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title: 'Senior Product Designer II at Handshake'
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# Senior Product Designer II at Handshake

- **Company:** [Handshake](https://feeny.ai/companies/handshake)
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Posted:** 2026-09-04
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-09
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/handshake/2dd606c0-976f-4f22-b258-102a5ad3da4c

## Job description

## ABOUT HANDSHAKE

Handshake is the career network built for the AI economy. With 20 million knowledge workers, 1,600 educational institutions, 1 million employers—including 100% of the Fortune 50—and every major AI lab trusting Handshake to power career discovery, hiring, and upskilling, we sit at the intersection of talent and opportunity at a pivotal moment in history. From freelance AI training gigs to first internships to full-time careers, Handshake is where professional journeys begin and evolve. That unique position is driving extraordinary growth: in 2025, we tripled our ARR at scale.

## ABOUT THE ROLE

As a Senior Product Designer II on the Jobs team at Handshake, you'll design the core experience that millions of students rely on to find and land their next opportunity—job search, job application, and everything that happens after someone hits "apply." You'll also help shape the Home experience, the surface where students land and discover what's relevant to them, ensuring it connects seamlessly into the broader jobs journey.

This team owns one of the most heavily used, highest-stakes surfaces on Handshake. You'll work closely with product, engineering, data science, and content partners to make job discovery faster, applications easier, and the post-application experience clearer and less anxiety-inducing—turning a process students often find opaque and stressful into one that feels transparent and within their control.

## YOUR ROLE

- Own design across the end-to-end jobs experience: search and discovery, job details, application flow, and post-application status and follow-up.
- Partner with product, engineering, data science, and content teams to define problems, propose solutions, and ship polished, high-quality experiences.
- Contribute to the Home experience, helping ensure what students see first sets them up to succeed in their job search.
- Translate user research, behavioral data, and qualitative feedback into design decisions that improve match quality, application completion, and student confidence throughout the process.
- Rapidly iterate through wireframes, prototypes, and experiments to test and validate design directions.
- Collaborate with a Staff Designer and design leadership to ensure your work ladders up to the broader Jobs and Network strategy.
- Bring strong craft to every surface you touch—visual design, interaction design, and attention to the small details that make an experience feel trustworthy and easy to use.

## YOUR EXPERIENCE

- 5+ years of product design experience, ideally building consumer-facing products at scale.
- Experience designing complex, multi-step flows (e.g., search, application, checkout, onboarding) where completion and drop-off really matter.
- Strong communicator who can clearly explain design decisions, tradeoffs, and the thinking behind them to product and engineering partners.
- Solid visual and interaction design skills, with a track record of shipping high-quality experiences.
- Comfortable using qualitative and quantitative insights (user research, funnel data, experiment results) to inform and validate design decisions.
- Comfortable incorporating generative AI tools into the design process to accelerate ideation, prototyping, and iteration.
- Highly collaborative, with the ability to work effectively across product, engineering, data science, and content.
- Detail-oriented and craft-driven, with a bias toward getting the small things right.
- Impact-driven, able to prioritize and focus on what matters most for students trying to land a job.
- Gritty and hands-on—willing to dig into ambiguous problems and take ownership of your surface area.
- Deeply motivated by Handshake's mission and committed to helping students build meaningful careers in the AI economy.
- Curious and always learning, with a growth mindset.

## BONUS POINTS

- Experience designing search, discovery, or marketplace matching experiences.
- Experience with application/funnel flows where conversion and completion rate are key metrics.
- Familiarity with career services, recruiting, or early-career talent pipelines.
- Experience designing "home" or landing surfaces that personalize content for different user segments.

## 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 http://joinhandshake.com/careers. http://joinhandshake.com/careers.Your

## About Handshake

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Handshake is the career network for the AI economy, connecting job seekers with internships, full-time roles, freelance gigs, and AI training work through a three-sided marketplace.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series F; total funding $434M across 6 rounds)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, USA
- **Founded**: 2014
- **Founders**: Garrett Lord (CEO), Ben Christensen, Scott Ringwelski

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Career platform / Job marketplace / AI workforce infrastructure
- **Target customers**: B2C (job seekers, from students to experienced professionals) and B2B (employers including 100% of Fortune 500 and all foundational AI labs; also educational institutions)
- **Mission**: Expand access and improve outcomes for job seekers, helping the workforce stay ahead in the AI economy.

## Products & Services
- **Handshake Core Platform**: A three-sided marketplace connecting 25 million knowledge workers, 1,600+ schools, and 1 million employers. Features dynamic profiles, intelligent job matching, and interactive skill-building.
- **Handshake AI Enterprise**: AI-powered tools for employers and job seekers, including AI-driven matching, safety features, and pay management.
- **AI Trainer Gigs**: Paid, flexible, remote work for individuals to train and evaluate AI models (e.g., AI Evaluation Specialist, up to $40/hr) – no prior AI experience required.
- **Handshake Network**: Community events, career advice, and networking for students, experts, and professionals in AI and other fields.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Total funding $434M (6 rounds); annual revenue $56.5M (LinkedIn estimate)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Board includes representatives from General Catalyst, Kleiner Perkins, EQT Ventures, True Ventures, and Niantic. Strategic partners include 100% of the Fortune 500 and foundational AI labs.
- **Growth Signals**: Headcount at 5,272 employees (+708.8% YoY per LinkedIn); 1M+ companies on platform; 25M users; expansion into AI trainer gig economy; new roles in HAI (Handshake AI Enterprise) such as Applied AI Engineer, AI Platform Engineer, and Forward Deployed Engineer.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Network effects**: The only three-sided marketplace linking students, employers, and educational institutions at scale.
- **AI-first positioning**: Deep integration of AI into job matching, skill-building, and new freelance training roles – creating a unique ecosystem for the AI economy.
- **Trusted by elite institutions**: 1,600+ partner schools and every Fortune 500 company provides unparalleled reach into early-career talent.

## Strategic Focus
- **AI economy expansion**: Building the “career network for the AI economy” – expanding beyond college students to all knowledge workers, and adding AI training gigs as a new revenue and engagement stream.
- **Product innovation**: Heavy investment in Handshake AI Enterprise (HAI), including AI matching, safety, and pay infrastructure.
- **Global scaling**: Offices in San Francisco, New York, UK, and Bangalore; operating in 32 countries.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Values include “Students first,” “Leave nothing to chance,” “Own the outcome,” “Invent and reinvent,” and “Olympic pace.” Emphasis on ownership, urgency, and constant evolution.
- **Remote/Hybrid policy**: Many roles are based in San Francisco or New York, but some positions (e.g., Trust & Safety Specialist, Support Specialist) are remote in the US. Recent openings show both office and remote options.
- **Benefits**: Health & wellness support, financial support, time off, modern offices with meals, snacks, and social activities. Strong focus on career growth and learning.
- **Career growth**: Rapid headcount growth suggests ample internal mobility; roles range from engineering (ML, AI, data) to customer success, partnerships, and product management.

## Sources
1. [joinhandshake.com/about](https://joinhandshake.com/about/)
2. [joinhandshake.com/careers](https://joinhandshake.com/careers/)
3. [linkedin.com/company/team-handshake](https://www.linkedin.com/company/team-handshake)
4. [joinhandshake.com](https://joinhandshake.com/)

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