# Staff Product Designer, Handshake AI at Handshake

- Company: Handshake
- What the company does: Backed by Kleiner Perkins and Lightspeed.
- Company website: http://www.joinhandshake.com/
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Senior
- Location: San Francisco, CA
- Work setup: Remote
- Pay: $225K to $250K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-09-23
- Apply by: 2026-11-07
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/handshake/935ec25d-e7d3-4e53-8752-3fffa6b0b584
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/handshake-staff-product-designer-handshake-ai/

## About the role

Collaborate closely with Quality, Coding, RLE, and Fellow Experience teams—your work enables theirs. Hands-on, willing to roll up your sleeves and take ownership—nothing is “someone else’s problem”.

## What they're looking for

- 7+ years of product design experience, ideally working on highly complex, interactive products
- 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 scalable 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

Tags: Design