
80% CEO approval
Salaries
Posted range
$265K/yr – $300K/yr
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Marketing Team
Marketing Team Size
37 (4% of company)
Median Career Experience
10 years
Median Tenure
4.3 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
1
People
Marketing Leadership
Funding
Total Funding
$334.2M
Last Raise
$150M
Series D, 5 years ago
Funding History
- Jul 2021Series D • $150M
- Oct 2019Series C • $110M
- Sep 2017Secondary Market
Traffic Signals
Monthly Visitors
868K
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$385.9K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
31.1%
Direct
50.2%
Referral
16.2%
Social
1.4%
Paid
1%
Headcount Trend
Current headcount: ~852
