Senior/Staff Product Designer
AlphaSense · New York, NY · 3 wk ago
Art & Creative$160k–$260k/yrFull-time
About the role
We are seeking a Staff Product Designer to join our growing team and play a key role in shaping the future of AlphaSense’s product experience. This is a Staff-level individual contributor role, where you’ll lead through design craft, systems thinking, and a deep understanding of our customers’ workflows.
Responsibilities
- Drive strategic design initiatives—translating complex, data-rich problems into intuitive, high-quality experiences that feel tailored to how our customers actually work.
- Bring clarity to ambiguity, define end-to-end workflows, and ensure our product experiences are cohesive, scalable, and grounded in real user needs.
- Partner closely with Product, Engineering, and AI teams to shape how capabilities come together into meaningful user experiences—from early concept through execution.
- Balance user needs, business goals, and technical constraints, ensuring we deliver experiences that are not only functional, but differentiated through quality and usability.
- Act as a multiplier, mentoring other designers, contributing to our design systems and patterns, and helping raise the bar for craft and consistency across the product.
- Define and shape how we deliver AI-native workflows, ensuring they are intuitive, trustworthy, and seamlessly integrated into our customers’ day-to-day work.
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. Bonus if you have experience with React or similar frameworks.
- 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.
Qualifications
- Experience in financial services, investment workflows, or data-heavy SaaS products is a plus.
Skills
- Experience in financial services, investment workflows, or data-heavy SaaS products is a plus.
Benefits
- Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors including candidate experience/expertise and may vary from the amounts listed below.
Pay
- $160,000 - $260,000 USD
Schedule
- Not specified