Director, People Business Partner - Product & Engineering

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!

About the Role

The Director, People Business Partnerships – Product & Engineering will play a pivotal role in shaping how our technical organization scales. You will partner closely with executive Product and Engineering leaders, operating as a true strategic advisor with the ability to drive meaningful change, not just support it. From defining how we scale talent and performance to evolving our People Business Partner model, your impact will be visible across the organization.

You will elevate the caliber of talent, strengthen performance differentiation, and design organizational structures that enable innovation velocity and technical excellence. As a trusted advisor and change leader, you will help ensure Product & Engineering is positioned for long-term scale and impact.

What You’ll Do

Strategic Partnership & Organizational Effectiveness

• Align workforce capacity and capability planning to product roadmaps, anticipating future skill and leadership needs to enable delivery on strategic priorities
• Lead complex organizational design initiatives that create clarity of structure, roles, and accountability at scale
• Partner on job architecture, leveling frameworks, and career paths across engineering and product teams to support growth and internal mobility
• Drive succession planning and leadership bench strength for critical technical and people leadership roles
• Partner with leaders to design and execute change strategies that ensure organizational shifts are clearly communicated, thoughtfully implemented, and effectively adopted

Talent Strategy & Performance Excellence

• Increase talent density by strengthening performance differentiation and addressing underperformance proactively and consistently
• Drive performance discipline through structured rhythms and coaching leaders to build high-performing, outcome-driven teams
• Identify and proactively retain critical technical talent, particularly in high-demand areas such as AI engineering, through targeted retention and development strategies
• Leverage attrition, engagement, and performance data to drive proactive, evidence-based talent decisions
• Ensure promotion, leveling, and advancement decisions are rigorous, equitable, and aligned to clear performance standards

PBP Model Leadership & Governance

• Lead, develop, and align a team of People Business Partners, setting clear expectations, coaching for high-impact, and elevating standards of strategic partnership
• Establish clear operating norms and feedback loops across PBPs supporting Product & Engineering
• Lead complex performance and employee relations matters with sound judgment, balancing business impact, employee experience, and risk mitigation
• Drive consistent, equitable application of People practices while reinforcing a high-accountability, inclusive culture across technical teams

Who You Are

• 12–15+ years of progressive HR experience, including significant time as a senior People Business Partner in high-growth technology environments
• Experience building and leading high-performing PBP teams, elevating standards and partnership impact
• Experience supporting Product and Engineering organizations at scale within product-led or technology-first companies
• Deep expertise in organizational design, performance management, and talent planning in technical environments
• Strong business acumen and ability to translate technical strategy into actionable people plans
• Sound judgment and executive presence, balancing empathy with high performance standards
• Ability to thrive in high-growth, evolving environments and bringing structure to ambiguity

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