Head of Engineering

Head of Engineering

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.

• 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.
  

• 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.
  
• Bachelors 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.

• 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.