Senior Product Manager, Handshake
+ Equity
3-5 days a week in office
College career network and job board
Job no longer available
College career network and job board
501-1000 employees
Job no longer available
+ Equity
3-5 days a week in office
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To democratize access to opportunity and ensure any student can build a great career no matter who they know, where they live or what school they attend.
Role
Who you are
- Strong foundation in roadmap development and releasing products for complex, multifaceted marketplace businesses or SaaS platforms, ideally in SaaS or B2B2C marketplace like Handshake
- 6+ years partnering with engineering teams to ship code. Ideally in a many-stakeholder environment with dependencies and collaboration
- Extensive experience presenting both internally and externally including working with customers, users, and internal cross-functional partners and executives
- Focused on the customer. You’ve 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. You’ve partnered with analytics for complex investigations, while also pulling data yourself and setting up dashboards for ongoing tracking
- You’re confident in making complex tradeoffs and educating all stakeholders on those tradeoffs through the process. You can point to times where you haven’t shipped exactly what people have asked for, and yet created high satisfaction for the product
- Mission-aligned. You have a true passion for and commitment to Handshake’s 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
What the job involves
- Handshake is hiring a Senior Product Manager who strives to build world-class products and is looking to play a pivotal role in the evolution of the world’s fastest-growing early talent marketplace
- In this role, you will be a leader driving the next wave of innovation for Handshake’s events and fairs product, and have a significant impact on the career journey of millions of students
- As a product manager, you’ll plan and deliver a roadmap to:
- Build an engaging and best-in-class events product: build functionality that helps students discover, take part in and maximize their participation in events
- Build enterprise toolkit: provide education partners and employers with a platform that helps them to drive outcomes, deepen connection points and fully capture the end-to-end engagement lifecycle
- Drive marketplace value: identify the key areas of value creation across all 3 sides of the network, and align the education product and UX to maximize these
- Plan for scale: evaluate high-leverage areas of the product in service of Handshake’s continued growth to new student populations, partner types and geographic regions
- You’ll own the product development lifecycle end-to-end, including:
- Product development process: Leading a high performing cross-functional team, partnering with engineering and design partners from research and roadmap planning to sprint-level delivery
- Launch and adoption: Partner closely on go-to-market and implementation, working with marketing, sales and customer success. You never hesitate to roll up your sleeves and tackle something hands-on. It’s never someone else’s problem. You’ll run beta programs and pilots to maximize learning and minimize code investment, getting close to the customer and the details through the process
- Cross-Handshake partnership: Work with stakeholders across the business 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 in-market iteration
Our take
The three founders of Handshake established their company in an attempt to eliminate inequality and make the student hiring landscape fairer. The Handshake platform acts as a LinkedIn for college students, pairing students from every walk of life with more than 650K employers, including the entire Fortune 500, which includes Google and Nike.
The graduate recruitment platform is open to any student with a valid @.edu email address, with more than 12 million active users from thousands of colleges and universities. With a student-first philosophy, the company generates revenue from both universities and employers rather than students.
Valued at $3.5B, Handshake has gained traction in a competitive market, although it has strong competition from recruiting giants LinkedIn and Indeed. It stands out, however, by helping students build new relationships and skills, rather than simply making connections to people they already know.
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Jan 2022
$200m
SERIES F
May 2021
$80m
SERIES E
Total funding: $434m
Company benefits
- đź’°Equity and ownership in a fast-growing company
- 🍼16 Weeks of paid parental leave for birth giving parents & 10 weeks of paid parental leave for non-birth giving parents
- đź’ťComprehensive medical, dental, and vision policies including LGTBQ+ Coverage. We also provide resources for Mental Health Assistance, Employee Assistance Programs and counseling support
- đź’»Handshake offers $500/ÂŁ360 home office stipend for you to spend during your first 3 months to create a productive and comfortable workspace at home
- đź“šGenerous learning & development opportunities and an annual $2,000/ÂŁ1,500 stipend for you to grow your skills and career
Company HQ
Financial District, San Francisco, CA
Articles
Leadership
Garrett Lord
(Co-Founder & CEO)Majored in Computer Science at Michigan Technological University. Interned at Palantir Technologies before co-founding Handshake in 2012.
Ben Christensen
(Co-Founder)Graduated from Michigan Technological University with a degree in Computer Networking & Systems Administration. Interned at Target and worked as a Developer at Up and Running Software. Was part of Arbor Networks' ASERT Security Research team.
Scott Ringwelski
(Co-Founder)Attained a degree in Computer Software Engineering from Michigan Technological University. Co-founded Handshake in 2012.
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