SeniorStaff Design Engineer
Job Summary
About AlphaSense:
The worlds most sophisticated companies rely on AlphaSense to remove uncertainty from decision-making. With market intelligence and search built on proven AI AlphaSense delivers insights that matter from content you can trust. Our universe of public and private content includes equity research company filings event transcripts expert calls news trade journals and clients own research content.
The acquisition of Tegus by AlphaSense in 2024 advances our shared mission to empower professionals to make smarter decisions through AI-driven market intelligence. Together AlphaSense and Tegus will accelerate growth innovation and content expansion with complementary product and content capabilities that enable users to unearth even more comprehensive insights from thousands of content sets. Our platform is trusted by over 6000 enterprise customers including a majority of the S&P 500. Founded in 2011 AlphaSense is headquartered in New York City with more than 2000 employees across the globe and offices in the U.S. U.K. Finland India Singapore Canada and Ireland. Come join us!
About the Team
AlphaSenses Design team is a strategic driver of product differentiation shaping how the worlds leading companies make high-stakes decisions with confidence. We believe great UX is not just about usability its about deeply understanding our customers workflows and building experiences that feel tailored intelligent and indispensable to how they work.
As AlphaSense evolves into an AI-native platform Design plays a critical role in defining how AI shows up in real workflows from search to synthesis to decision-making. We partner closely with Product and Engineering to turn complex data and advanced AI capabilities into cohesive intuitive and high-quality experiences.
Our team is a global group of craftspeople systems thinkers and innovators who care deeply about quality velocity and impact. We operate with a strong sense of ownership a bias toward action and a commitment to raising the bar for what great product design looks like in an AI-first world.
About the Role
We are seeking Senior and Staff Design Engineers to play a key role in shaping the future of AlphaSenses product experience. This is a senior individual contributor role where youll lead through craft systems thinking and technical excellence building AI-powered experiences that feel tailored intelligent and essential to our customers workflows.
You will operate at the intersection of design engineering and product strategy translating complex data-rich problems into high-quality production-ready experiences. You wont just prototype ideas; youll define how they are built scaled and experienced in the product.
As a senior member of the Design team youll act as a multipliermentoring others guiding technical and design decisions and strengthening the connection between user needs business goals and engineering realities.
Why this role matters
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 this role you will help define that standardthrough the systems you build the experiences you ship and the team you help elevate.
Who You Are
- 10 years of experience in product design design/UX/front-end engineering design systems or a related discipline.
- A bachelors degree or higher. A degree in design computer science information sciences psychology or human-computer interaction is preferred.
- Hands-on experience with modern front-end technologies (e.g. HTML/CSS JavaScript/TypeScript React) and evolving design systems.
- Experience building AI and agentic experiences and you are already leveraging AI to speed up and augment your end-to-end design and development process.
- Expertise with modern AI technologies and ability to apply them to design problems (e.g. MCP Claude Code Codex Skills).
- Experience shipping production-ready experiences and influencing technical and design choices across teams.
- Strong understanding of user-centered design principles end-to-end customer workflows and the ability to turn new users into habitual users.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
What Youll Do
- Create high-fidelity coded prototypes and interaction models that bring complex AI-powered workflows to life and clearly communicate product direction.
- Own high-impact initiatives from concept through production shipping experiences that reflect strong design thinking technical rigor and a deep understanding of customer workflows.
- Lead technical design discussions make architectural decisions and guide cross-team implementation efforts.
- Advance AlphaSenses design system as a core piece of product infrastructuredefining scalable patterns enabling consistency and accelerating teams building across AI-native experiences.
- Collaborate closely with product managers engineers and other stakeholders to research and evaluate user requirements translate them into effective designs and ensure that the final product meets both user and business needs.
- Collaborate with engineering teams during development advocating for design quality and user experience by championing design fidelity and attention to detail throughout the development lifecycle.
- Drive cross-functional alignment by helping teams navigate tradeoffs between technical constraints business goals and user experience to deliver high-quality outcomes.
- AI-First Execution
- Apply an AI-first mindset to how you design and buildleveraging modern AI tooling agent-driven workflows and code-based prototyping to accelerate iteration and unlock new product possibilities.
- Partner with product and engineering teams to shape how intelligent capabilities are integrated into real user workflows ensuring outputs are transparent trustworthy and usable.
AlphaSense is an equal-opportunity employer. We are committed to a work environment that supports inspires and respects all individuals. All employees share in the responsibility for fulfilling AlphaSenses commitment to equal employment opportunity. AlphaSense does not discriminate against any employee or applicant on the basis of race color sex (including pregnancy) national origin age religion marital status sexual orientation gender identity gender expression military or veteran status disability or any other non-merit factor. This policy applies to every aspect of employment at AlphaSense including recruitment hiring training advancement and termination.
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