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# Principal Design Engineer at AlphaSense

- **Company:** AlphaSense
- **Location:** United Kingdom
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-04-17
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-05
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/alphasense/jobs/8511573002

## Job description

About AlphaSense:

AlphaSense is the AI platform redefining market intelligence and workflow orchestration, trusted by thousands of leading organizations to drive faster, more confident decisions in business and finance. The platform combines domain-specific AI with a vast content universe of over 500 million premium business documents — including equity research, earnings calls, expert interviews, filings, news, and internal proprietary content. Purpose-built for speed, accuracy, and enterprise-grade security, AlphaSense helps teams extract critical insights, uncover market-moving trends, and automate complex workflows with high-quality outputs. With AI solutions like Generative Search, Generative Grid, and Deep Research, AlphaSense delivers the clarity and depth professionals need to navigate complexity and obtain accurate, real-time information quickly. For more information, visit [www.alpha-sense.com](http://www.alpha-sense.com). Come join us.

The Team:

AlphaSense’s Design team is a strategic driver of product differentiation, shaping how the world’s leading companies make high-stakes decisions with confidence. We believe great UX is not just about usability, it’s about deeply understanding our customers’ workflows and building experiences that feel tailored, intelligent, and indispensable to how they work. As AlphaSense evolves into an AI-native platform, Design plays a critical role in defining how AI shows up in real workflows, from search to synthesis to decision-making. We partner closely with Product and Engineering to turn complex data and advanced AI capabilities into cohesive, intuitive, and high-quality experiences. Our team is a global group of craftspeople, systems thinkers, and innovators who care deeply about quality, velocity, and impact. We operate with a strong sense of ownership, a bias toward action, and a commitment to raising the bar for what great product design looks like in an AI-first world.

About the Role: We are seeking a Principal Design Engineer 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.

## 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.

Design Leadership & Team Impact

- Act as a senior leader within the Design team, mentoring designers and engineers, raising the bar for craft, and contributing to a strong, collaborative design culture.
- Serve as connective tissue across design, product, and engineering—helping teams navigate tradeoffs between technical constraints, business goals, and user experience to deliver high-quality outcomes.

## Who You Are

- 12+ 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.
- Demonstrated experience in project leadership, mentorship, and providing constructive feedback to foster professional growth.

AlphaSense is an equal-opportunity employer. We are committed to a work environment that supports, inspires, and respects all individuals. All employees share in the responsibility for fulfilling AlphaSense’s commitment to equal employment opportunity. AlphaSense does not discriminate against any employee or applicant on the basis of race, color, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, age, religion, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, military or veteran status, disability, or any other non-merit factor. This policy applies to every aspect of employment at AlphaSense, including recruitment, hiring, training, advancement, and termination.

In addition, it is the policy of AlphaSense to provide reasonable accommodation to qualified employees who have protected disabilities to the extent required by applicable laws, regulations, and ordinances where a particular employee works.

Recruiting Scams and Fraud

We at AlphaSense have been made aware of fraudulent job postings and individuals impersonating AlphaSense recruiters. These scams may involve fake job offers, requests for sensitive personal information, or demands for payment. Please note:

- AlphaSense never asks candidates to pay for job applications, equipment, or training.
- All official communications will come from an @[alpha-sense.com](http://alpha-sense.com/) email address.
- If you’re unsure about a job posting or recruiter, verify it on our [Careers page](https://www.alpha-sense.com/careers/).

If you believe you’ve been targeted by a scam or have any doubts regarding the authenticity of any job listing purportedly from or on behalf of AlphaSense please contact us. Your security and trust matter to us.

## About AlphaSense

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: AlphaSense operates an AI-powered market intelligence and search platform that helps business professionals make faster, more confident decisions by synthesizing insights from a vast library of curated public and private content.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series G, last raised ~1 month ago)
- **Headquarters**: New York, NY (441 Ninth Avenue 4th Floor, New York, 10001)
- **Founded**: 2011
- **Founders**: Jaakko (Jack) Kokko and Raj Neervannan

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: Market Intelligence, Enterprise AI, Financial Data & Analytics
- **Target customers**: B2B – serving Investment Banking, Hedge Funds, Private Equity, Asset Management, Consulting, Life Sciences & Healthcare, Tech/Media/Telecom, Energy, Industrials, Consumer Goods & Retail
- **Mission or purpose statement**: “Empower professionals to make smarter business decisions with confidence and speed.” [[glassdoor.com]]

## Products & Services
- **AlphaSense Core Search (newest release: AlphaSense X)**: AI-driven search engine that surfaces insights from millions of premium financial and business documents (company filings, broker research, expert transcripts, private data, internal content). Includes generative search with sentence-level citations and no hallucinations. Multi-agent architecture automates repeatable research tasks and synthesizes findings into reports and slides. [[alpha-sense.com]]
- **Acquired Assets (Tegus, BamSEC, Canalyst, Sentieo)**: Integrated expert call transcripts, SEC filing analytics, financial models, and quantitative data to deepen the content library.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed (private company); total raised is **$1.747B** (Series G as of mid-2025). [[cbinsights.com]]
- **Key Metric**: Total funding of $1.747B.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Not listed in provided sources; partner recognition includes Cerebras Systems for accelerated AI inference. [[alpha-sense.com/about/]]
- **Growth Signals**: Trusted by 7,000+ of the world’s largest enterprises; headcount of 1,001–5,000 employees (Glassdoor); new headquarters in Hudson Yards; multiple acquisitions (Tegus, BamSEC, Canalyst, Sentieo) over the past five years; partnership with Cerebras for faster AI.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Curated & exclusive content**: Access to Tegus expert transcripts, broker research, private financial data, and company filings that competitors may lack.
- **Trusted AI**: “Sentence-level citations and no hallucinations” – GenAI outputs grounded in reliable sources with full auditability.
- **Unified workflow**: Combines discovery, reasoning, and output generation in a single platform – eliminating fragmented tools.
- **Patents**: Filed 40 patents related to computational linguistics, natural language processing, and data management. [[cbinsights.com]]

## Strategic Focus
- **Next-generation Generative Search**: Multi-agent architecture that automates research tasks and produces executive-ready reports.
- **Content expansion**: Continues to acquire and integrate high-value data sources (expert transcripts, financial models, etc.).
- **AI reliability**: Emphasizing hallucination-free outputs and sentence-level citations to maintain trust with decision-makers.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Described as “product-led, growth mindset, people first.” Emphasis on empathy, inclusion, psychological safety, and work-life balance. [[alpha-sense.com/careers/]]
- **Benefits**: Comprehensive medical coverage, mental health support, wellness programs, retirement plans, stock options, financial consulting, generous time-off, volunteering opportunities, and family-friendly programs.
- **Growth**: Continuous learning, mentorship, leadership access, and career mobility across teams and regions.
- **Work environment**: “You’ll be surrounded by smart, supportive teammates” – autonomy with collaboration, fast-moving, trust-based. Offices in 7 locations; hybrid/remote policy not explicitly stated in provided sources.

## Sources
1. [alpha-sense.com](https://www.alpha-sense.com/)
2. [alpha-sense.com/careers/](https://www.alpha-sense.com/careers/)
3. [alpha-sense.com/about/](https://www.alpha-sense.com/about/)
4. [glassdoor.com](https://www.glassdoor.com/Overview/Working-at-AlphaSense-EI_IE1664354.11,21.htm)
5. [cbinsights.com](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/alphasense-1)

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