Staff Product Designer
Staff Product Designer
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Job Description
Everyone is welcome at Handshake. We know diverse teams build better products and we are committed to creating an inclusive culture built on a foundation of respect for all individuals. We strongly encourage candidates from nontraditional backgrounds historically marginalized or underrepresented groups to apply.
Your Impact
Remember the uncertainty of searching for your first job First internship second job Does anyone slide seamlessly into the start of their careers Most of us dont; for millions of students every year it feels like a mission fraught with invisible traps no map and the looming prospect of bills to pay. Access to help is not evenly distributed: not to connections nor to information on whats even possible out there.
Thats where Handshake comes in. Our mission is to democratize access to opportunity: to help every student find the right job no matter where theyre from or who they know. Were the career network for Gen Z with over 15M job seekers almost 1M employers and 1500 career centers coming together on our platform. Students need jobs and career guidance and nascent professional community employers want to find and make great student hires and career centers help us help everyone ensuring its not just students intheknow who get in our doors. Were seeking you and your design chops to help make it the best experience for all those involved!
Come help make our design team worldclass to tackle this very tangible incentivesaligned realworld problem. As a Staff level designer youll be helping lead the charge alongside your Design Lead teammates making what we do rigorous impactful and joyful because well life is short. Lets do work that matters together and enjoy it as we go.
Your Role
- Organize craft and iterate on large strategic design initiatives: youll use data research and product thinking to form your product vision and make that future tangible by painting possible paths forward in pixels and prototypes
- Collaborate closely with your partners both crossfunctionally and within design: research PM engineering analytics design systems brand marketing to ship and iterate on strategic wellthoughtout surprisingly greattouse products that make real impact for both our customers and business
- Help your team succeed: raise the bar on culture operations and of design work including product reasoning systems thinking pixel level precision mobile prototyping ability to facilitate conversations with and present to stakeholders stellar teamwork and mentoring
- Strengthen the overall product organizations ability to experiment iterate and learn alongside your product organization lead teammates; develop wellinformed strategic visions of where were headed collaborate to break them into pragmatic phases to scaffold our way forward
- Inform creative direction and information architecture alongside your design leader teammates and the VP of Design to weave a seamless symbiotic experience across the disparate areas of our threesided marketplace
Your Experience
- Youve designed and shipped products including mobile and desktop that customers love and can systematically clearly articulate what it took to make that happen from highlevel strategy down to pixellevel decisionmaking
- You know how to roll data research business goals technical constraints and customer needs together into stronglycrafted solutions (mocks prototypes flows); you iterate fast ensure you gather feedback use strategic reasoning to inform your decisions
- You relish using your design skills to bring clarity and simplicity to both process and product
- Youre humble and kind despite your track record excited to keep learning curious about the workings of a threesided marketplace and everevolving team / product surface area
- Extra bonus if youre experienced with one or more of: multisided marketplaces growth design systems b2b
Compensation Range
$185000$240000
For cash compensation we set standard ranges for allU.S.based rolesbased on function level and geographic location benchmarked against similar stage growth companies. In order to be compliant with local legislation as well as to provide greater transparency to candidates we share salary ranges on all job postings regardless of desired hiring location. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors including geographic location as well as candidate experience and expertise and may vary from the amounts listed above.
About us
Handshake is the career platform for Gen Z. With a community of over 17 million students alumni employers and career educators Handshakes network is where career advice and discovery turn into first second and third jobs. Nearly 1 million companies use Handshake to build their future workforcefrom Fortune 500 to federal agencies school districts to startups healthcare systems to small businesses. Handshake is built for where youre going not where youve been.
When it comes to our workforce strategy weve thought deeply about how worklife should look at Handshake. With our hybridwork model employees benefit from collaboration and shared team experiences three days per week in our vibrant offices and enjoy the flexibility of remote work two days per week. Handshake is headquartered in San Francisco with offices in New York London and Berlin.
What we offer
At Handshake well give you the tools to feel healthy happy and secure.
Benefits below apply to employees in fulltime positions.
- Equity and ownership in a fastgrowing company.
- 16 Weeks of paid parental leave for birth giving parents & 10 weeks of paid parental leave for nonbirth giving parents.
- Comprehensive medical dental and vision policies including LGTBQ Coverage. We also provide resources for Mental Health Assistance Employee Assistance Programs and counseling support.
- Handshake offers $500/360 home office stipend for you to spend during your first 3 months to create a productive and comfortable workspace at home.
- Generous learning & development opportunities and an annual $2000/1500/1850 stipend for you to grow your skills and career.
- Financial coaching through Origin to help you through your financial journey.
- Monthly internet stipend and a brand new MacBook to allow you to do your best work.
- Monthly commuter stipend for you to expense your travel to the office (for officebased employees).
- Free lunch provided twice a week across all offices.
- Referral bonus to reward you when you bring great talent to Handshake.
(USspecific benefits in addition to the first section)
- 401k Match: Handshake offers a dollarfordollar match on 1 of deferred salary up to a maximum of $1200 per year.
- All fulltime USbased Handshakers are eligible for our flexible time off policy to get out and see the world. In addition we offer 8 standardized holidays and 2 additional days of flexible holiday time off. Lastly we have a Winter #ShakeBreak a oneweek period of Collective Time Off.
- Family support: We partner with Milk Stork to provide comprehensive 100 employersponsored lactation support to traveling parents and guardians. Parental leave coaching and support provided by Parentaly.
(UKspecific benefits in addition to the first section)
- Pension Scheme: Handshake will provide you with a workplace pension where you will make contributions based on 5 of your salary. Handshake will pay the equivalent of 3 towards your pension plan subject to qualifying earnings limits.
- Up to 25 days of vacation to encourage people to reset recharge and refresh in addition to 8 bank holidays throughout the year.
- Regular offsites each year to bring the team together opportunity to travel to our HQ in San Francisco.
- Discounts across various high street retailers cinemas and other social activities exclusively for Handshake UK employees.
(Germanyspecific benefits in addition to the first section)
- 25 days of annual leave 5 days of a winter #ShakeBreak a oneweek period of Collective Time Off across the company.
- Regular offsites each year to bring the team together opportunity to travel to our HQ in San Francisco once a year.
- Urban sports club membership offering access to a diverse network of fitness and wellness facilities.
- Discounts across various high street retailers cinemas and other social activities exclusively for Handshake Germany employees.
Looking for more Explore our mission values and comprehensive US benefits atjoinhandshake/careers.
Handshake is committed to providing reasonable accommodations in our recruitment processes for candidates with disabilities sincerely held religious beliefs or other reasons protected by applicable laws. If you need assistance or reasonable accommodation please let your recruiter know during initial communications.
Required Experience:
Staff IC
Employment Type
Full-Time
