Founding Product Designer (Contract), Handshake AI Enterprise

Handshake Technologies, Inc.

Job Overview

Location

San Francisco, CA

Job Type

Full-time

Full Job Description

📋 Description

• Own the end-to-end product design function for Handshake AI Enterprise, building the product layer for AI applications integrated into the workflows of Fortune 500 companies and frontier AI labs.
• Collaborate directly with product, engineering, data, research, sales, and operations teams to define and execute the product vision, from early research through high-fidelity design and prototyping.
• Engage directly with enterprise customers and operators by running pilots, shadowing workflows, uncovering pain points, and translating insights into clear, actionable design solutions.
• Develop strategic product visions, sequence them into pragmatic phases, and solve complex, ambiguous problems with a strong, craft-driven point of view.
• Operate entrepreneurially by making decisions with incomplete information, moving quickly, and creatively unblocking team progress without relying on established processes.
• Establish and elevate design culture through systems thinking, product reasoning, pixel-level precision, and facilitation of cross-functional alignment.
• Design production-grade features for complex enterprise systems, workflows, and internal platforms that are both technically feasible and delightfully usable.
• Communicate design decisions with equal clarity to executives, customers, and engineers, translating business goals and technical constraints into intuitive user experiences.
• Thrive as the sole designer in a fast-moving, high-stakes environment where scope is broad and ownership is full-cycle.
• Build and iterate on solutions informed by direct customer feedback, ensuring every design decision ties back to measurable user impact and business outcomes.
• Contribute to shaping how careers evolve in the AI economy by designing tools that empower enterprise users to leverage AI effectively at scale.
• Partner with world-class AI labs, educational institutions, and enterprise clients to co-create solutions that push the boundaries of what AI-powered workflows can achieve.
• Maintain a humble, curious, and kind approach to design, with a deep motivation for Handshake’s mission and a commitment to helping others grow.
• Leverage experience with multi-sided marketplaces, LLM products in production, operator/workflow management systems, or internal tools at high-growth companies to inform design strategy.
• Convert this contract role into a full-time position based on mutual fit, demonstrating sustained impact and alignment with the founding team’s vision.

🎯 Requirements

• 5–7+ years of product design experience, ideally on enterprise products, operations tooling, or internal platforms
• Designed and shipped production-grade features customers love across complex systems, workflows, and platforms
• Worked directly with customers and end users, connecting insights to business goals and technical constraints
• Can confidently walk a customer or executive through a design decision as easily as an engineer through a spec
• Thrive as the only designer in the room, operating independently with high ownership and minimal supervision
• Deeply motivated by Handshake’s mission and possess a humble, kind, and curious mindset

🏖️ Benefits

• Opportunity to convert from contract to full-time based on mutual fit
• Partner directly with world-class AI labs, Fortune 500 companies, and top educational institutions
• Work alongside engineers and operators from Palantir, Meta, Scale AI, and former YC founders
• Contribute to a business growing from $0 to ~$1B run rate with global impact

Skills & Technologies

Design

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About Handshake Technologies, Inc.

Handshake Technologies provides a cloud-based career-services platform that connects university students, recent graduates, and employers. The software enables institutions to manage job postings, career fairs, on-campus interviews, and employer relations while giving students tools to discover internships and entry-level roles and giving employers access to early-career talent across a network of partner colleges and universities.

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