Fast Facts

Handshake is seeking a Staff Product Designer for the Employer Experience team to create impactful solutions for connecting employers with early-career talent. This role plays a crucial part in shaping Handshake's marketplace and driving revenue growth.

Responsibilities: Design end-to-end user experiences, collaborate closely with product and engineering teams, tackle complex design problems, and ensure high-quality craft in all outputs.

Skills: 7+ years in product design, strong communication, expertise in visual and interaction design, collaborative mindset, impact-driven, and design-led thinking.

Qualifications: Experience with enterprise or B2B products, proven track record of delivering measurable impact, and strong problem-solving abilities.

Location: San Francisco, California, United States

Compensation: $190000 - $240000 / Annually

About Handshake

Handshake is the career network for the AI economy. 20 million knowledge workers, 1,600 educational institutions, 1 million employers (including 100% of the Fortune 50), and every foundational AI lab trust Handshake to power career discovery, hiring, and upskilling, from freelance AI training gigs to first internships to full-time careers and beyond. This unique value is leading to unparalleled growth; in 2025, we tripled our ARR at scale.

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
• Work hand-in-hand with world-class AI labs, Fortune 500 partners and the world’s top educational institutions
• Join a team with leadership from Scale AI, Meta, xAI, Notion, Coinbase, and Palantir, among others
• Build a massive, fast-growing business with billions in revenue

About the Role

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.