Director, Product Design (AI Experience)

Overview

Lead the design of AlphaSense's AI-native, agentic product experience, owning the UX direction for how analysts use AI on proprietary financial data, and leading a small team of senior designers to ship it.

What you'll do

• Set the UX direction for the core AI / agentic experience, with a clear, opinionated vision 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) to decide the real first step, balancing the best experience against business goals, timelines and technical constraints.
• Solve hard, data-dense UX problems: malleable UI with sensible defaults for hedge funds and banks, 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.
• Define how AI shows up as a first-party capability across the product, not just in one agentic pane.
• Help evolve the 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 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 team impact through operating mechanisms such as UX audits, opportunity maps, product narratives, design reviews and clear quality bars.
• Communicate persuasively upward, including to VP/C-level, grounded in customer evidence and business outcomes.

What you'll need

• 10+ years of relevant design experience at technical and product-driven companies.
• Track record of owning a major product area's experience and shipping it, ideally in complex, data-dense or expert-user domains.
• Genuine AI-native product judgment: designing for trust, control and workflow transformation in agentic and probabilistic systems.
• Hands-on craft and technical fluency, including prototyping in code and using AI tools in your workflow.
• People leadership: evidence you can model, coach and care for a team.
• Excellent communication and collaboration with technical and non-technical partners, comfortable operating in ambiguity across teams.
• Curiosity about (or experience in) financial services, fintech, or other high-stakes professional domains.

Nice to have

• 3+ years in people management.
• React / modern front-end experience.
• Domain expertise in financial services or fintech.

Details

• Level: Director or Senior Director, depending on scope and experience.
• Location: New York, New York, United States; Remote - United States. Preference for candidates located in NYC, in a similar time zone, or able to travel.
• Base compensation range: $224,000 to $308,000 USD.
• May also be offered a performance-based bonus, equity, and a benefits program.