Sr. Director, Development & Talent

Remote - United Kingdom

The world’s most sophisticated companies rely on Alpha Sense to remove uncertainty from decision-making. With market intelligence and search built on proven AI, Alpha Sense 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 Alpha Sense in 2024 advances our shared mission to empower professionals to make smarter decisions through AI‑driven market intelligence. Together, Alpha Sense 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, Alpha Sense 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

Alpha Sense 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 Alpha Sense, 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.

In this role, you will be responsible for designing and owning Alpha Sense’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 over engineering or overselling these approaches.

Throughout all of this, you will operate as a close partner to People Business Partners, People Operations,…