Your Impact: 

Handshake is hiring a Lead Product Manager reporting to the VP of Product on the Employer team. Employers already account for a lion’s share of Handshake’s revenue and we expect this growth to continue as we scale our SaaS offering and define the category of proactive, data-driven recruiting for entry level (college) talent. 

While we’ve made impressive strides in becoming the market leader in college jobs, recruiting events, and employer outreach, we’re just getting started. You’ll build on this foundation, creating new products and reimagining existing ones to transform how employers form trust-based relationships with students.

You’ll be part of a close-knit cross-functional team including not just R&D but also demand generation, marketing operations, product marketing, sales, customer success and insights - together building a truly game-changing SaaS platform. At the same time, you’ll be mindful about making positive societal impact, including improving diversity, equity and inclusion in entry level recruiting.

Your Role:

As a lead product manager, you’ll plan and deliver a roadmap to:  

• Expand and innovate: our employer product offering to transform the recruiting process, and provide ever increasing value to our Premium subscribers.

• Engage users: find opportunities to drive engagement and outcomes for employer users

• Drive marketplace value: continually strive to identify and optimize the key points of value creation across all three sides of the network

You’ll own the lifecycle end-to-end for your product area, including:

• Product development process: Leading a high performing cross-functional squad, including engineering and design partners, from research and roadmap planning to delivery 

• Launch and adoption: Partner closely on go-to-market and implementation, working with marketing, sales and customer success. You never hesitate to roll up your sleeves and tackle something hands-on. It’s never someone else’s problem. You’ll run beta programs and pilots to maximize learning and minimize code investment, getting close to the customer and the details through the process. 

• Cross-Handshake partnership: Work with stakeholders across Handshake’s largest team (the broader Employer team) and on other sides of the Handshake marketplace (EDUs and Student) to innovate quickly but deliberately

• Goals, metrics and tracking: Create a robust and clear thread of data from strategy through development through in-market iteration.

Your Experience:

• Strong foundation in roadmap development and releasing products for complex, multifaceted marketplace businesses or SaaS platforms.

• 5+ years partnering with engineering teams to ship code. Ideally in a many-stakeholder environment with dependencies and collaboration. 

• Strong systems and analytical thinker. Can connect the dots, spot challenges and edge cases, integrate multiple considerations.

• Extensive experience presenting both internally and externally including working with customers, users, and internal cross-functional partners and executives.

• Working knowledge of data-driven applications including mapping, schemas, permissions that inform user interactions and downstream analytics.

• User focused. You dive headfirst into understanding the needs of employers and build products grounded in data and research.

Bonus Areas of Expertise: 

• Development of B2B products connecting to a marketplace platform (e.g. the supplier side of an e-commerce marketplace)

Compensation Range (San Francisco): 

$171,076 - $209,092

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.

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