Backed by Kleiner Perkins and Lightspeed.
About the role
As a Senior Product Designer II on the Jobs team at Handshake, you'll design the core experience that millions of students rely on to find and land their next opportunity—job search, job application, and everything that happens after someone hits "apply." You'll also help shape the Home experience, the surface where students land and discover what's relevant to them, ensuring it connects seamlessly into the broader jobs journey.
What they're looking for
- 5+ years of product design experience, ideally building consumer-facing products at scale
- Experience designing complex, multi-step flows (e.g., search, application, checkout, onboarding) where completion and drop-off really matter
- Strong communicator who can clearly explain design decisions, tradeoffs, and the thinking behind them to product and engineering partners
- Solid visual and interaction design skills, with a track record of shipping high-quality experiences
- Comfortable using qualitative and quantitative insights (user research, funnel data, experiment results) to inform and validate design decisions
- Comfortable incorporating generative AI tools into the design process to accelerate ideation, prototyping, and iteration
More about this role
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 history. From freelance AI training gigs to first internships to full-time careers, Handshake is where professional journeys begin and evolve. That unique position is driving extraordinary growth: in 2025, we tripled our ARR at scale.
As a Senior Product Designer II on the Jobs team at Handshake, you'll design the core experience that millions of students rely on to find and land their next opportunity—job search, job application, and everything that happens after someone hits "apply." You'll also help shape the Home experience, the surface where students land and discover what's relevant to them, ensuring it connects seamlessly into the broader jobs journey.
This team owns one of the most heavily used, highest-stakes surfaces on Handshake. You'll work closely with product, engineering, data science, and content partners to make job...
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