Sr. Director, People Development & Talent

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AlphaSense seeks a Senior Director of People Programs & Talent to unify onboarding, performance, development and learning into a cohesive, scalable system. As a hands on builder, you’ll design and own core programs, use data to drive decisions, partner with senior leaders, and optimize Workday workflows to improve cycles and reporting. Success means clearer expectations, simpler performance processes, stronger leadership development, and higher retention as the company scales. To apply, highlight 10+ years leading large HR programs, measurable impact, and fluency with Workday and learning design; show how you would pilot and iterate; and verify you’re applying through AlphaSense’s official channels on the Careers page to avoid scams.

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 6,000 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!

The Role

AlphaSense is hiring a Senior Director of People Programs & Talent to build the company’s first truly cohesive set of enterprise people programs. This is a foundational role designed for a hands-on builder who is excited to create clarity, structure, and momentum where programs are still early or evolving. We are looking for a strategic and data-driven leader with deep business acumen who designs people programs grounded in evidence, clear outcomes, and best-practice HR methodologies.

Today, our efforts across onboarding, performance management, learning and development, manager effectiveness, leadership development, and culture exist, but they are uneven and not yet operating as an integrated system. This role exists to change that. You will design, build, and scale the core programs that shape how people perform, grow, and stay at AlphaSense, while being thoughtful about what is truly needed at our stage and what can come later.

This role is an opportunity for a senior leader who enjoys building from first principles, working closely with business leaders, and delivering practical programs that managers actually use.

What You’ll Do

In this role, you will be responsible for designing and owning AlphaSense’s core people programs across performance, development, onboarding, and learning.

A core part of this role is ensuring that people programs are measurable, consistent, and tied to real outcomes. You will design and run performance and talent processes that support a high-performance culture by emphasizing clear expectations, continuous feedback, and fair, objective evaluation. You will analyze performance and talent data to identify trends, surface inconsistencies, and recommend enhancements that improve manager effectiveness, engagement, productivity, and retention. You will also partner closely with People Technology to evolve our systems and workflows, particularly in Workday, to streamline performance cycles, improve the manager and employee experience, and enable stronger reporting and insights for senior leaders.

You will also strengthen onboarding and early employee experience, ensuring new hires are set up for success quickly and consistently. As part of this work, you will develop targeted programs for critical talent and retention, partnering with People Business Partners and business leaders to identify key roles, high-impact populations, and leadership segments where development and retention matter most.

This role requires a strong learning and design orientation. You will create content, curricula, and experiences largely in-house, drawing on facilitation, learning design, and practical enablement rather than relying heavily on external vendors. You will think carefully about where technology, automation, or emerging AI capabilities could enhance scale and effectiveness over time, without overengineering or overselling these approaches.

Throughout all of this, you will operate as a close partner to People Business Partners, People Operations, and senior leaders. You will balance strategic thinking with hands-on execution, piloting programs, learning from feedback, and iterating quickly in a resource-conscious environment.

What Success Looks Like

Over time, success in this role looks like managers having clearer expectations and better tools to lead, performance cycles that are simpler and more meaningful, and leaders who feel better equipped to develop and retain their teams. AlphaSense will have a credible foundation for leadership development, critical talent retention, and performance management that can scale with the business.

Who You Are

You bring 10+ years of experience in talent management, learning and development, organizational development, or closely related people roles, with demonstrated success running large-scale, complex HR programs such as annual performance cycles, talent reviews, or leadership development initiatives. You are a strategic thinker with strong business judgment who uses data to diagnose problems, guide decisions, and measure impact. You are comfortable working in systems like Workday to extract insights, identify patterns, and present clear, data-driven recommendations to senior leaders. You are comfortable designing learning experiences, creating content, and facilitating sessions yourself when needed.

You thrive in fast-paced, high-growth environments and are energized by building from scratch rather than inheriting mature systems. You are a systems thinker who understands how performance, development, onboarding, and retention fit together across the employee lifecycle. You bring strong judgment, clear communication, and the ability to influence leaders without relying on heavy processes or large budgets.

You will stay curious about emerging tools and technologies—including analytics, automation, and AI—and thoughtfully evaluate where they can improve insight, scale, or program effectiveness over time.

Why Join

This is a rare opportunity to define and build the core people programs for a company entering its next stage of scale. You will have real ownership, meaningful impact, and the chance to shape how performance, leadership, and development work at AlphaSense for years to come

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.

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