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Build and scale growth products across onboarding, activation, retention, and notifications. Design distributed systems for millions of users, collaborate with product managers and data scientists on experiments, and ship measurable improvements. Mentor engineers, guide technical direction, and balance rapid iteration with production reliability. The role focuses on backend or full-stack development, experimentation platforms, and consumer-facing growth products.

Support Handshake’s global privacy program through vendor and subprocessor reviews, privacy assessments, records management, consent and tracking administration, individual rights requests, customer audits, incident response, privacy notices, regulatory monitoring, product and AI reviews, training, and workflow operations. The role collaborates with Legal, Security, Finance, Product, Engineering, Marketing, Sales, and Customer Success while escalating complex matters for legal review.

Support Finance and Central Operations by building dashboards, reporting, automated data pipelines, reconciliations, controls, and analytics. Analyze revenue, expenses, margins, cash flows, payment volumes, disputes, exceptions, and processing performance. Partner with Finance and Payment Operations to investigate discrepancies, automate workflows, improve data quality, and translate business questions into reliable models and actionable insights.

Own Handshake’s employer-side product marketing strategy, positioning, category narrative, thought leadership, launches, and go-to-market messaging. Lead and develop a team of 3–4 product marketers while partnering with Product, Sales, Marketing, and executive leadership. The role focuses on repositioning Handshake as a strategic hiring partner for employers and CHROs, driving market awareness, adoption, and revenue.

Lead legal support for AI products, platforms, data infrastructure, enterprise offerings, and career technology. Advise product, research, engineering, operations, and go-to-market teams on AI training data, intellectual property, privacy, regulated data, commercial relationships, contractor platforms, and AI governance. Build scalable legal review workflows, playbooks, templates, provenance documentation, and self-service guidance while partnering with commercial counsel and frontier AI labs.

Own the visual and interaction quality of an AI-native recruiting product, from exploration through launch. Lead the Employer design system, maintain alignment between Figma and code, define motion and micro-interactions, and elevate team craft through reviews, pairing, and design principles. Partner with product, engineering, data, and employer-experience designers to create a coherent, enterprise-grade product with strong visual hierarchy, simplicity, and consumer-quality polish.

Build and grow Handshake AI’s Fellow community through engagement, advocacy, retention, content, email communications, and crisis response. Own programs such as referrals, advisory boards, and STAR Fellows, while partnering with the AI team to ensure accurate messaging. The role requires consumer-facing marketing, online community growth, strong writing, program design, and sound judgment managing negative sentiment.

Develop and deploy machine learning models for lifecycle optimization, personalized notifications, and monetization. Collaborate with senior engineers, data scientists, and product managers to improve user experience and marketplace metrics. Work with embedding retrieval, Graph Neural Networks, ranking systems, experimentation, production deployment, and responsible AI practices including fairness, explainability, and quality.

Build and maintain developer tools for builds, testing, code review, merging, and coding agents. Improve build speed, test reliability, failure explanations, automated reviews, and secure release processes. Use developer feedback, surveys, logs, metrics, and traces to identify problems and measure improvements. Collaborate with engineers through documentation, code reviews, and working sessions while independently delivering clearly defined projects.

Own the architecture and evolution of Handshake’s go-to-market systems, including Salesforce, Gainsight, Nooks, Clay, and AI tools. Design workflows and data models across pipeline, quoting, renewals, and expansion; integrate systems; evaluate vendors; improve adoption and reporting; and manage internal teams and external Salesforce consultants. The role combines hands-on configuration and development with systems strategy, governance, stakeholder partnership, and build-versus-buy decisions.