Staff Product Designer, Employer Experience

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.

As a Staff Product Designer on the Employer team at Handshake, you would be responsible for designing experiences that help employers discover, connect with, and hire early-career talent more effectively. The Employer team is a revenue-critical group that sits at the core of Handshake’s three-sided marketplace, directly driving growth while shaping how employers attract candidates, evaluate fit, and make hiring decisions. Designers on this team work on high-impact, complex problems where craft, trust, and business outcomes intersect, shipping experiences that fuel revenue while expanding access and opportunity for students.
Your Role

• Partner closely with product, engineering, and data teams to define problems, set goals, and shape product strategy.

• Own design end-to-end, from early concept through post-launch iteration: user flows, interaction prototypes, high-fidelity mocks, and collaboration through build.

• Tackle complex and ambiguous human-centered design problems, translating them into clear, simple solutions.

• Rapidly iterate through wireframes and prototypes to gather feedback early and often.

• Obsess over craft, with a strong point of view on visual and interaction design.

Your Experience

• 7+ years of product design experience, ideally on enterprise or B2B products.

• Strong communicator who clearly articulates design decisions, tradeoffs, and the thinking behind them to partners and leadership.

• Deep visual and interaction design expertise, with a proven track record of shipped work and measurable impact.

• Highly collaborative. You value diverse perspectives and incorporate them into the design process to achieve better outcomes.

• Design-led thinker who raises the bar by embedding design thinking into day-to-day work and helping others grow.

• Impact-driven. You prioritize ruthlessly and focus on the work that matters most.

• Gritty and hands-on. You’re willing to roll up your sleeves and take ownership—nothing is “someone else’s problem.”

• Deeply motivated by Handshake’s mission and committed to helping all students build meaningful careers.

• Curious and always learning, with a growth mindset.

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.