Senior/Staff Product Designer

AlphaSense; Helsinki; Hybrid; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation support

Private healthcare services

Vacation days up front

Gym room and gaming room

Lunch benefit

Home internet and remote work gear

Job summary

AlphaSense is seeking a Staff Product Designer to lead the product experience through craft, systems thinking, and deep understanding of customer workflows. This staff-level IC role focuses on design strategy, cross-functional collaboration, and translating insights into compelling product direction.

You will contribute to the design system, mentor designers, and stay ahead of AI-enabled interactions, shaping scalable interfaces and ensuring usability across the product.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in product design.
• Strong portfolio demonstrating excellence in interaction design and systems thinking.
• Experience designing end-to-end customer workflows and data-rich products.
• Proficient with design and prototyping tools; able to communicate ideas through flows and high-fidelity prototypes.
• Working knowledge of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript; React a plus.

Responsibilities

• Deliver high-fidelity prototypes and end-to-end experiences that align with product vision.
• Translate customer insights into actionable product direction.
• Define and drive design strategy for key initiatives.
• Collaborate with product managers, engineers, and stakeholders to create scalable, intuitive experiences.
• Contribute to the design system and elevate team design quality.

Skills

Design systems

Interaction design

Prototyping

Cross-functional collaboration

AI tooling in design

Frontend basics

Mentoring designers

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor's degree in related field

Job description

About the Role

We are seeking a Staff Product Designer to join our growing team and play a key role in shaping the future of AlphaSense’s product experience. This is a Staff-level individual contributor role, where you’ll lead through design craft, systems thinking, and a deep understanding of our customers’ workflows.

Responsibilities

• Deliver high-fidelity prototypes, interaction models, and end-to-end experiences that clearly communicate product vision and drive strategic alignment across stakeholders.
• Transform customer insights from interviews, surveys, and usability testing into actionable product direction, championing customer empathy throughout the product development lifecycle.
• Define and drive design strategy for key initiatives, ensuring alignment with company goals and a clear connection between user needs, business outcomes, and product direction.
• Partner closely with product managers, engineers, and cross-functional stakeholders to translate complex requirements into intuitive, high-quality user experiences that scale.
• Deliver exceptionally crafted solutions while elevating design quality across the team by contributing to the design system, evolving patterns, and shaping best practices.
• Design for systems, not just screens, working within and advancing a growing design system to ensure consistency, scalability, and cohesion across the product.
• Stay at the forefront of industry trends, emerging technologies, and AI capabilities, applying new ideas to continuously improve product experiences.
• Communicate complex ideas with clarity and influence, ensuring alignment and momentum across cross‑functional partners.
• Collaborate closely with engineering throughout development, advocating for design quality and ensuring a high bar for execution, usability, and attention to detail.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in product design, with a strong portfolio demonstrating excellence in interaction design, systems thinking, and delivering high-quality, user-centered experiences.
• Bachelor’s degree in Product Design, Graphic Design, Human‑Computer Interaction, Computer Science, or a related field.
• Deep expertise in designing end-to-end customer workflows, with a proven ability to simplify complex, data-rich problems into intuitive, habit‑forming product experiences.
• Highly proficient in design and prototyping tools, with the ability to communicate ideas through flows, systems, and high-fidelity prototypes.
• Strong collaboration with engineering teams, with working knowledge of modern web technologies such as HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. Bonus if you have experience with React or similar frameworks.
• Actively leverage AI to augment your design process from research and ideation to prototyping and iteration, and continuously build fluency with modern AI tools and workflows.
• Strong awareness of emerging AI and search technologies, with curiosity and initiative to apply new capabilities to real product experiences.
• Proven ability to lead complex projects end-to-end, navigate ambiguity, and drive clarity across cross‑functional teams.
• Demonstrated experience mentoring and developing other designers, helping raise the bar for craft, systems thinking, and execution.
• Excellent communication and storytelling skills, with the ability to influence both technical and non‑technical stakeholders.
• Highly curious, thoughtful, and driven, able to quickly build context, form strong points of view, and push work forward.
• Experience in financial services, investment workflows, or data-heavy SaaS products is a plus.

What We Offer

• Playing a part in the story of a fast growing company.
• Interesting career opportunities and training.
• Relocation support for single employees, couples and families.
• While we do have an office in Helsinki, we’re a distributed company. We value outcomes over time, and offer flexible working arrangements. We usually meet at the office once a week.
• Private healthcare services from Terveystalo.
• 2 weeks of vacation granted up front, and possibility to use vacation days as they accrue.
• Access to gym room, gaming room, free parking near the office, mobile phone, lunch benefit, mobile plan, home internet, remote work equipment, and many more.

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.