AlphaSense

Senior/Staff Design Engineer

AlphaSense$200K — $330K *
US-AnywhereRemote in New York, NY
Consumer Technology
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 10+ years of experience in product design, design/UX/front-end engineering, or design systems.
  • Bachelor's degree or higher in design, computer science, information sciences, psychology, or HCI preferred.
  • Hands-on experience with front-end technologies (HTML/CSS, JavaScript/TypeScript, React).
  • Experience building and leveraging AI-powered experiences in design and development processes.
  • Expertise with AI technologies applicable to design problems (e.g., MCP, Claude Code).
  • Experience shipping production-ready experiences influencing design and technical decisions.
  • Strong understanding of user-centered design principles and customer workflows.

Responsibilities

  • Create high-fidelity, coded prototypes for complex AI-powered workflows.
  • Own high-impact initiatives from concept through to production, ensuring strong design and technical quality.
  • Lead technical design discussions and guide cross-team implementation efforts.
  • Advance AlphaSense's design system to define scalable patterns for product consistency.
  • Collaborate with product managers and engineers to translate user requirements into effective designs.
  • Advocate for design quality and user experience throughout the development lifecycle.
  • Navigate tradeoffs between technical constraints, business goals, and user experience to ensure high-quality outcomes.

Benefits

  • Performance-based bonus.
  • Equity options.
  • Generous benefits program.
Full Job Description
About the Role

We are seeking Senior and Staff Design Engineers to play a key role in shaping the future of AlphaSense's product experience. This is a senior individual contributor role, where you'll 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 won't just prototype ideas; you'll define how they are built, scaled, and experienced in the product.

As a senior member of the Design team, you'll act as a multiplier-mentoring 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 decisions. In this role, you will help define that standard-through 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 bachelor's 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 You'll 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 AlphaSense's design system as a core piece of product infrastructure-defining 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 build-leveraging 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.


For base compensation, we set standard ranges for all roles based on function and level benchmarked against similar stage growth companies and internal comparables. In order to be compliant with local legislation, as well as to provide greater transparency to candidates, we share salary ranges on all job postings regardless of desired hiring location. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors including candidate experience/expertise and may vary from the amounts listed below.

You may also be offered a performance-based bonus, equity, and a generous benefits program.

Base Compensation Range

$200,000-$330,000 USD

About AlphaSense

AlphaSense is a software company that provides an AI-powered search engine for business professionals. The company was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in New York City. AlphaSense's search engine allows users to search across a wide range of sources, including company filings, news articles, and research reports. The company's platform is used by a variety of industries, including finance, consulting, and legal. AlphaSense has received numerous awards for its innovative technology and has been recognized as one of the fastest-growing companies in the United States.
Learn more about AlphaSense
Size
200 employees
Industry
Founded
2011

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