Staff Product Designer, AlphaSense
Design Systems
$181-221k
2 days a week in office
Market intelligence and search platform
Be an early applicant
Market intelligence and search platform
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$181-221k
2 days a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
AlphaSense's mission is to organize the world’s business information and leverage technology to enable companies to make smarter, faster, and more confident decisions.
Role
Who you are
- Expertise in visual hierarchy, layout, and information architecture
- Thorough knowledge of using and/or building design systems to ensure consistency and efficiency in product development
- Evangelize a holistic approach to user experience design with a deep understanding of product vision and objectives
- Seasoned user research skills and experience with relevant methodologies
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work well both independently and in a team
- A forward-thinking and inquisitive individual eager to push the boundaries of product design and create cutting-edge experiences
- Stays up-to-date with market trends and technological advancements to ensure that designs are relevant and innovative
- Always curious and eager to learn about complex topics and workflows and able to get up to speed quickly
- At least 4 years of experience designing digital products
- A bachelor’s degree or higher in design, computer science, information sciences, psychology, human factors, or human-computer interaction preferred
- A professional portfolio of product-focused design work demonstrating your intentional design decisions, thoughtfulness of your process, and the breadth of your skills
- High proficiency in interaction design, information architecture, and at least one more UX competency: user research, visual design, or service design
- Proficient using design tools such as Figma, and design systems
- Success at scale in Consumer and/or B2B products
What the job involves
- Reports to: Principal Product Designer
- The AlphaSense Product Design team comprises talented product designers, UX specialists, and research professionals based in the US, UK, Finland, and India
- We’re a detail-oriented, strategic-minded group dedicated to creating engaging user experiences that deliver real results
- We base our designs on a deep understanding of user behavior, market trends, and performance metrics, ensuring that our work drives meaningful impact for our clients, which range from Fortune 1000 companies to leading financial institutions around the globe
- Our commitment to data-driven decision-making and continuous improvement ensures that we stay at the forefront of our field and deliver the best possible user experiences
- As the Staff Product Designer for Design Systems, you will drive the overall design vision and strategy, foster innovation, and ensure consistency and excellence in design execution
- You will help us evolve our current design system to more effectively empower our product teams to deliver high-quality experiences at scale across our wide product landscape
- We are looking for someone who loves hands-on design work but also engages in strategic conversations to shape our solutions and products, as this role partner with product designers performing project work
- You will be expected to own the entire design process from research to UI execution while working iteratively based on internal and customer feedback through transparency and inclusion
- You’ll work closely with a global, cross-functional team to bring new features to market and help define the future of our product’s design language, solidifying our position as a leader in market intelligence through AI-driven search
- As a thought leader in our design team, you’ll play a crucial role in driving the success of our product
- You’ll collaborate with product design, engineering, and cross-functional partners to create innovative experiences that meet the needs and exceed the expectations of our customers
- This is an exciting opportunity to make a real impact and shape the future of our product offerings
- Craft exceptional and consistent UI patterns, components, tokens, and other design system components at speed and scale and ensure their coded implementations are aligned
- Provide design leadership on standardizing component definition, usage guidelines, tooling, and articulate the why—and guide designers and engineers in their use of components and patterns, and enable everyone’s participation in the design system
- Ensure the highest design quality, craftsmanship, and usability standards are upheld throughout the product development lifecycle. Establish and enforce design governance processes to maintain consistency, coherence, and brand integrity
- Develop in collaboration with the Principal Product Designers the strategic directions of the AlphaSense product UI, proactively identify opportunities, guide the development of design vision, principles and priorities aligned with company goals
- Partner with the Product Design Team, Engineering, and other cross-functional partners to define and drive a transformation of all our products’ user interfaces to be high-quality cohesive experiences with comprehensive attention to visual and interaction details
- Deliver key user insights that lead to innovative design solutions by developing a thorough understanding of our customers through quantitative and qualitative data and research
- Stay informed about industry trends, emerging technologies, and best practices in product design, user experience, and design leadership. Share knowledge and insights with the team and advocate for innovative design approaches and tools
Our take
Manual research can be a serious pain : financial analysts spend hours every week searching through PDFs one keyword at a time, just to find a single usable insight. To remedy this, AlphaSense has built a smart search engine that slashes research time for analysts, using thousands of sources and a semantic indexing layer that can effectively query finance-specific language.
As a disruptor and market leader in this field AlphaSense has few direct competitors, being most closely compared to Wolfram Alpha or LexisNexis. It helps that its tools are undoubtedly effective and valued by knowledge professionals: the company counts about 85% of the S&P 100 as customers and is trusted by J.P.Morgan, Microsoft, Credit Suisse and Google, among other major enterprises.
Having raised a large amount of funding over 2022 and 2023, AlphaSense has moved quickly to double down on its expansion in European markets, opening an office in Berlin to support this. With 2024 seeing investment from Singaporean EDBI, it is now setting its sights on the Asia-Pacific region. As business intelligence will remain key for enterprises as they compete for market share, AlphaSense is well-placed for additional future growth.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
13% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 11 rounds)
Jun 2024
$650m
LATE VC
Sep 2023
$150m
SERIES E
Total funding: $1.3bn
Company benefits
- Work from home opportunities
Company HQ
Union Square, New York, NY
Leadership
Jaakko Kokko
(CEO)Co-founder of Silecs (materials used in the microelectronics industry).
Raj Neervannan
(CTO)Experienced executive. Previously CTO at Mastek and ChoicePoint, and CEO at Framesoft. Has an MBA from Wharton.
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