Staff Product Designer

Join Handshake, a company dedicated to helping people build meaningful careers in the AI economy. As a Staff Product Designer on the Network team, you will design experiences that introduce millions to Handshake and help them build lasting professional relationships. You will own the end-to-end experience across acquisition, onboarding, activation, referrals, and network growth, creating intuitive and engaging experiences. You will work closely with product, engineering, marketing, data science, and brand teams to define problems, shape product strategy, and deliver exceptional consumer experiences.

• Posséder l'expérience de conception de produits de bout en bout, de la conception initiale à l'itération post-lancement.
• Collaborer étroitement avec les équipes produit, ingénierie, marketing, science des données et contenu pour définir les problèmes et façonner la stratégie produit.
• Concevoir des expériences intuitives et engageantes qui aident les utilisateurs à découvrir des opportunités et à se connecter à leurs communautés.
• Deeply motivated by Handshake's mission and committed to helping people build meaningful careers in the AI economy
• Comfortable incorporating generative AI tools into the design process to accelerate ideation, prototyping, and iteration, while maintaining a high bar for product thinking, craft, and user experience
• Gritty and hands-on. You're willing to roll up your sleeves and take ownership—nothing is "someone else's problem."
• Curious and always learning, with a growth mindset
• 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 consumer experiences that drive measurable impact
• Experience designing products with millions of active users, ideally in social, marketplace, network-driven, or consumer growth environments
• Comfortable using qualitative and quantitative insights to inform design decisions, evaluate experiments, and iterate quickly
• Design-led thinker who raises the bar by embedding design thinking into product development and helping others grow
• Experience designing for growth, including acquisition, onboarding, activation, engagement, referrals, or other user lifecycle experiences
• 7+ years of product design experience, ideally building consumer-facing products at scale
• Highly collaborative. You value diverse perspectives and partner effectively across engineering, product, data science, marketing, and brand
• Impact-driven. You prioritize ruthlessly and focus on the work that matters most
• Familiarity with product-led growth, network effects, marketplaces, or multi-sided platforms
• Experience designing growth experiences, including onboarding, referrals, social sharing, viral loops, SEO/content surfaces, or registration optimization
• Passion for early-career professionals, the future of work, or the intersection of AI and human potential