About Handshake

In 2014 Handshake was founded on a simple belief that everyone deserves a path to a great career regardless of where they went to school or who they know. Today we power 25 million job seekers 1 million employers and 1600 educational institutions.

In 2025 we started Handshake AI and built the fastest-growing AI data business in history. We work directly with frontier AI lab researchers to create evaluations publish benchmarks and push the boundary of data. Weve grown from $0 to $1B run rate and pay $15M to 30K individuals every week.

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

• Partner hand-in-hand with world-class AI labs Fortune 500 partners and the worlds top educational institutions

• Work together with engineers scientists operators and more from Scale AI Palantir Meta and former YC founders

• Build a massive fast-growing business with billions in revenue

The Role

Handshakes grown to $1B in revenue in record time and weve hired over 25 ex-founders along the way.

This role is different.

Were looking for an Entrepreneur to join the CEO Office. Youll partner directly with our founders and exec team and tackle the hardest problems at Handshake building 0-to-1 motions across product GTM operations and more.

That could mean standing up a new internal capability driving a top priority from idea to execution building the operating system for an emerging part of the business or stepping into an urgent company-wide problem and creating order out of ambiguity. Youll be expected to go deep quickly build strong points of view align stakeholders and personally drive intiatives forward.

Youll have high ownership and directly contribute to the success of the company.

Who were looking for

• A past founder early employee at a fast-growing startup or with experience in the venture ecosystem

• Have ambitions of becoming a founder in the future

• Spiky in at least one domain well-rounded in others

• Killer operator who can build 0-to-1 initiatives in product GTM operations and other areas with the CEO

• Gifted communicator to accelerate the organization by driving alignment internally and represent Handshake to external tech and AI communities

• Move fast drive outcomes and leave nothing to chance

Compensation & Benefits

For cash compensation we set standard ranges for all U.S.-based roles based on function level and geographic location benchmarked against similar stage growth 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.

Perks: Handshake delivers benefits that help you feel supportedand 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: $2000 learning stipend ongoing development

• Remote & Office: Stipends for home office setup internet commuting and free lunch/gym in our SF office

Equal Employment Opportunity

Handshake is committed to building a diverse and inclusive team. We are an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion sex national origin age disability veteran status sexual orientation gender identity or expression or any other basis protected by applicable law.

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