Staff Product Designer, 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

• Partner with product, engineering, data, research, and operations to define and build the vision for operator independence and self-serve tooling.

• Develop strategic product visions and collaborate with partners to sequence them into pragmatic phases.

• Collaborate closely with Model Enablement and Fellow Experience squads—your work enables theirs.

• Partner with operations leaders and stay close to operators’ workflows. Run pilots, shadow users, uncover pain points, and translate insights into prioritized investments.

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

• Own design end-to-end—from concept through production—iterating quickly through research, user journeys, wireframes, prototypes, and high-fidelity designs with a strong point of view on craft.

• Raise the bar for design culture and execution through systems thinking, product reasoning, pixel-level precision, facilitation, and mentoring.

Your experience

• 7+ years of product design experience, ideally working on enterprise products, operations tooling, or internal platforms.

• 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.

• Experience designing complex systems, workflows, or platforms with many moving parts and stakeholders.

• Highly collaborative, valuing diverse perspectives and incorporating 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, with the ability to prioritize ruthlessly and focus on the work that matters most.

• Hands-on, willing to roll up your sleeves and take ownership—nothing is “someone else’s problem”.

• Deeply motivated by Handshake’s mission. Humble, kind, and curious, with a desire to keep learning and help others grow.

• Bonus if you have experience in operator or driver management, workflow or task management systems, or building internal tools for operations teams at a high-growth company.

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.