Design Director, Brand

San Francisco, CA (On-site)

$160K/yr – $200K/yrDirector/ExecutiveFull time

Posted 2 weeks ago

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Job Summary

Own and evolve the AlphaSense brand design, leading ideas, team development, cross-functional partnerships, and design systems while grounding work in product and market fluency.

  • Own the design vision and evolution across campaigns and product storytelling.
  • Direct from inside the work, mentor the team, and build scalable design systems.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Help Drive the Design Vision: Define and evolve the creative direction for the AlphaSense brand across campaigns, product storytelling, OOH, social, web, and events — ensuring a cohesive, elevated, unmistakably-AlphaSense expression at every touchpoint.
  • Lead Idea-Centric Work: Drive the strategic and conceptual pull-through of big ideas from brief through execution, setting the bar for craft and originality on our most visible, highest-stakes brand investments.
  • Hands-On: The team is lean, so using your own design thinking and execution to make the work when the moment calls for it is imperative — you direct from inside the work, not from a distance.
  • Build & Grow the Team: Lead, mentor, and develop the brand design team in partnership with the Design Manager — shaping roles, raising the craft bar, growing careers, and keeping morale and creative culture high.
  • Partner Across Functions: Build deep, productive relationships across creative functions (copy, art direction, production, film) as well as marketing functions (PMM, Product, Web/Growth, and Comms) and lead agency and production partners when the time calls for it — aligning stakeholders and securing support to move ambitious work forward.
  • Evolve the System: Develop and steward the AlphaSense design system and visual language so the brand scales with consistency while still leaving room to surprise.
  • Push Product Integration: Find innovative ways to bring the product into the brand story, demonstrating the full creative potential of the platform.
  • Develop Deep Product & Market Fluency: Build a thorough understanding of the AlphaSense platform, our customers, and the broader B2B enterprise landscape so the work reflects real product value, use cases, and buyer context — not just surface-level aesthetics.

Requirements

  • A Proven Creative Leader : 10+ years in brand and creative design, with a portfolio that shows range across campaigns, brand systems, and high-craft execution — and a track record of leading teams to do the best work of their careers.
  • A Leader-Doer : You set the vision and the bar, but you stay in the work. You direct from inside it and get hands-on when an idea needs your hand — not from a distance.
  • Ideas-First: You lead with concept. You can take an abstract, technical idea — like enterprise market intelligence — and find the visual metaphor that makes it land for a sophisticated audience.
  • A Builder of Teams & Culture : You've managed and mentored designers (including through other managers), shaped roles, grown careers, and cultivated a creative culture of transparency, connectedness, and inspiration.
  • A Systems Thinker : You think in systems and scale — building design languages and ways of working that keep the brand consistent as it grows while still leaving room to surprise.
  • A Trusted Cross-Functional Partner : You build deep relationships across PMM, Product, Web/Growth, and Comms, influence senior stakeholders, and can win support and alignment for ambitious, high-stakes work.
  • Fluent in Complex & Enterprise Storytelling : You've made technical, B2B, or otherwise “dry” subject matter feel anything but boring, ideally for expert or executive audiences.
  • Strategically Grounded : You balance creative ambition with clarity, strategy, and business outcomes, and you thrive in a fast-moving environment with evolving priorities and a fair amount of ambiguity.

Benefits

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

3.7 Glassdoor

AlphaSense is the technology behind the business world’s most important decisions – from Wall Street to boardrooms across every major industry. Trusted by over 6,500 leading companies – including 88% of the S&P 100, 80% of top global banks, and all 20 of the world’s largest pharmaceutical firms – our AI search and market intelligence platform empowers business leaders to move faster and with greater confidence by delivering the right insights at the right moment. Whether investing, acquiring, advising, or launching, AlphaSense fuels the decisions where clarity creates competitive edge.Headquartered in New York City, AlphaSense employs over 2,500 people across offices in the U.S., U.K., Finland, India, and Singapore. For more information, please visit www.alpha-sense.com.

Founded in 2008
New York, New York, USA
2.7K employees (167 in marketing)
66% recommend to a friend
84% CEO approval

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
636.9K
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$444.6K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
31%
Direct
62.5%
Referral
5%
Social
0.7%
Paid
0.7%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~2.7K

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
143 (5% of company)
Median Career Experience
13 years
Median Tenure
3.8 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
2

Funding

Total Funding
$1.4B
Last Raise
$650M
Series F, 2 years ago

Funding History

  • Jun 2024
    Series F • $650M
  • Sep 2023
    Series E • $150M
  • Apr 2023
    Series D • $100M

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