Staff Product Designer, Handshake AI

Handshake
San Francisco, CA
Hybrid

Who this role is best for

Aimed at experienced product designers who thrive in cross-functional, high-impact environments and are motivated by AI-driven career development.

Best fit for

  • Candidates with a background in complex interactive product design and a desire to shape AI-driven career evolution at scale
    — “Shape how every career evolves in the AI economy, at global scale, with impact your friends, family and peers can see and feel”
  • Individuals who have led end-to-end design processes and delivered measurable outcomes in fast-growing tech environments
    — “Own design end-to-end—from concept through production—iterating quickly through research, user journeys, wireframes, prototypes, and high-fidelity designs”
  • Design professionals with a strong interest in working with world-class AI labs and Fortune 500 partners
    — “Partner hand-in-hand with world-class AI labs, Fortune 500 partners and the world’s top educational institutions”

Things to consider

  • The role demands a high level of collaboration across multiple teams and stakeholders
    — “Collaborate closely with Quality, Coding, RLE, and Fellow Experience teams—your work enables theirs”
  • Candidates should be prepared to take full ownership of design initiatives and work on ambiguous problems
    — “Tackle complex, ambiguous human-centered problems and translate them into clear, simple solutions”

How to stand out

  • Highlight experience in designing scalable systems with multiple stakeholders and measurable impact
    — “Experience designing scalable systems, workflows, or platforms with many moving parts and stakeholders”
  • Demonstrate your strategic thinking by aligning product visions with business goals in your application materials
    — “Develop strategic product visions and collaborate with partners to sequence them into pragmatic phases”
Pace · Fast PacedCollaboration · HighAutonomy · HighDecision Impact · Team

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What success looks like

  • Developed and executed strategic product visions
  • Collaborated with cross-functional teams to deliver high-impact products
  • Improved user experience through iterative design
Typical background
7+ years of product design experienceExperience in complex, interactive product design

Skills & requirements

Required

Product DesignUser Experience DesignInteraction DesignVisual DesignProduct VisionCollaborationCommunicationProblem-solvingOwnership

Preferred

AI IntegrationPlatform DesignData Analysis

Stack & domain

Communication

About the role

Original posting from Handshake via Ashby

ABOUT HANDSHAKE

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.

Why join Handshake now:

  • Shape how every career evolves in the AI economy, at global scale, with impact your friends, family and peers can see and feel
  • Partner hand-in-hand with world-class AI labs, Fortune 500 partners and the world’s top educational institutions
  • Work together with engineers, scientists, operators, and more from Palantir, Meta, Scale AI, and former YC founders
  • Build a massive, fast-growing business with billions in revenue

About Handshake AI

Human data is the core infrastructure to AI advancement. Frontier AI labs currently improve model capabilities with various data-intensive post-training techniques. We believe that data spend for AI training will increase by 3-5x in the next few years and continue for much longer as models take on new domains. Handshake AI supports all of the frontier AI labs, working on their most complex data at the largest scale.

Your role

  • Partner with product, engineering, data, research, and operations to build and extend the tasking experience—the central platform to shape frontier AI models.
  • Develop strategic product visions and collaborate with partners to sequence them into pragmatic phases.
  • Collaborate closely with Quality, Coding, RLE, and Fellow Experience teams—your work enables theirs.
  • 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—iterating quickly through research, user journeys, wireframes, prototypes, and high-fidelity designs with a strong point of view on craft.
  • Raise the bar for design culture and execution through systems thinking, product reasoning, pixel-level precision, facilitation, and mentoring.

Your experience

  • 7+ years of product design experience, ideally working on highly complex, interactive products.
  • Strong communicator who clearly articulates design decisions, tradeoffs, and the thinking behind them to partners and leadership.
  • Deep visual and interaction design expertise, with a proven track record of shipped work and measurable impact.
  • Experience designing scalable systems, workflows, or platforms with many moving parts and stakeholders.
  • Highly collaborative, valuing diverse perspectives and incorporating them into the design process to achieve better outcomes.
  • Design-led thinker who raises the bar by embedding design thinking into day-to-day work and helping others grow.
  • Impact-driven, with the ability to prioritize ruthlessly and focus on the work that matters most.
  • Hands-on, willing to roll up your sleeves and take ownership—nothing is “someone else’s problem”.
  • Deeply motivated by Handshake’s mission. Humble, kind, and curious, with a desire to keep learning and help others grow.
  • Bonus if you have experience in model training, conversational AI, or task management systems at a high-growth company.

We Offer

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

💻 Remote & Office: Internet, commuting, and free lunch/gym in our SF office

🏝 Time Off: Flexible PTO, 15 holidays + 2 flex days

🤝 Connection: Team outings & referral bonuses

Explore our mission, values, and comprehensive US benefits at joinhandshake.com/careers http://joinhandshake.com/careers. http://joinhandshake.com/careers.Your

Source: Handshake careers (Ashby)

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