Senior Product Designer, Consumer

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From the start, we’ve made it our mission to break down barriers and create equitable access to great jobs. With our most recent round of funding, we’re expanding our mission to build a platform students love, that helps early talent of all backgrounds receive access to opportunities – no matter who they know or where they go to school. Learn more about Handshake’s $80M Series E funding round.

Handshake is the largest early career network, helping millions of students from all backgrounds get hired and launch their careers with no connections, experience, or luck required. The Handshake community includes 18 million students and young alumni (9 million active students & alumni) from 1,400 educational institutions including four-year colleges, community colleges, boot camps, and 290+ minority-serving institutions. We connect up-and-coming talent across all 50 states with 600,000+ employers recruiting on Handshake - from every Fortune 500 company to thousands of small businesses, nonprofits, startups, and more. Handshake is headquartered in San Francisco with offices in Denver, New York, and London.

Everyone is welcome at Handshake. We know diverse teams build better products and we are committed to creating an inclusive culture built on a foundation of respect for all individuals. We strongly encourage candidates from non-traditional backgrounds, historically marginalized or underrepresented groups to apply.

If you are not sure that you’re 100% qualified, but up for the challenge – we want you to apply. We believe skills are transferable and passion for our mission goes a long way.

Design at Handshake

We’re designing the future of career discovery and recruiting for students; from their initial school acceptance letters to their first job offers, we’re committed to understanding and supporting each student as they navigate one of life’s most complex journeys.

Our design team is growing and we cover a lot of ground. We collaborate with every team across Handshake—from product management to engineering; from sales to support—because incorporating insights from across the business leads to better design outcomes. Creativity thrives in diverse environments, and we’re committed to growing a design team that reflects the diversity of students we serve and support.

Your Impact

Handshake is hiring a Senior Student Product Designer working on our job and event search surface areas. Along with job search, this squad is dedicated to getting smarter about students and pairs closely with Data Science. In order to successfully match students with opportunities, we need to better understand who they are and their preferences. Your designs will help us be more intentional about what we collect, continue to use behavioral data to augment that and ensure that students understand the value of Handshake through stronger personalization.

Your Role

  • Work from concept to delivery to inform product strategy and shape students’ career discovery experience.
  • Partner with product, research, and engineering to ensure projects are well defined, high impact, and successfully executed.
  • Develop and improve a shared product design language across all student surfaces reflective of our brand.
  • Up level the entire team through commitment to growth and mentorship

Your Experience

  • Demonstrated experience leading design on consumer products across web and mobile.
  • Familiarity with human centered/user centered design methodology and techniques
  • Experience working with engineers and product managers to drive strategy, vision, and execution
  • A collaborative, no ego, approach to working with others
  • A portfolio of impeccably executed consumer product design
  • University degree in Human-Computer Interaction, Human Centered Design, Sociology, Psychology, Information Science, Computer Science, or equivalent experience

Compensation

$127,000-$156,000

Benefits

  • Stock: Ownership in a fast-growing company.
  • 401k: We care about your ability to save for your future.
  • Family Focus: Parental leave and flexibility for families.
  • Time Off: Flexible vacation policy to encourage people to get out and see the world.
  • Healthcare: World-class medical, dental, and vision policies.
  • Goodies: Whatever hardware and software you need to get the job done.
  • Team Fun: Regularly scheduled events, sports, game nights, book clubs.
  • Learning: Learning & Development opportunities for you to grow your skills and career.
  • Great team: Working with fun, hardworking, nice people who are committed to making a difference!
  • ...and much more!

We value diversity of all kinds, and are committed to building a diverse and inclusive workplace where we learn from each other. We are an equal opportunity employer and welcome people of all different backgrounds, experiences, abilities and perspectives.

Interested in what Handshake’s San Francisco HQ is like when we’re together? Check out this video: Just browsing or not ready to apply? Keep in touch with us!

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We're located right in the center of everything in the financial district of downtown San Francisco. We're just 1 block from Montgomery St Bart!

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