Staff Product Designer (Visual Design & Systems), Autonomous Recruiting

The role

You will own the visual and interaction quality of an AI-native product and its design system. You will set the craft bar for the Employer design team through design, reviews, and pairing.

What you will do

• Own the visual and interaction quality of the product's most important surfaces.
• Own the design system for the Employer design team.
• Define motion and micro-interactions.
• Raise the bar for the whole team by leading craft reviews and pairing.
• Partner closely with product, engineering, and data to shape the product experience.
• Collaborate with designers across the broader employer experience.

Required qualifications

• 8+ years of product design experience.
• Track record of setting the visual direction for a shipped B2B or prosumer product.
• Exceptional visual craft in typography, spacing, color, hierarchy, and density.
• Strong interaction and motion sense.
• Experience owning or leading a design system.
• Taste you can explain and teach.
• Fluent in code or close to it.
• Strong product thinking and a bias toward simplicity.
• Comfortable with ambiguity and rapid change.

Nice to have

• Experience designing for an AI-native product, with real thinking about chat, composer, and agent interaction patterns.

Benefits

• Equity in a fast-growing company
• 401(k) match
• Competitive compensation
• Financial coaching
• Paid parental leave
• Fertility benefits
• Parental coaching
• Medical, dental, and vision
• Mental health support
• $500 wellness stipend
• $2,000 learning stipend
• Ongoing development

About the company

Handshake is the career network built for the AI economy. It sits at the intersection of talent and opportunity for 20 million knowledge workers, 1,600 educational institutions, and 1 million employers.