Director of Product, Search and Curated Experiences

AlphaSense•New York, NY

5h•$275,000 - $290,000

About The Position

AlphaSense is seeking a senior, deeply technical product leader to own Search and Curated Experiences. Search is the front door to a corpus of hundreds of millions of business documents, and the relevance, ranking, document-type coverage, filtering, and performance owned sit underneath every product surface. Curated Experiences define how AlphaSense’s content, functionality, and intelligence show up in pre-built experiences that act as a launchpad for customers’ research, including company profiles, industry profiles, and monitoring. This is a leadership role where the individual will set the search strategy, own the metrics, and drive impact with both Search and Curated Experiences. The role involves leading a small team, including a domain-expert for Curated Experiences, and owning these programs end to end with the judgment, drive, and initiative to take them all the way.

Requirements

Deeply Technical: You have built search and relevance systems at scale - e.g., a Google Search-caliber background or equivalent depth in ranking, retrieval, query understanding, and evaluation. You can reason fluently about representation, freshness, quality, and system-design tradeoffs.
Strong Ownership & Drive: You take programs end to end and operate autonomously. You set direction, make the calls, and are accountable for the outcome.
A People Leader: You can manage and grow PMs, set clear lines of ownership, and resolve ambiguity rather than create it.
Analytical & Data-Driven: You balance business goals with technical capability and let metrics, not opinion, settle questions of search quality.
Strong Customer Orientation: You understand how sophisticated users search and form conviction, and you use interviews, usability testing, and behavioral data to validate hypotheses.
Clear Communicator: You can align engineering, design, and product marketing around a roadmap and gain buy-in to drive high-impact work.

Nice To Haves

Domain Experience a Plus: Direct experience in financial services, capital markets, or with our core customers (financial services, corporate strategy, consulting) is a plus, but not required.

Responsibilities

Own both Search and Curated Experiences: Relevance, ranking, query understanding, document-type coverage, filters, latency, and reliability across every surface that depends on search are ownership areas, alongside adoption and engagement of company profiles and future new curated experiences.
Define the strategy: Set and defend a roadmap that balances relevance quality, coverage, and performance against clear business priorities.
Build evaluation and measurement: Stand up the metrics, benchmarks, and experimentation needed to know whether search is getting better, and to prove it.
Collaborate across teams: Partner closely with Knowledge Graph, SuperAnalyst / AI, Engineering, and Design so that search and the experiences built on top of it move together.
Lead and grow a team: Manage and mentor the curated-experiences / domain-expert PM, set clear ownership, and raise the bar for the search org as it grows.
Execute and deliver: Lead the end-to-end product lifecycle - from strategy and experimentation through launch, post-launch analysis, and iteration.