Staff Product Designer

### Who you are
- 7+ years of product design experience, ideally working on enterprise products, operations tooling, or internal platforms
- 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 complex 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
- Impact-driven, with the ability to prioritize ruthlessly and focus on the work that matters most
- Hands-on, willing to roll up your sleeves and take ownership—nothing is “someone else’s problem”
- Deeply motivated by Handshake’s mission. Humble, kind, and curious, with a desire to keep learning and help others grow
- Bonus if you have experience in operator or driver management, workflow or task management systems, or building internal tools for operations teams at a high-growth company

### What the job involves
- Shape how every career evolves in the AI economy, at global scale, with impact your friends, family and peers can see and feel
- Work hand-in-hand with world-class AI labs, Fortune 500 partners and the world’s top educational institutions
- Join a team with leadership from Scale AI, Meta, xAI, Notion, Coinbase, and Palantir, among others
- Build a massive, fast-growing business with billions in revenue
- Partner with product, engineering, data, research, and operations to define and build the vision for operator independence and self-serve tooling
- Develop strategic product visions and collaborate with partners to sequence them into pragmatic phases
- Collaborate closely with Model Enablement and Fellow Experience squads—your work enables theirs
- Partner with operations leaders and stay close to operators’ workflows. Run pilots, shadow users, uncover pain points, and translate insights into prioritized investments
- Tackle complex, ambiguous human-centered problems and translate them into clear, simple solutions
- Own design end-to-end—from concept through production—iterating quickly through research, user journeys, wireframes, prototypes, and high-fidelity designs with a strong point of view on craft
- Raise the bar for design culture and execution through systems thinking, product reasoning, pixel-level precision, facilitation, and mentoring

### Benefits
- Health Insurance: Comprehensive medical , dental, and vision coverage
- Fertility and family forming: Through a partnership, Handshake offers comprehensive family benefits, including infertility treatments and a $15K stipend, to its employees.
- LGTBQ+ coverage: All medical plans cover transgender services.
- Mental health: Discounts on a variety of wellness apps and an Employee Assistance Program with access to five free counseling sessions.
- Tax savings: Tax-advantaged benefits to save money on healthcare, dependent care, and other expenses.
- Life & disability insurance: Essential benefits and automatic coverage with basic life insurance, plus short-term and long-term disability coverage.
- 401k match: Dollar-for-dollar match up to 1% of pay, with a max of $1,200 per year.
- Equity: Our equity program includes grants at hire, refresher grants after two years of tenure, and grants alongside promotions.
- Financial management: Handshake partners to provide free professional financial planning services.
- Learning & development: Employees are provided with an annual stipend to use towards professional development, career development workshops, manager trainings, and 1-on-1 coaching through external partnerships
- Community leader support: Employee Resource Group leaders are compensated with a quarterly bonus for the high-impact work the role requires
- Parental leave: Leaves of 16 weeks for birth-giving parents and 10 weeks for non-birth-giving parents; the policy applies to adoptions as well. Handshake also partners to provide one-on-one coaching on preparing for leave and coming back from leave
- Flexible time off: No accrued time off or waiting period to take vacation. Two paid flexible holiday days off to observe holidays that closely align with religious, cultural, and personal needs
- Sabbatical: Paid six-week sabbatical to recharge and reset beginning at six years of continuous, full-time employment, and every four years thereafter
- Volunteer time off: Two days off for social and civil activism, volunteer work, and/or any related activities, including attending and participating in protests