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$ 170000 - 220000
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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
Handshake is hiring a Senior Product Manager reporting to the Director of Product. As a Senior Product Manager you will be responsible for accelerating Handshakes revenue growth by optimizing pricing and packaging strategies improving employer conversion funnels and driving monetization innovation. You will work at the intersection of product data and business strategy to unlock new revenue streams while ensuring employers of all sizes find value in Handshakes offerings.
Handshake is uniquely positioned as students transition from college to early career. With the largest network of employers and college and university partners Handshake is able to smartly bridge the connections of these organizations at scale.
Youll be part of a closeknit crossfunctional team including not just R&D but also product marketing support sales and customer successtogether building a truly gamechanging marketplace platform. At the same time youll be mindful about making a positive societal impact creating experiences that progress Handshake toward our mission of democratizing opportunity.
Your role
As a senior product manager youll plan and deliver a roadmap to:
- Develop scalable and flexible pricing and packaging solutions: support diverse employer segments ensuring accessibility while driving maximum lifetime value (LTV). Identify productled growth opportunities to increase selfserve employer activation and drive efficient acquisition.
- Leverage datadriven experimentation:optimize employer conversion rates pricing sensitivity and engagement across different customer segments. Identify friction points in the hiring flow and drive interventions that maximize revenue potential while preserving user trust and experience.
- Drive marketplace value: identify the key areas of value creation across all 3 sides of the network and align the employer product and UX to maximize these
- Plan for scale: evaluate highleverage areas of the product in service of Handshakes continued growth to new student populations partner types and geographic regions
Youll own the lifecycle endtoend for your product area including:
- Product development process: Youll lead a high performing crossfunctional team partner with engineering and design partners from research and roadmap planning to sprintlevel delivery. Youll work closely with data science and revenue operations teams to uncover insights on employer behavior pricing elasticity and feature adoption to drive monetization experiments. Youll translate findings into actionable product roadmap decisions.
- Launch and adoption: Partner closely on gotomarket and implementation working with marketing sales and customer success. You never hesitate to roll up your sleeves and tackle something handson. Its never someone elses problem. Youll run beta programs and pilots to maximize learning and minimize code investment getting close to the customer and the details through the process.
- CrossHandshake partnership: Work with stakeholders across the employer business and the other sides of the Handshake ecosystem (Education and Student) to bring our partners along as we innovate quickly
- Goals metrics and tracking: Create a robust and clear thread of data from strategy through development through inmarket iteration.
Your experience
Strong foundation in roadmap development and releasing products for complex multifaceted marketplace businesses or SaaS platforms ideally in SaaS or B2B2C marketplace like Handshake.
5 years partnering with engineering teams to ship code. Ideally in a manystakeholder environment with dependencies and collaboration.
Extensive experience presenting both internally and externally including working with customers users and internal crossfunctional partners and executives.
Focused on the customer. Youve developed compelling products by diving deep into the world of the user understanding their goals motivations words and actions relating to the problems we solve. You listen and explore and are able to guide research and customer conversations to yield truly applicable findings. You can separate the needs of the customer and the user and serve both parties.
You are confident using data with judgment of its limitations and the minimum information needed to make decisions. Youve partnered with data scientists for complex investigations while also pulling data yourself and setting up dashboards for ongoing tracking.
Youre confident in making complex tradeoffs and educating all stakeholders on those tradeoffs through the process. You can point to times where you havent shipped exactly what people have asked for and yet created high satisfaction for the product.
Missionaligned. You have a true passion for and commitment to Handshakes mission. You show up each day to help schools serve all students no matter who they are or where they come from to find and build a meaningful career.
Bonus areas of expertise
- Development of SMB/Mid Market products that connect to a marketplace
- Technical fluency either as an engineer or having built complex products with engineers
Compensation range
- $170000 $220000
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 (unless noted in the specific job posting). 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 (not Contract) 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.
- 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 3x 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 13 standardized holidays and 2 additional days of flexible holiday time off. Lastly we have a Winter #ShakeBreak a oneweek period of Collective Time Off.
- Handshake offers $500 home office stipend for you to spend during your first 3 months to create a productive and comfortable workspace at home.
- Family support: Parental leave coaching and support provided by Parentaly. We partner with Maven Clinic to provide a lifetime coverage up to $15K for expenses related to fertility and family forming!
- Lifestyle Savings Account: We offer you an annual stipend of $500 to use for purchasessuch as fitness classes gym memberships workfromhomesetup and more.
(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:
Senior IC
Employment Type
Full-Time
