Handshake

Overview

We're building a new, AI-native product from the ground up—one that reimagines how recruiters and hiring managers source, engage, and manage talent from a blank slate. As a Staff Product Designer on this team, you'll help define what it means to design a consumer-grade, craft-forward experience for a complex B2B workflow.

About Handshake

Handshake is the career network built for the AI economy. With 20 million knowledge workers, 1,600 educational institutions, 1 million employers—including 100% of the Fortune 50—and every major AI lab trusting Handshake to power career discovery, hiring, and upskilling, we sit at the intersection of talent and opportunity at a pivotal moment in his

Requirements & Eligibility

• 7+ years of product design experience, ideally on enterprise or B2B products involving complex workflows.
• 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.
• Comfortable incorporating generative AI tools into the design process to accelerate ideation, prototyping, and iteration.
• Design-led thinker who raises the bar by embedding design thinking into day-to-day work and helping others grow.
• Comfortable with ambiguity and rapid change; excited to build something from scratch rather than optimize an existing system.

Key Responsibilities

• Partner closely with product, engineering, and data teams to define problems, set goals, and shape product strategy for a new, high-visibility product area.
• Own design end-to-end, from early concept through post-launch iteration: user flows, interaction prototypes, high-fidelity mocks, and collaboration through build.
• Tackle complex and ambiguous human-centered design problems, translating them into clear, simple, consumer-grade solutions.
• Design core interaction patterns for working with AI and agents—particularly around chat, composer, and the movement between conversational and structured parts of the product.
• Rapidly iterate through wireframes and prototypes to gather feedback early and often.
• Collaborate closely with designers working on adjacent parts of the broader employer experience to ensure a coherent, unified product.