Staff Product Designer, Handshake AI

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 $60M to over 30K individuals every month.

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 Palantir Meta Scale AI and former YC founders

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

About Handshake AI

Human data is the core infrastructure to AI advancement. Frontier AI labs currently improve model capabilities with various data-intensive post-training techniques. We believe that data spend for AI training will increase by 3-5x in the next few years and continue for much longer as models take on new domains. Handshake AI supports all of the frontier AI labs working on their most complex data at the largest scale.

• 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 squadsyour 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-endfrom concept through productioniterating 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.

• 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 ownershipnothing is someone elses problem.

• Deeply motivated by Handshakes 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.

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: $2000 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

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