Staff Product Designer, Handshake AI

About Handshake & Handshake AI

Handshake was founded on the belief that everyone deserves a path to a great career. Today, we power 25 million job seekers, 1 million+ employers, and 1,600 educational institutions.

In 2025, we started Handshake AI to build a leading AI data business, working directly with frontier AI lab researchers to create evaluations, publish benchmarks, and push the boundary of data. Handshake AI supports frontier AI labs by delivering complex data at scale.

Your Role

• Partner with product, engineering, data, research, and operations to build and extend the tasking experience—the central platform to shape frontier AI models.
• Develop strategic product visions and collaborate with partners to sequence them into pragmatic phases.
• Collaborate closely with Quality, Coding, RLE, and Fellow Experience teams.
• 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.
• Raise the bar for design culture and execution through systems thinking, product reasoning, pixel-level precision, facilitation, and mentoring.

Your Experience

• 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.
• 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.
• Hands-on with willingness to roll up sleeves and take ownership.
• Deeply motivated by Handshake's mission; humble, kind, and curious.
• Bonus: Experience in model training, conversational AI, or task management systems at a high-growth company.