# Staff Product Designer, Student Experience at Handshake

- Company: Handshake
- What the company does: Backed by Kleiner Perkins and Lightspeed.
- Company website: http://www.joinhandshake.com/
- Type: Startups
- Level: Senior
- Location: San Francisco, CA
- Work setup: Remote
- Pay: $225K to $250K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-09-04
- Apply by: 2026-10-19
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/handshake/b80bc193-ed11-468c-be6c-485cacd2b33c
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/handshake-staff-product-designer-student-experience/

## About the role

As a Staff Product Designer on the Student Experience team at Handshake, you'll shape how millions of students discover jobs, build careers, and navigate one of the most consequential transitions in their lives. You'll own the end-to-end experience across job discovery and matching, resume building, interview prep, and long-term career planning — with a growing part of that experience powered by an AI agent that acts on a student's behalf, not just responds to their queries.

## What they're looking for

- 7+ years of product design experience, ideally building consumer-facing products at scale
- A track record of owning complex, end-to-end product experiences — not just individual features or flows
- Experience designing AI-powered or agentic products — systems that take action, make recommendations, or automate tasks on a user's behalf, not just conversational chat interfaces — is a strong plus
- Strong communicator who clearly articulates design decisions, tradeoffs, user insights, and the thinking behind them to partners and leadership
- Deep visual and interaction design expertise, with a proven track record of shipping high-quality experiences that drive measurable impact
- Experience designing for trust, transparency, and control — helping users understand what a system is doing and why, and feel confident acting on its recommendations

Tags: Design