Staff Product Designer, Handshake AI

The role

You will partner with product, engineering, data, research, and operations to build and extend the tasking experience. You will own design end-to-end from concept through production to solve complex human-centered problems.

What you will do

• Partner with product, engineering, data, research, and operations to build and extend the tasking experience
• Develop strategic product visions and collaborate with partners to sequence them into pragmatic phases
• Collaborate closely with Quality, Coding, RLE, and Fellow Experience teams
• Partner with operations leaders and stay close to operators workflows
• Run pilots, shadow users, uncover pain points, and translate insights into prioritized investments
• Tackle complex, ambiguous human-centered problems and translate them into clear, simple solutions
• Own design end-to-end from concept through production
• Iterate through research, user journeys, wireframes, prototypes, and high-fidelity designs
• Raise the bar for design culture and execution through systems thinking, product reasoning, pixel-level precision, facilitation, and mentoring

Required qualifications

• 7+ years of product design experience
• Strong communicator who clearly articulates design decisions, tradeoffs, and the thinking behind them to partners and leadership
• Deep visual and interaction design expertise
• Proven track record of shipped work and measurable impact
• Experience designing scalable systems, workflows, or platforms with many moving parts and stakeholders
• Highly collaborative
• Design-led thinker
• Impact-driven
• Hands-on

Nice to have

• experience in model training
• conversational AI
• task management systems at a high-growth company

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 powers 25 million job seekers, 1 million+ employers, and 1,600 educational institutions. Handshake AI is a fast-growing AI data business that works with frontier AI lab researchers to create evaluations and publish benchmarks.