Handshake

Founding Staff Product Designer, Handshake AI Enterprise

San Francisco, CA · Staff+ · Full-time

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About the role

Get close to enterprise customers and operators: run pilots, shadow workflows, uncover pain points, and translate what you learn into clear, simple solutions and prioritized investments.
Operate entrepreneurially: move fast, make decisions with incomplete info, and find creative ways to unblock yourself and your team.
You've worked directly with customers and end users, and know how to connect what you learn to business goals and technical constraints.

Develop strategic product visions, sequence them into pragmatic phases, and tackle complex, ambiguous problems with a strong point of view on craft.
You'll be the person who holds the bar, owning design end-to-end across every customer deployment, pairing direct customer impact with founding-team ownership, and helping establish a product that scales with us.
Raise the bar for design culture and execution through systems thinking, product reasoning, pixel-level precision, and facilitation.
Highly collaborative and a strong communicator; you value diverse perspectives, manage stakeholders well, and understand the nuance of upward and cross-functional communication.

experience with multi-sided marketplaces, LLM products in production, operator/workflow management systems, or internal tools at high-growth companies.
Your work reflects that fluency.
Highly collaborative and a strong communicator
You're comfortable being the only designer in the room
you don't need a team around you to do great work, and you thrive when the scope is wide and the stakes are high.
Deeply motivated by Handshake's mission.

💰 Financial Wellness: 401(k) match, competitive compensation, financial coaching

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.
Partner hand-in-hand with world-class AI labs, Fortune 500 partners and the world's top educational institutions
💻 Remote & Office: Internet, commuting, and free lunch/gym in our SF office

Handshake was founded on a simple belief that everyone deserves a path to a great career, regardless of where they went to school or who they know.
Today, we power 25 million job seekers, 1 million+ employers, and 1,600 educational institutions.
In 2025, we started Handshake AI and built the fastest-growing AI data business in history.
We work directly with frontier AI lab researchers to create evaluations, publish benchmarks, and push the boundary of data.
We've grown from $0 to ~$1B run rate and pay ~$60M to over 30K individuals every month.
Team outings & referral bonuses
You've designed and shipped production-grade features customers love across complex systems, workflows, and platforms.
You've worked directly with customers and end users, and know how to connect what you learn to business goals and technical constraints. Your work reflects that fluency.
We work hand-in-hand with enterprise customers, from Fortune 500s to frontier AI labs, to understand their problems deeply and build solutions that are delightful to use.
We're looking for a Founding Product Designer to own the design function from the ground up.

This listing is sourced directly from Handshake's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.