Senior Product Designer, Handshake
Consumer
$150-180k
Plus equity
3 days a week in office
College career network and job board
Open for applications
College career network and job board
501-1000 employees
Open for applications
$150-180k
Plus equity
3 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
- User-focused: You deeply understand and advocate for your users, grounding your approach in data and research
- Craft leader: Your expertise in visual and interaction design transforms the products you touch, resulting in high-quality experiences that resonate with users
- Detail-oriented: You strive for perfection in every aspect, delivering a flawless and user-friendly product
- Consumer experience: 4-7 years of designing consumer experiences across multiple platforms, including web, iOS, and Android
- Complex problem solver: You navigate, define, and drive complex design challenges, balancing user needs with business goals
- Data-informed: Comfortable using quantitative and qualitative data for tactical and strategic decision-making, as well as rapid iteration
What the job involves
- We are seeking a Senior Designer to help us deliver a world-class consumer experience
- More than half of college students in the US have a profile on Handshake, but they primarily use the platform as a transactional job board. To fully realize our mission and goals, we need to better engage students through content and community—and in this role, you will be critical to ensuring this
- Ultimately, we believe Handshake can give every student access to the career-defining power of a supportive community and we need your help to make that happen!
- This role will require you to span from strategy to execution, bringing a talent for creating seamless user experiences informed by data and user insights. Collaborating with product managers, researchers, content designers, and engineers, you will be a crucial player in driving the future of community building and democratizing information on Handshake
- Work from concept to delivery to inform product strategy to help more college students and career switchers get jobs
- Partner with product, research, content, data science, and engineering to ensure projects are well-defined, high impact, and successfully executed
- Develop and improve a shared product design language across all surfaces reflective of our brand
- Establish design processes so we can scale efficiently and effectively
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
- 💰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
- 💝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 $2,000/£1,500 stipend for you to grow your skills and career
- 🏦401k Match: Handshake offers a dollar-for-dollar match on 1% of deferred salary, up to a maximum of $1,200 per year
- 🏝 All full-time US-based 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 Summer and Winter #ShakeBreak, two one-week periods of Collective Time Off
Company HQ
Financial District, San Francisco, CA
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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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