Handshake - Founding Product Designer (Contract), Handshake AI Enterprise

Remote - San Francisco, California, United States$312k - $416k3w ago

Remote Senior NA Artificial Intelligence Product Designer Founding Engineer Close

Requirements

• 5–7+ years of product design experience, ideally on enterprise products, operations tooling, or internal platforms. • 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. • Can walk a customer or executive through a design decision as confidently as you can walk an engineer through a spec. • Highly collaborative and a strong communicator; you value diverse perspectives, manage stakeholders well, and understand the nuance of upward and cross-functional communication. • 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. Humble, kind, and curious, with a desire to keep learning and help others grow. • Bonus: experience with multi-sided marketplaces, LLM products in production, operator/workflow management systems, or internal tools at high-growth companies.

Responsibilities

• Handshake AI Enterprise is building the product layer for AI applications deployed directly into the workflows of the world's leading companies. This role begins as a contract engagement with the opportunity to convert to full-time based on mutual fit. 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. 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. • Collaborate with product, engineering, data, research, sales, and operations to define and build the vision, owning design from early research through high-fidelity, and partnering on demos and prototyping. • 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. • Develop strategic product visions, sequence them into pragmatic phases, and tackle complex, ambiguous problems with a strong point of view on craft. • Operate entrepreneurially: move fast, make decisions with incomplete info, and find creative ways to unblock yourself and your team. • Raise the bar for design culture and execution through systems thinking, product reasoning, pixel-level precision, and facilitation.

Benefits

• 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 • 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.