Handshake
Staff Product Designer
San Francisco, CA · Staff+ · Contract
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About the role
- Experience designing for growth, including acquisition, onboarding, activation, engagement, referrals, or other user lifecycle experiences.
- You prioritize ruthlessly and focus on the work that matters most.
Responsibilities
- As a Staff Product Designer on the Network team at Handshake, you'll design the experiences that introduce millions of people to Handshake and help them build lasting professional relationships throughout their careers.
- This team sits at the heart of Handshake's growth strategy, shaping how users first discover the platform, build their professional network, and develop habits that keep them coming back.
- You'll work on high-impact consumer experiences where exceptional craft, experimentation, and user psychology come together to drive meaningful business outcomes.
- As a Staff Designer, you'll help define the future of the Handshake network while partnering closely with product, engineering, data science, marketing, and brand to build products that millions of people use.
- Partner closely with product, engineering, marketing, data science, and content teams to define problems, shape product strategy, and deliver exceptional consumer experiences.
- Own design end-to-end, from early concept through post-launch iteration: user flows, interaction prototypes, high-fidelity mocks, and collaboration through implementation.
- Design experiences across acquisition, onboarding, activation, referrals, and network growth that help users quickly discover value and build lasting engagement.
- Tackle complex, ambiguous consumer design problems by translating behavioral insights and user needs into simple, intuitive experiences.
- Partner with cross-functional teams to design and refine growth experiments across landing pages, onboarding flows, referral programs, viral mechanics, and conversion touchpoints.
- Obsess over craft, bringing a strong point of view on visual design, interaction design, and systems thinking while maintaining a relentless focus on user outcomes.
Requirements
- Familiarity with product-led growth, network effects, marketplaces, or multi-sided platforms.
Nice to have
- Experience designing products with millions of active users, ideally in social, marketplace, network-driven, or consumer growth environments.
Compensation
- 💰 Financial Wellness: 401(k) match, competitive compensation, financial coaching
Benefits
- Handshake delivers benefits that help you feel supported and thrive at work and in life.
- The below benefits are for full-time US employees.
- 🎯 Ownership: Equity in a fast-growing company
- 💰 Financial Wellness: 401(k) match, competitive compensation, financial coaching
- 🍼 Family Support: Paid parental leave, fertility benefits, parental coaching
- 💝 Wellbeing: Medical, dental, and vision, mental health support, $500 wellness stipend
- 📚 Growth: $2,000 learning stipend, ongoing development
- 🏝 Time Off: Flexible PTO, 15 holidays + 2 flex days
- Explore our mission, values, and comprehensive US benefits at joinhandshake.com/careers http://joinhandshake.com/careers. http://joinhandshake.com/careers.Your
- Curious and always learning, with a growth mindset.
- 💻 Remote & Office: Internet, commuting, and free lunch/gym in our SF office
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