Senior Product Designer

As a Senior Product Designer II on the Jobs team at Handshake, you’ll design the core experience that millions of students rely on to find and land their next opportunity—job search, job application, and everything that happens after someone hits “apply.” You’ll also help shape the Home experience, the surface where students land and discover what’s relevant to them, ensuring it connects seamlessly into the broader jobs journey This team owns one of the most heavily used, highest-stakes surfaces on Handshake You’ll work closely with product, engineering, data science, and content partners to make job discovery faster, applications easier, and the post-application experience clearer and less anxiety-inducing—turning a process students often find opaque and stressful into one that feels transparent and within their control Own design across the end-to-end jobs experience: search and discovery, job details, application flow, and post-application status and follow-up Partner with product, engineering, data science, and content teams to define problems, propose solutions, and ship polished, high-quality experiences Contribute to the Home experience, helping ensure what students see first sets them up to succeed in their job search Translate user research, behavioral data, and qualitative feedback into design decisions that improve match quality, application completion, and student confidence throughout the process Rapidly iterate through wireframes, prototypes, and experiments to test and validate design directions Collaborate with a Staff Designer and design leadership to ensure your work ladders up to the broader Jobs and Network strategy Bring strong craft to every surface you touch—visual design, interaction design, and attention to the small details that make an experience feel trustworthy and easy to use Benefits Health Insurance: Comprehensive medical , dental, and vision coverage Fertility and family forming: Through a partnership, Handshake offers comprehensive family benefits, including infertility treatments and a $15K stipend, to its employees. LGTBQ+ coverage: All medical plans cover transgender services. Mental health: Discounts on a variety of wellness apps and an Employee Assistance Program with access to five free counseling sessions. Tax savings: Tax-advantaged benefits to save money on healthcare, dependent care, and other expenses. Life & disability insurance: Essential benefits and automatic coverage with basic life insurance, plus short-term and long-term disability coverage. 401k match: Dollar-for-dollar match up to 1% of pay, with a max of $1,200 per year. Equity: Our equity program includes grants at hire, refresher grants after two years of tenure, and grants alongside promotions. Financial management: Handshake partners to provide free professional financial planning services. Learning & development: Employees are provided with an annual stipend to use towards professional development, career development workshops, manager trainings, and 1-on-1 coaching through external partnerships Community leader support: Employee Resource Group leaders are compensated with a quarterly bonus for the high-impact work the role requires Parental leave: Leaves of 16 weeks for birth-giving parents and 10 weeks for non-birth-giving parents; the policy applies to adoptions as well. Handshake also partners to provide one-on-one coaching on preparing for leave and coming back from leave Flexible time off: No accrued time off or waiting period to take vacation. Two paid flexible holiday days off to observe holidays that closely align with religious, cultural, and personal needs Sabbatical: Paid six-week sabbatical to recharge and reset beginning at six years of continuous, full-time employment, and every four years thereafter Volunteer time off: Two days off for social and civil activism, volunteer work, and/or any related activities, including attending and participating in protests Comfortable using qualitative and quantitative insights (user research, funnel data, experiment results) to inform and validate design decisionsExperience designing complex, multi-step flows (e.g., search, application, checkout, onboarding) where completion and drop-off really matterGritty and hands-on—willing to dig into ambiguous problems and take ownership of your surface areaSolid visual and interaction design skills, with a track record of shipping high-quality experiencesImpact-driven, able to prioritize and focus on what matters most for students trying to land a jobHighly collaborative, with the ability to work effectively across product, engineering, data science, and contentDeeply motivated by Handshake’s mission and committed to helping students build meaningful careers in the AI economyStrong communicator who can clearly explain design decisions, tradeoffs, and the thinking behind them to product and engineering partners5+ years of product design experience, ideally building consumer-facing products at scaleComfortable incorporating generative AI tools into the design process to accelerate ideation, prototyping, and iterationDetail-oriented and craft-driven, with a bias toward getting the small things rightCurious and always learning, with a growth mindsetExperience with application/funnel flows where conversion and completion rate are key metricsExperience designing search, discovery, or marketplace matching experiencesFamiliarity with career services, recruiting, or early-career talent pipelinesExperience designing “home” or landing surfaces that personalize content for different user segments #J-18808-Ljbffr