[Hiring] Director, Product Design (AI Experience) @AlphaSense

Role Description

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
• 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, with a preference for candidates located in NYC, in a similar time zone, or able to travel.

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.

Qualifications

• A senior product-design leader with 10+ years of relevant design experience at technical and product-driven companies (3+ years in people management preferred)
• 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
• Genuine AI-native product judgment
• Hands-on craft and technical fluency
• People leadership experience
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills
• Curiosity about (or experience in) financial services, fintech, or other high-stakes professional domains

Requirements

• Set the UX direction for the core AI / agentic experience
• Lead through influence and craft
• Solve the hard, data-dense UX problems
• Stay hands-on: prototype in code and with real data
• Raise the bar for AI-native design
• Help evolve our foundations
• Coach, grow, and care for a small team of senior designers
• Hire and level thoughtfully as the team grows
• Multiply the team’s impact through operating mechanisms
• Communicate persuasively upward

Benefits

• Base Compensation Range: $224,000 — $308,000 USD
• Performance-based bonus
• Equity
• A generous benefits program