Algolia
Product ManagerStrategicAug 6, 2026

Establish a search behavior learning north-star outcome

Search teams often have signals about relevance without a shared way to turn them into decisions.

More behavioral data can increase confidence for some teams while increasing interpretation work for others.

We have dashboards and rules, but I still can’t tell which change is worth making next.

Lydia Nunes · Search Product Owner

Leads relevance decisions for a marketplace that depends on search to connect buyers and sellers.

What pulls against what

  • faster iteration vs. stronger explainability
  • customer anecdotes vs. reusable evidence
  • mature-account needs vs. broad applicability
  • early learning vs. premature feature commitment

What is at stake

Mature customers are investing more effort in search analysis without converging on a repeatable decision loop. A well-framed bet could determine whether future product work accelerates meaningful relevance improvement

Why Algolia

At Algolia, it often matters because customer learning loops can shape the quality of discovery experiences over time.

Written for

Discovery-led product managerSearch relevance strategistExperimentation-minded PM

This is the setup. The work is inside.

Running it puts you in the room: the full situation and its constraints, stakeholders who push back in their own words, and the decisions that are yours to make. What you produce becomes a Day One Plan — work you can show someone instead of describing.