Senior/Staff Product Designer

AlphaSense is a leading company in AI-driven market intelligence, seeking a Staff Product Designer to enhance their product experience. The role involves driving strategic design initiatives and collaborating with cross-functional teams to create intuitive user experiences that align with customer 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

Requirements:

• 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
• Experience in financial services, investment workflows, or data-heavy SaaS products is a plus