About Handshake
Handshake is building the career network for the AI economy, backed by the largest and most trusted job network on the internet. As the only three-sided job marketplace connecting 18 million knowledge workers, 1,500 educational institutions, and 1 million employers, Handshake powers career discovery, hiring, and upskilling—from first internships to full-time roles, freelance work to gig work, and beyond.
Founded in 2014, we’ve built the most trusted platform for early talent—owning the college-to-career market and powering nearly every career center. Today we’re building on that foundation to help students and early professionals upskill or reskill for the future.
Now’s a great time to join Handshake. Here’s why:
Category Leader: Over 92% coverage across US universities & 77% of total US university student population.
Proven Market Demand: Deep employer partnerships across Fortune 500s and the world’s leading AI research labs.
World-Class Team: Leadership from Scale AI, Open AI, xAI, Notion, Coinbase, and Palantir, just to name a few.
Capitalized & Scaling: $434M raised with a $175M+ run rate.
About the Role
Organize, craft, and iterate on large, strategic initiatives: you'll use data, research, and product thinking to inform your work
Develop and iterate content systems, patterns, and style guidelines, ensuring our language remains concise, clear, accessible, and usable while conveying complex information to audiences in a very wide range of fields
Contribute to design workshops, usability testing, and content critiques
Collaborate closely with your partners, both cross-functionally and within design: product design, research, PM, engineering, operations, analytics, design systems, brand, marketing – to ship and iterate on strategic, well-thought-out, great-to-use products that make real impact for both our fellows, operators, and customer labs
Help your team succeed: raise the bar on culture, operations, and execution of design work, including product narratives, voice and tone, product reasoning, systems thinking, prototyping, ability to facilitate conversations with and present to stakeholders, stellar teamwork and mentoring
Strengthen the overall product organization's ability to experiment, iterate, and learn alongside your product organization to lead teammates; develop well-informed strategic visions of where we're headed, collaborate to break them into pragmatic phases to scaffold our way forward
Desired Capabilities
You've designed and shipped products that customers love, and can systematically, clearly articulate what it took to make that happen, from high-level strategy down to word-level decision-making
You know how to roll data, research, business goals, technical constraints, and customer needs together into strongly-crafted content; you iterate fast, ensure you gather feedback, and use strategic reasoning to inform your decisions
You relish using your content skills to bring clarity and simplicity to both process and product
You're humble and kind, excited to keep learning and teaching, and curious about the workings of a new technology, industry, and ever-evolving team / product surface area
Extra Credit
Extra bonus if you're experienced working in educational technology, learning platforms, AI
Perks
Handshake delivers benefits that help you feel supported—and thrive at work and in life.
The below benefits are for full-time US employees.
🎯 Ownership: Equity in a fast-growing company
💰 Financial Wellness: 401(k) match, competitive compensation, financial coaching
🍼 Family Support: Paid parental leave, fertility benefits, parental coaching
💝 Wellbeing: Medical, dental, and vision, mental health support, $500 wellness stipend
📚 Growth: $2,000 learning stipend, ongoing development
💻 Remote & Office: Stipends for home office setup, internet, commuting, and free lunch/gym in our SF office
🏝 Time Off: Flexible PTO, 15 holidays + 2 flex days, winter #ShakeBreak where our whole office closes for a week!
🤝 Connection: Team outings & referral bonuses
Explore our mission, values, and comprehensive US benefits atjoinhandshake.com/careers.
