Senior Director of Product Design, AlphaSense
$260-300k
Market intelligence and search platform
Open for applications
Market intelligence and search platform
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$260-300k
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
- We’re seeking a skilled and passionate Senior Director of Design to join our growing Product Design team
- Experience building design organizations, nurturing strong innovation culture, and coaching + growing designers
- Ability to provide constructive, tangible design feedback and guidance to IC designers
- A strong storyteller and the ability to create concepts to illustrate and communicate product and design vision and strategy
- Experience working in high content consumption environments and creating engaging and easy-to-use UX
- Orientation towards innovation speed, rigor and outcome, including the ability to meet directly with customers, iterate quickly on concepts, and uphold high quality UX as a pillar of excellence
- Strong product and business strategy intuition
- 12+ years experience in designing digital products required, with an emphasis on strategic Product and UX systems thinking
- 5 years experience in a design leadership role, with experience building and maturing design teams and processes within a growth stage business
- Proven track record of leading successful complex B2B design initiatives from concept to launch to iteration, inclusive of setting and hitting quantitative and qualitative success metrics
- Proficient in design tools such as Adobe Creative Suite, Sketch, Figma, and in creating pragmatic design systems
- Proficient in interaction design, information architecture, and at least one more UX competency: user research, visual design, or product design
- Ability to lead design conversations within a team or group context, to reason through complex problems and arrive at elegant solutions in a collaborative way
- Excellent communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills with the ability to work cross-functionally with internal partners and external partners alike
What the job involves
- Reports to: SVP, Head of Product and Design
- In this role, you will directly influence our ability to modernize and streamline the way institutional investors and companies conduct business and financial research through our all-in-one platform
- As one of our most senior design leaders, you will oversee, nurture and grow our design teams focused on the primary product areas of Expert Research, Financial data, and overall user experience and workflow
- You will collaborate closely with Product, Engineering, and our go-to-market teams to ensure that our Design strategy and execution drives value to our customers and aligns tightly with our brand identity
- Some of the key user experience challenges you’ll oversee are creating easy navigation of large bodies of quantitative and qualitative data, devising summary-level waypoints that guide users deep into our content, and automating detailed company research steps using AI tooling
- Reporting to the SVP of Product, you will partner with C-level executives and other key stakeholders to integrate and embed design thinking into every product design decision we make
- You will build, nurture, and inspire a high-velocity and high-performance team, fostering a culture of innovation, ideation, and continuous improvement
- You will roll up your sleeves when necessary, helping to paint a picture of our product vision and coaching our design team in the details of their work
- Define and articulate the product design vision, strategy, and goals for your areas; aligning them with the overall business objectives
- Lead, grow, and inspire a diverse team of product designers, fostering a culture of creativity, collaboration, and continuous improvement
- Partner with C-level executives and other key stakeholders to integrate design thinking into strategic decision-making processes and drive business growth
- Establish and maintain design standards, processes, and best practices to ensure consistency, quality, and efficiency across all design initiatives
- Drive innovation by exploring emerging technologies, trends, and user behaviors, and leveraging them to create breakthrough design solutions
- Advocate for customer-centricity and accessibility, ensuring that our products/services are inclusive and meet the needs of diverse user groups
- Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams, including product management, engineering, marketing, and customer support, to deliver cohesive and compelling experiences
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
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 values
- Customer obsession - We measure ourselves against a simple yardstick: do our clients rave about us?
- Passion for product - Building a powerful yet simple and beautiful product is in our DNA
- Results - We value execution and outcomes over appearance and office politics. It’s that simple
- Diversity of perspective - Great ideas come from everywhere and anywhere
- Think big - We believe AlphaSense can change the game, and possibly the world
- Ownership - As owners of AlphaSense, it’s everyone’s job to ensure we do great work - and to always look for opportunities to do better
- Acceleration - We’re a fast-growing and fast-moving company. Do it, iterate, and try again
- Trust - We trust our colleagues to do what’s right and what’s best for the company
- Teamwork - Helping our colleagues succeed always comes first. We are serious about our work - and have fun too
Company HQ
Union Square, New York, NY
Articles
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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