Director, Product Design (AI Experience)

AlphaSense; New York (NY); On-site; USD 224,000 - 308,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Performance-based bonus

Equity

Generous benefits

Job summary

AlphaSense in New York is seeking a Director or Senior Director of Product Design to own the AI-native experience, leading the UX for an agentic, data-dense product. You will shape the design vision, set craft standards, and guide a small team across product, design, and engineering to deliver cohesive experiences.

You will prototype in code, contribute to a reusable design system, and mentor designers while partnering with cross-functional stakeholders to align on strategy and impact.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in product design at technical, product-driven companies.
• 3+ years in people management preferred.
• Experience shipping in data-dense or expert-user domains.

Responsibilities

• Own the design vision for the AI experience and lead a small team.
• Collaborate with Product and Engineering to raise the bar.
• Prototype in code and with real data to influence surface design.
• Contribute to a design system rebuild that is code- and AI-readable.
• Coach and grow senior designers and maintain high craft standards.
• Communicate proposals with customer evidence and business outcomes.

Skills

Design leadership

AI-native product design

Prototyping in code

Team leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

Tools

React

Job description

Director, Product Design (AI Experience)

New York, New York, United States; Remote - United States

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.

The acquisition of Tegus by AlphaSense in 2024 advances our shared mission to empower professionals to make smarter decisions through AI-driven market intelligence. Together, AlphaSense and Tegus will accelerate growth, innovation, and content expansion, with complementary product and content capabilities that enable users to unearth even more comprehensive insights from thousands of content sets. Our platform is trusted by over 6,000 enterprise customers, including a majority of the S&P 500. Founded in 2011, AlphaSense is headquartered in New York City with more than 2,000 employees across the globe and offices in the U.S., U.K., Finland, India, Singapore, Canada, and Ireland. Come join us!

About the Role:

We’re hiring a design leader to own the experience of AlphaSense’s most important frontier: the AI-native, agentic product our customers use to build on proprietary financial data.

AlphaSense is shifting from a research library into an end-to-end workflow platform: a "super analyst" with agentic, computer-use capabilities that lets analysts go from question to discovery to synthesis to finished work product (dashboards, decks, models, generated outputs) without leaving the platform. It’s an enormous opportunity, and today the experience is fragmented: years of incremental features, two search paradigms that don’t yet converge, no self-service onboarding, and a wide spectrum of AI fluency across our users.

You will own the design vision for the AI experience and lead a small team to ship it. You’ll set a clear point of view on where the UX is going, collaborate with Product and Engineering while constructively challenging decisions to raise the bar, and turn an ambiguous, cross-team problem space into a coherent, high-quality, trustworthy product.

This is a player-coach role: like all of our directors, you’ll lead a small team of senior designers while staying hands-on with the craft. We’re open to hiring at Director or Senior Director, depending on scope and experience (see Levels below), with a preference for candidates located in NYC, in a similar time zone, or able to travel.

Why this role matters

At AlphaSense, design is a core driver of how we win. As we build an AI-native platform, the quality of our user experience will define how effectively customers can navigate complexity, build conviction, and make high-stakes financial decisions with confidence.

In this role, you will set that standard through the AI experience you shape, the team you grow, and the craft bar you hold across the product.

What You’ll Do:

• Set the UX direction for the core AI / agentic experience: a clear, opinionated vision for how analysts work with AI on high-stakes financial decisions, and a sequenced path from today’s product to that north star.
• Lead through influence and craft: partner with an SVP of Product and multiple PMs (across NY and the UK), advocating for the best experience while working through business goals, timelines, and technical constraints to decide the real first step.
• Solve the hard, data-dense UX problems: malleable UI with sensible defaults for hedge funds and banks (without overwhelming them), taming information overload, trust and transparency in AI-mediated workflows (citations, confidence, control, reversibility), and cohesion across surfaces.
• Stay hands-on: prototype in code and with real data, contribute directly to the highest-leverage surfaces, and set the craft bar by doing the work, not just reviewing it.
• Raise the bar for AI-native design: define how AI shows up as a first-party capability across the product, not just in one agentic pane.
• Help evolve our foundations: contribute to a design system being rebuilt to be code- and AI-readable.
• Coach, grow, and care for a small team of senior designers: modeling the craft, giving sharp feedback, and creating the conditions for them to own outcomes end-to-end.
• Hire and level thoughtfully as the team grows, keeping the org flat and the talent bar high.
• Multiply the team’s impact through operating mechanisms (UX audits, opportunity maps, product narratives, design reviews, and clear quality bars) rather than personal output alone.
• Communicate persuasively upward, including to VP/C-level, grounding proposals in customer evidence and business outcomes.

Who You Are:

• A senior product-design leader with 10+ years of relevant design experience at technical and product-driven companies (3+ years in people management preferred), and a track record of owning a major product area’s experience and shipping it, ideally in complex, data-dense, or expert-user domains.
• Strong, well-argued opinions held with humility: you shape direction and create healthy friction, and you update your view when the evidence changes.
• Genuine AI-native product judgment: not just content generation, but designing for trust, control, and workflow transformation in agentic and probabilistic systems.
• Hands-on craft and technical fluency: comfortable prototyping in code (React / modern front-end an advantage) and using AI tools in your workflow; credible to designers and engineers alike.
• People leadership: evidence you can model, coach, and care for a team, not only align stakeholders. (For candidates newer to formal management, we’ll look for strong player-coach signals and a real motivation to develop others.)
• Excellent communication and collaboration with both technical and non-technical partners, and comfort operating in ambiguity across teams.
• Curiosity about (or experience in) financial services, fintech, or other high-stakes professional domains. Domain expertise is a strong plus; a serious, humble approach to ramping into it is essential.

For base compensation, we set standard ranges for all roles based on function and level 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 candidate experience/expertise and may vary from the amounts listed below.

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

Base Compensation Range

$224,000 - $308,000 USD

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.