Director, People Systems
AlphaSense
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:
As the Director of People Systems, you will lead AlphaSense’s global People technology strategy and serve as the functional owner of Workday to support our hyper-growth. Your mission is to ensure our systems—from our core HRIS to our performance and compensation tools—are scalable, integrated, and provide a frictionless experience for our 2,500+ global employees.
What You’ll Do:
- Develop and execute the People technology roadmap and strategy
- Act as the global functional owner for Workday, develop and execute a strategy to optimize it, and ensure seamless integrations with downstream systems
- Lead the evaluation, selection, implementation, and adoption of new tools to support AlphaSense’s growth and maturation
- Partner across the People team to design and execute people processes (e.g., performance
- management, compensation, benefits, absence/leaves, employee engagement)
- Ensure our systems establish a single source of truth by prioritizing data integrity and consistency
- Partner with the People Operations team to audit workflows and increase efficiency, automation, predictability, consistency, and audit-readiness of our processes
- Partner with our Payroll team on the implementation and consolidation of global payroll systems
- Lead the HR systems integration during mergers and acquisitions, ensuring seamless merging of disparate HR systems, databases, and processes
- Develop systems and tools to provide robust reporting and data insights
- Lead, grow, and develop a team as the organization continues through a period of hyper-growth
- Collaborate with IT, Legal, and other departments to ensure a unified approach to data security, privacy, document retention, and compliance across the organization
Who You Are:
- 10+ years of experience in HR systems, People Technology, or a related field, with at least 5 years in a leadership role
- You are an accomplished People/HR systems and reporting professional with a proven track record working with Workday, Greenhouse, and Payroll systems
- You have experience defining and improving systems and scalable processes for a global workforce of 3,000+ employees
- You are a leader of leaders with the ability to inspire, grow, develop, and coach a team
- You thrive in fast-paced, rapidly growing organizations
- You are a strong communicator with the ability to drive organizational change through partnership with operational and business leadership
- You are detail-oriented and have experience managing large, global, enterprise-wide system implementations
- You are a pragmatic and thoughtful business partner who understands the importance of teamwork and collaboration
- You are a skilled storyteller with the ability to turn quantitative data into a qualitative tale
- You are a DEI champion and know how to use data to drive strategy
- You have an exceptional ability to lead cross-functional projects and influence stakeholders across IT, Finance, and Legal teams
For base compensation, we set standard ranges for all roles based on function and level benchmarked against similar stage growth companies and internal comparables. In order to be compliant with local legislation, as well as to provide greater transparency to candidates, we share salary ranges on all job postings regardless of desired hiring location. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors including candidate experience/expertise and may vary from the amounts listed below.
You may also be offered a performance-based bonus, equity, and a generous benefits program.
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.
In addition, it is the policy of AlphaSense to provide reasonable accommodation to qualified employees who have protected disabilities to the extent required by applicable laws, regulations, and ordinances where a particular employee works.
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