Senior Marketing Manager - Fellows

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San Francisco, CA, USA
In-Office
152K-190K Annually
Senior level
Edtech • Enterprise Web • HR Tech • Software
Handshake is the number one site for college students to find a job.
The Role
Build and grow Handshake AI’s Fellow community through engagement, advocacy, retention, content, email communications, and crisis response. Own programs such as referrals, advisory boards, and STAR Fellows, while partnering with the AI team to ensure accurate messaging. The role requires consumer-facing marketing, online community growth, strong writing, program design, and sound judgment managing negative sentiment.
Summary Generated by Built In
About Handshake

Handshake was founded on a simple belief that everyone deserves a path to a great career, regardless of where they went to school or who they know. Today, we power 25 million job seekers, 1 million+ employers, and 1,600 educational institutions.

In 2025, we started Handshake AI and built the fastest-growing AI data business in history. We work directly with frontier AI lab researchers to create evaluations, publish benchmarks, and push the boundary of data. We've grown from $0 to ~$1B run rate and pay ~$60M to over 30K individuals every month.

Why join Handshake now:

  • Shape how every career evolves in the AI economy, at global scale, with impact your friends, family and peers can see and feel

  • Partner hand-in-hand with world-class AI labs, Fortune 500 partners and the world's top educational institutions

  • Work together with engineers, scientists, operators, and more from Palantir, Meta, Scale AI, and former YC founders

  • Build a massive, fast-growing business with billions in revenue

About Handshake AI

Human data is the core infrastructure to AI advancement. Frontier AI labs currently improve model capabilities with various data-intensive post-training techniques. We believe that data spend for AI training will increase by 3-5x in the next few years and continue for much longer as models take on new domains. Handshake AI supports all of the frontier AI labs, working on their most complex data at the largest scale.

About The Role

Handshake is hiring a Senior Marketing Manager to build and grow our community of Fellows, the experts who power Handshake AI's data work. You will design programs that turn Fellows into long-term advocates and serve as Handshake's everyday voice to that community, in good moments and in hard ones. This is a program-building and community role first, with product marketing skills as a supporting lens.

  • Community & Social Engagement: Own Fellow community management and social engagement to keep Fellows supported, heard, and connected to Handshake

  • Crisis Communication: Lead crisis communication and negative-sentiment response to protect Fellow trust when issues surface

  • Fellow Programs: Design and run programs such as the STAR Fellows program, the Fellow referral program, and a Fellow advisory board to turn Fellows into advocates for Handshake

  • Engagement & Retention: Develop creative ideas to increase Fellow engagement and retention, and track what moves them

  • Content & Email: Write content and email communications to give Fellows clear, consistent updates in a voice they trust

  • AI Team Partnership: Partner closely with the AI team to keep Fellow messaging accurate and grounded in what Fellows need

You Have
  • Experience in consumer-facing or community-driven marketing

  • Experience engaging and growing an online community

  • Creative approach to designing programs that turn users into advocates

  • Consumer-facing writing and marketing instincts, including content and email

  • Sound judgment handling negative sentiment and crisis communications

  • Strong communication and collaboration skills across teams

  • Excitement for Handshake's mission and the AI economy

Bonus Points

  • Product marketing experience, including messaging and positioning

  • B2C or marketplace experience, such as social media, ecommerce, or community platforms like Reddit, Discord, or Facebook Groups, or gig, creator, or expert-network communities

  • Interest in AI and the people who train and evaluate it

We Offer

Handshake delivers benefits that help you feel supported and thrive at work and in life.

The below benefits are for full-time US employees.

  • 🎯 Ownership: Equity in a fast-growing company

  • 💰 Financial Wellness: 401(k) match, competitive compensation, financial coaching

  • 🍼 Family Support: Paid parental leave, fertility benefits, parental coaching

  • 💝 Wellbeing: Medical, dental, and vision, mental health support, $500 wellness stipend

  • 📚 Growth: $2,000 learning stipend, ongoing development

  • 💻 Remote & Office: Internet, commuting, and free lunch/gym in our SF office

  • 🏝 Time Off: Flexible PTO, 15 holidays + 2 flex days

  • 🤝 Connection: Team outings & referral bonuses

Explore our mission, values, and comprehensive US benefits at joinhandshake.com/careers.

Skills Required

  • Experience in consumer-facing or community-driven marketing
  • Experience engaging and growing an online community
  • Creative approach to designing programs that turn users into advocates
  • Consumer-facing writing and marketing instincts, including content and email
  • Sound judgment handling negative sentiment and crisis communications
  • Strong communication and collaboration skills across teams
  • Excitement for Handshake’s mission and the AI economy
  • Product marketing experience, including messaging and positioning
  • B2C or marketplace experience, such as social media, ecommerce, Reddit, Discord, Facebook Groups, gig, creator, or expert-network communities
  • Interest in AI and the people who train and evaluate it

Handshake Compensation & Benefits Highlights

The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Handshake and has not been reviewed or approved by Handshake.

  • Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time-off practices include flexible/unlimited PTO, companywide recharge weeks in summer and winter, plus additional volunteer and personal holiday time. Feedback suggests sabbaticals and coordinated breaks help people actually use rest time.
  • Parental & Family Support — Parental leave is described as extended for primary and secondary caregivers, and family-oriented policies are highlighted. Fertility and family-support resources are referenced in public materials.
  • Healthcare Strength — Core coverage spans medical, dental, and vision, with added mental-health resources and wellness programming. Feedback suggests these supports contribute meaningfully to overall wellbeing.

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The Company
HQ: San Francisco, CA
700 Employees
Year Founded: 2014

What We Do

Handshake is the #1 place to launch a career with no connections, experience, or luck required. The platform connects up-and-coming talent with 650,000+ employers - from Fortune 500 companies like Google, Nike, and Target to thousands of public school districts, healthcare systems, and nonprofits. Earlier this year, we announced our $200M Series F funding round. This Series F fundraise and new valuation of $3.5B will fuel Handshake’s next phase of growth and propel our mission to help more people start, restart, and jumpstart their careers.

Why Work With Us

How someone builds their career is foundational. We believe in working with the higher education community to help students build meaningful careers. We are at the nexus of universities, students and employers— and we’re able to connect the very best pieces of each side. We’re proud to create a community where students can be more successful.

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