Staff Product Designer, Design Systems

About AlphaSense: 

The world’s 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 4,000 enterprise customers, including a majority of the S&P 500. Founded in 2011, AlphaSense is headquartered in New York City with more than 2,000 employees across the globe and offices in the U.S., U.K., Finland, India, Singapore, Canada, and Ireland. Come join us!

Reports to: Principal Product Designer

Location: NYC Region : This position would be considered a hybrid role, with expectations of two (2) days per week within the NYC Headquarters/office and the remaining time working remotely.

About the Team: 

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.

About the Role:

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.

Who You Are & What You Bring:

• 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

What You’ll Do:

• 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