Alexandre COLLIN

As part of the Business Strategy & Optimization team, I provide strategic consulting services focused on optimizing Search and Discovery experiences for customers, partners, and prospects. Strategic Leadership --- - Pioneered Algolia's Search UX Center of Excellence - Lead a cross-functional group of specialists on sharing Search UX best practices, influencing without direct authority - Developed comprehensive UX resources and Academy training pathways for partners, Go-to-Market teams and customers Client Consulting --- - Deliver tailored strategy and optimization consulting for diverse use cases and industries - Enable hundreds of Algolia customers and dozens of partners to implement effective AI Search & Discovery solutions: via heuristic analysis, and enablement resources. - Translate complex technical capabilities into business value for stakeholders Product Development & Innovation --- - Create solution guides enabling customers to implement advanced capabilities (eg. "MerchByGroup merchandising functionality", Sponsored product in Retail Media) without requiring out-of-box features, accelerating value delivery. - Advise R&D teams on emerging customer trends and requirements: relay customer feedback and suggest product improvements - Collaborate with the GenAI team to develop and experiment with new AI-driven experiences -> Empowering businesses to harness the full potential of AI-driven search by translating Algolia's cutting-edge technology into intuitive user experiences that solve real business challenges across industries and use cases.

Joined the Frontend engineering core team that develops InstantSearch & AutocompleteJS, our industry leading, open-source Search UI Libraries. Those library powers thousands of search experiences on the Internet and are regularly referenced and used by competitors and partners. - Spearheaded the enhancement of the InstantSearch library (released an overhauled React InstantSearch that has since become our most popular library), engaging with developers for user-centric improvements. - Led the creation of the Algolia Ecom UI Kit, influencing numerous customers in building innovative Search & Discovery solutions. - Developed technical solution guides to accelerate the implementation of state-of-the-art search experiences leveraging Algolia's frontend libraries

• Led cross-functional initiatives to drive SLG/PLG growth under the CSO office at Algolia. • Spearheaded the creation of business-focused Solutions guides to accelerate Algolia's integration in specific use-cases. • Collaborated on projects like the Inspiration library and Algolia Code exchange to enhance customer experience.

- Managed the EMEA Solutions Engineering and Architecture teams across our London and Paris offices (~16 people, 2 directs) - The team was in charge of providing technical guidance on high complexity implementations: advising customer on the application of natural language processing, headless cloud architecture & AI to optimize search relevance algorithms & improve engine performance

Joined Algolia as the 1st Solutions Engineer, and 4th employee globally. Delivered strategic and technical expertise to mid-market and Fortune 500 enterprise clients, solving complex business challenges through Algolia's industry-leading search-as-you-type Search technology. Specialized in optimizing search relevance, performance metrics, and enhancing overall search user experience. - Managed end-to-end customer success across the entire journey from initial discovery calls through onboarding to ongoing account management - Maintained a high-value client portfolio primarily consisting of Fortune 500 companies, representing approximately $4M in ARR - Developed custom PoCs, client-specific applications, and demo assets using JavaScript/CSS, and modern JS frameworks across multiple verticals including Ecommerce/Retail, Media, and SaaS/B2B platforms - Led team growth from 1 to 12 Solutions Engineers as the most senior team member, overseeing hiring initiatives, implementing training programs, and providing technical mentorship for the team, and new GTM team hires

Integrated to the team in charge of the "mobile security" business at SFR (2nd biggest French mobile operator), I got the chance to improve my skills in project management and learn the tricks of the trade of product management. - Writing of high level and detailed specifications (including story-boards/userflows and UI mockups/wireframes) to create new product features and improve existing ones. - Communication and coordination with internal teams (including social communication team, web portal team, user support, finance & operations, ...) and external partners like communication agencies to support product's lifecycle: pre-launch, introduction and growth stages. - Coordination with McAfee Engineer teams (in India) to fix bugs and develop new features. - In charge of the advertising campaign (displayed ~ 1 million time) optimized for mobile devices: wording, graphical design, monitoring - Marketing research, benchmark and competitors review, qualitative and quantitative study Website: http://sfr.fr/securitemobile ‡ Keywords ‡ Product's life-cycle management, smartphone security, privacy, e-marketing, market research, benchmarking, Project management, advertising campaign

Attached to the team in charge of development of SFR APIs, I improved both my technical and project management skills by working closely with the engineering and architecture teams to identify requirements, write and review product specs (High and Low Level Definition)... Furthermore, I was involved in the product management lifecycle and all marketing issues where I worked to improve the developers' user experience and so increase the use of the service. - Conception / Development / Promotion of innovative Web2.0 Proof of concepts using SFR API: e.g ThinksWall (http://bit.ly/thinkswall), mobile location based services... - Daily monitoring and management of ongoing projects: improvement of the platform architecture, portal and tools - Enhancement on the core backend developed in Java - Writing and review of functional and technical specs about RESTful implementation, overhaul of the back-office, OAuth, new enabler implementation, ... - Specification of a new design/usability for the website and the backoffice: account management, stats, provisioning. Other: - Involved in the development of security solution to make APIs stronger. (Working closely with the Security Team) - Marketing: blog publications, community management, SEO, etc. - Writing of technical documentation and support Level 2 and 3 to Users Website: http://api.sfr.fr ‡ Keywords ‡ API, Web Service, Web-marketing, Project management, SDP, PHP5, Java 6, UML, HTML, CSS, MySQL, AJAX / Jquery, Debian, SOAP, RESTful, OAuth, Patent, Security, SEO