Senior Director, Product Design

2 Months ago • 12 Years + • Product Design • $260,000 PA - $300,000 PA

Job Summary

Job Description

The Senior Director of Product Design at AlphaSense will lead and grow a team of designers, shaping the design vision and strategy for the platform. This role requires collaborating with various teams (Product, Engineering, Marketing) to ensure customer-centric design. Key responsibilities include defining design goals aligned with business objectives, establishing design standards and best practices, fostering a culture of innovation, and driving design thinking into strategic decision-making. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in leading B2B design initiatives and building high-performing design teams within a growth-stage business, with a focus on creating intuitive experiences for navigating large datasets and utilizing AI tools.
Must have:
  • 12+ years digital product design experience
  • 5+ years design leadership experience
  • Experience building & maturing design teams
  • Proficiency in design tools (Adobe Suite, Sketch, Figma)
  • Strong communication & presentation skills
Perks:
  • Performance-based bonus
  • Equity
  • Generous benefits program

Job Details

Location: Remote, US

Reports to: SVP, Head of Product and Design

About AlphaSense:

The world’s most sophisticated companies rely on AlphaSense to remove uncertainty from decision-making. With market intelligence and search built on proven AI, AlphaSense delivers insights that matter from content you can trust. Our universe of public and private content includes equity research, company filings, event transcripts, expert calls, news, trade journals, and clients’ own research content. Our platform is trusted by over 4,000 enterprise customers, including a majority of the S&P 500.

Founded in 2011, AlphaSense is headquartered in New York City with over 1,500 people across the globe and offices in the U.S., U.K., Finland, India, and Singapore. For more information, please visit www.alpha-sense.com.

About the Team: 

The AlphaSense Product Design team is comprised of talented product designers, UX specialists, and research professionals based in the US, UK, Finland, and India. We’re a detail-oriented, strategic-minded group dedicated to creating engaging user experiences that deliver real results. We base our designs on a deep understanding of user behavior, market trends, and performance metrics, ensuring that our work drives meaningful impact for our clients, which range from Fortune 1000 companies to leading financial institutions around the globe. Our commitment to data-driven decision-making and continuous improvement ensures that we stay at the forefront of our field and deliver the best possible user experiences.

About the Role: 

We’re seeking a skilled and passionate Senior Director of Design to join our growing Product Design team. In this role, you will directly influence our ability to modernize and streamline the way institutional investors and companies conduct business and financial research through our all-in-one platform. As one of our most senior design leaders, you will oversee, nurture and grow our design teams focused on the primary product areas of Expert Research, Financial data, and overall user experience and workflow.  

You will collaborate closely with Product, Engineering, and our go-to-market teams to ensure that our Design strategy and execution drives value to our customers and aligns tightly with our brand identity. Some of the key user experience challenges you’ll oversee are creating easy navigation of large bodies of quantitative and qualitative data, devising summary-level waypoints that guide users deep into our content, and automating detailed company research steps using AI tooling.  

Reporting to the SVP of Product, you will partner with C-level executives and other key stakeholders to integrate and embed design thinking into every product design decision we make. You will build, nurture, and inspire a high-velocity and high-performance team, fostering a culture of innovation, ideation, and continuous improvement.  You will roll up your sleeves when necessary, helping to paint a picture of our product vision and coaching our design team in the details of their work. 

Who you are & What You'll bring: 

  • Experience building design organizations, nurturing strong innovation culture, and coaching + growing designers
  • Ability to provide constructive, tangible design feedback and guidance to IC designers 
  • A strong storyteller and the ability to create concepts to illustrate and communicate product and design vision and strategy
  • Experience working in high content consumption environments and creating engaging and easy-to-use UX. 
  • Orientation towards innovation speed, rigor and outcome, including the ability to meet directly with customers, iterate quickly on concepts, and uphold high quality UX as a pillar of excellence
  • Strong product and business strategy intuition

What You’ll Do: 

  • Define and articulate the product design vision, strategy, and goals for your areas; aligning them with the overall business objectives.
  • Lead, grow, and inspire a diverse team of product designers, fostering a culture of creativity, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
  • Partner with C-level executives and other key stakeholders to integrate design thinking into strategic decision-making processes and drive business growth.
  • Establish and maintain design standards, processes, and best practices to ensure consistency, quality, and efficiency across all design initiatives.
  • Drive innovation by exploring emerging technologies, trends, and user behaviors, and leveraging them to create breakthrough design solutions.
  • Advocate for customer-centricity and accessibility, ensuring that our products/services are inclusive and meet the needs of diverse user groups.
  • Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams, including product management, engineering, marketing, and customer support, to deliver cohesive and compelling experiences.

Requirements: 

  • 12+ years experience in designing digital products required, with an emphasis on strategic Product and UX systems thinking
  • 5 years experience in a design leadership role, with experience building and maturing design teams and processes within a growth stage business 
  • Proven track record of leading successful complex B2B design initiatives from concept to launch to iteration, inclusive of setting and hitting quantitative and qualitative success metrics
  • Proficient in design tools such as Adobe Creative Suite, Sketch, Figma, and in creating pragmatic design systems
  • Proficient in interaction design, information architecture, and at least one more UX competency: user research, visual design, or product design
  • Ability to lead design conversations within a team or group context, to reason through complex problems and arrive at elegant solutions in a collaborative way.
  • Excellent communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills with the ability to work cross-functionally with internal partners and external partners alike

AlphaSense is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to a work environment that supports, inspires, and respects all individuals. All employees share in the responsibility for fulfilling AlphaSense’s commitment to equal employment opportunity. AlphaSense does not discriminate against any employee or applicant on the basis of race, color, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, age, religion, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, military or veteran status, disability, or any other non-merit factor. This policy applies to every aspect of employment at AlphaSense, including recruitment, hiring, training, advancement, and termination.

In addition, it is the policy of AlphaSense to provide reasonable accommodation to qualified employees who have protected disabilities to the extent required by applicable laws, regulations, and ordinances where a particular employee works.

Base Compensation Range*:  $260,000 - $300,000

Additional Components: You may also be offered a performance-based bonus, equity, and a generous benefits program.

*For base compensation, we set standard ranges for all US-based roles based on function, level and geographic location, benchmarked against similar stage growth companies and internal comparables. In order to be compliant with local legislation, as well as to provide greater transparency to candidates, we share salary ranges on all job postings regardless of desired hiring location. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors including geographic location as well as candidate experience/expertise and may vary from the amounts listed above.

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