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 RoleHandshake 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 partner cross functionally to understand Fellows and what to build for them, how to message to them across channels, and design marketing launch motions around new products and programs.
Fellow Insights: Gather inbound feedback and community insights, track what drives engagement and retention, and translate them into recommendations on what to build for Fellows
Messaging & Content: Define the messaging and content hierarchy for Fellows (what to say, what not to say), and write content and email, including a monthly newsletter, in a voice Fellows trust
Product Launches & Previews: Plan and execute launch marketing for Fellows, including previewing upcoming features, events, promoting different Fellow programs
Fellow Stories: Partner with Community to capture, produce, and distribute Fellow stories, including video, to showcase Fellow success and build advocacy
Community & Crisis Communication: Partner on communication to Fellows and negative sentiment response when issues surface
Experience partnering with product teams by bringing insights and market data on what to build next for Fellows
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
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
Handshake Insights
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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