Senior Product Designer II, Handshake AI

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

Your role

Handshake AI powers expert-labeled data collection at scale, matching domain experts with leading AI companies to train frontier models. We're hiring a Senior Product Designer II to lead significant, high-impact design initiatives — someone who can navigate ambiguity with confidence, bring rigor and data-informed thinking to complex problems, and raise the bar for the design org around them.

In this role, you'll own meaningful chunks of our product strategy, driving design end-to-end across complicated, often loosely-defined projects. You'll be a go-to resource for your teammates, proactively mentoring and improving quality beyond your own work — while staying close to customers, operators, and the full business to keep your decisions well-grounded.

• Lead end-to-end design on significant, high-impact projects, from discovery through production and iteration, often with minimal definition and little precedent to work from.

• Bring a data-informed mindset to every aspect of your work — articulating when data is incomplete or biased, keeping the user at the center of every solution, and holding a high bar for quality and craft before sharing your work.

• Contribute to prioritization, strategy, and process — breaking big ambiguous problems into actionable steps and building clarity for your team and cross-functional partners.

• Use business goals, data, patterns, and industry context to arrive at quick, iterative solutions — avoiding getting stuck in the abstract.

• Proactively identify opportunities to inform, influence, and collaborate across the design org, creating workflow efficiencies and sharing learnings with teammates.

• Serve as a helpful mentor for teammates at earlier career levels, improving craft, communication, and design quality beyond your own area.

Your experience

• 6+ years of product design experience, with a track record of designing and shipping products that customers love.

• Proven ability to lead complicated, ambiguous projects with little direction, driving them forward and creating clarity for those around you.

• Strong data-informed thinking. You roll business goals, research, technical constraints, and user needs into well-crafted solutions (mocks, prototypes, flows), and you iterate fast.

• Experience mentoring or coaching peers, and a track record of improving quality beyond your own work.

• Strong communicator who manages stakeholders well — you understand the nuance of upward and cross-functional communication and proactively keep the right people informed.

• Deep visual and interaction design craft, with attention to detail across flows, states, and edge cases.

• Humble, collaborative, and curious. Energized by a complex, evolving product and motivated to keep learning and help others grow.

• Bonus if you have experience designing LLM or AI-powered products, or working on enterprise or operations tooling.

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.