Staff Product Designer, Employer Experience

Handshake Technologies, Inc.

Job Overview

Location

San Francisco, CA

Job Type

Full-time

Full Job Description

📋 Description

• Design end-to-end product experiences for employers on Handshake’s platform to improve how they discover, connect with, and hire early-career talent.
• Own the full design lifecycle—from research and wireframing to high-fidelity prototypes and post-launch iteration—working closely with product, engineering, and data teams.
• Solve complex, ambiguous human-centered problems that directly impact employer engagement, hiring outcomes, and revenue growth for Handshake’s three-sided marketplace.
• Translate ambiguous business goals into clear, intuitive user flows and interactions that balance employer needs with student access and equity.
• Rapidly prototype and test design concepts to gather early feedback, iterate quickly, and reduce risk before development begins.
• Maintain a strong point of view on visual and interaction design, ensuring consistency, polish, and usability across all employer-facing surfaces.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define problems, set measurable goals, and align on success metrics tied to employer retention and conversion.
• Embed design thinking into daily workflows, elevating the team’s design maturity and helping others grow through mentorship and feedback.
• Prioritize ruthlessly, focusing on initiatives with the highest impact on revenue, employer satisfaction, and mission-driven outcomes.
• Take ownership of outcomes—roll up your sleeves to solve problems directly, even if they fall outside traditional design boundaries.
• Advocate for employers’ needs while ensuring the platform remains accessible and equitable for students from all educational backgrounds.
• Communicate design decisions, tradeoffs, and rationale clearly to stakeholders, leadership, and non-designers with data and user insights.
• Stay deeply aligned with Handshake’s mission to ensure every student, regardless of school or network, has a path to a great career.
• Continuously learn and adapt by studying emerging trends in B2B SaaS, AI-driven hiring, and employer behavior in the evolving job market.

🎯 Requirements

• 7+ years of product design experience, ideally on enterprise or B2B products
• Strong communicator who clearly articulates design decisions, tradeoffs, and reasoning to partners and leadership
• Deep visual and interaction design expertise with a proven track record of shipped work and measurable impact
• Highly collaborative, valuing diverse perspectives and incorporating them into the design process
• Design-led thinker who embeds design thinking into day-to-day work and helps others grow
• Impact-driven, prioritizing ruthlessly and focusing on work that matters most

🏖️ Benefits

• Equity in a fast-growing company
• 401(k) match, competitive compensation, financial coaching
• Paid parental leave, fertility benefits, parental coaching
• Medical, dental, and vision coverage, mental health support, $500 wellness stipend
• $2,000 learning stipend, ongoing development
• Internet, commuting, and free lunch/gym in SF office; flexible PTO, 15 holidays + 2 flex days
• Team outings & referral bonuses

Skills & Technologies

Design

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Remote

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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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