Senior/Staff Product Designer

Overview

A Senior/Staff-level individual contributor role on AlphaSense's Design team, shaping how AI shows up in workflows and driving end-to-end product experiences for market intelligence customers.

What you'll do

• 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.

What you'll need

• 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.
• 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.

Nice to have

• Bonus: experience with React or similar frameworks.
• Experience in financial services, investment workflows, or data-heavy SaaS products.

Details

• Locations: New York, New York, United States; Remote - United States.
• Base compensation range: $160,000 to $260,000 USD, plus potential performance-based bonus, equity, and benefits.