Head of Engineering, India
at AlphaSense
Bengaluru, India
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
We are seeking a Head of Engineering, based in India, to spearhead the growth, leadership, and scaling of our global Application Engineering organization . This is a critical leadership position, reporting to the EVP of Engineering. It is a pivotal role in expanding and strengthening our world-class engineering teams to support AlphaSense’s global product and technology ambitions.
You will build, scale, and inspire diverse engineering teams across all AlphaSense application domains , ensuring the successful delivery of innovative, enterprise-grade product experiences, while driving engineering excellence, operational maturity, and technical leadership.
This is an outstanding opportunity for a hands-on and visionary engineering leader who thrives in a fast-paced, high-growth SaaS environment, and is passionate about making a lasting impact on AlphaSense’s global growth journey.
Key Responsibilities
- Establish and scale AlphaSense’s Application engineering organization in India and around the globe, expanding teams across key application domains to support global business objectives.
- Drive the successful delivery of innovative product experiences and platforms, ensuring technology excellence and enabling exceptional customer outcomes.
- Collaborate closely with global Product, Data, and Design teams to define, plan, and execute the product and technology roadmap.
- Lead the talent strategy for India, attracting, hiring, developing, and retaining top engineering talent while fostering an exceptional, high-performance engineering culture aligned with AlphaSense’s global values.
- Oversee architectural, technical, and operational excellence, ensuring systems are built for scalability, performance, security, and maintainability.
- Foster a culture of engineering rigor, curiosity, and continuous improvement, while championing collaboration, transparency, and alignment across global teams.
- Serve as a senior executive leader in India, representing AlphaSense Engineering within the region and collaborating closely with other India-based leaders to drive site-level growth, engagement, and leadership alignment.
- Guide the organization through hyper-growth and transformation, ensuring both technology and teams scale effectively, balancing agility, innovation, and operational maturity.
- and resilience.
Who You Are
- 15+ years of engineering leadership experience, including 5+ years in senior leadership roles (Sr. Director or VP) managing large, distributed, and cross-functional engineering teams.
- Proven success in scaling engineering organizations in India, ideally within global SaaS, enterprise software, or product-driven technology companies.
- Deep experience in delivering high-scale, high-availability, enterprise-grade platforms and products.
- Demonstrated ability to lead technology organizations through phases of hyper-growth, organizational scaling, and technology transformation.
- Strong technical acumen; able to evaluate and guide architectural and design decisions, ensuring scalability, performance, and reliability.
- Proven track record of building, mentoring, and nurturing diverse, high-performing, and engaged engineering teams, fostering a culture of excellence, inclusion, and collaboration.
- Outstanding communicator and executive presence, able to influence and align senior stakeholders across global teams and time zones.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (required); Master’s degree preferred.
- Based in India, with experience operating in global, distributed, and multicultural organizations.
Why AlphaSense
- Work at the forefront of AI-driven market intelligence with a globally admired, high-growth pre-IPO company.
- Lead and scale India’s engineering organization with strategic impact and autonomy.
- Competitive compensation including performance-based bonus, equity, and benefits program.
- Collaborative, inclusive, and values-driven work environment with a global footprint.
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