[Remote] Director, Product Design (AI Experience)

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. AlphaSense is hiring a design leader to own the vision and experience of its AI-native, agentic financial-data product. The role combines hands-on product design with leading a small team, partnering across Product and Engineering, and shaping a coherent, trustworthy workflow platform for analysts.

Responsibilities

• Set the UX direction for the core AI / agentic experience: a clear, opinionated vision for how analysts work with AI on high-stakes financial decisions, and a sequenced path from today’s product to that north star
• Lead through influence and craft: partner with an SVP of Product and multiple PMs (across NY and the UK), advocating for the best experience while working through business goals, timelines, and technical constraints to decide the real first step
• Solve the hard, data-dense UX problems: malleable UI with sensible defaults for hedge funds and banks (without overwhelming them), taming information overload, trust and transparency in AI-mediated workflows (citations, confidence, control, reversibility), and cohesion across surfaces
• Stay hands-on: prototype in code and with real data, contribute directly to the highest-leverage surfaces, and set the craft bar by doing the work, not just reviewing it
• Raise the bar for AI-native design: define how AI shows up as a first-party capability across the product, not just in one agentic pane
• Help evolve our foundations: contribute to a design system being rebuilt to be code- and AI-readable
• Coach, grow, and care for a small team of senior designers: modeling the craft, giving sharp feedback, and creating the conditions for them to own outcomes end-to-end
• Hire and level thoughtfully as the team grows, keeping the org flat and the talent bar high
• Multiply the team’s impact through operating mechanisms (UX audits, opportunity maps, product narratives, design reviews, and clear quality bars) rather than personal output alone
• Communicate persuasively upward, including to VP/C-level, grounding proposals in customer evidence and business outcomes

Skills

• A senior product-design leader with 10+ years of relevant design experience at technical and product-driven companies
• A track record of owning a major product area's experience and shipping it
• Strong, well-argued opinions held with humility: you shape direction and create healthy friction, and you update your view when the evidence changes
• Genuine AI-native product judgment: not just content generation, but designing for trust, control, and workflow transformation in agentic and probabilistic systems
• Hands-on craft and technical fluency: comfortable prototyping in code (React / modern front-end an advantage) and using AI tools in your workflow; credible to designers and engineers alike
• People leadership: evidence you can model, coach, and care for a team, not only align stakeholders
• Excellent communication and collaboration with both technical and non-technical partners, and comfort operating in ambiguity across teams
• A serious, humble approach to ramping into it is essential
• 3+ years in people management preferred
• Ideally in complex, data-dense, or expert-user domains
• (For candidates newer to formal management, we'll look for strong player-coach signals and a real motivation to develop others.)
• Curiosity about (or experience in) financial services, fintech, or other high-stakes professional domains. Domain expertise is a strong plus

Benefits

• You may also be offered a performance-based bonus.
• You may also be offered equity.
• Remote - United States.

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