Handshake - Staff Product Designer

• 7+ years of product design experience, ideally building consumer-facing products at scale. • Experience designing products with millions of active users, ideally in social, marketplace, network-driven, or consumer growth environments. • Strong communicator who clearly articulates design decisions, tradeoffs, user insights, and the thinking behind them to partners and leadership. • Deep visual and interaction design expertise, with a proven track record of shipping high-quality consumer experiences that drive measurable impact. • Experience designing for growth, including acquisition, onboarding, activation, engagement, referrals, or other user lifecycle experiences. • Comfortable incorporating generative AI tools into the design process to accelerate ideation, prototyping, and iteration, while maintaining a high bar for product thinking, craft, and user experience. • Comfortable using qualitative and quantitative insights to inform design decisions, evaluate experiments, and iterate quickly. • Highly collaborative. You value diverse perspectives and partner effectively across engineering, product, data science, marketing, and brand. • Design-led thinker who raises the bar by embedding design thinking into product development and helping others grow. • Impact-driven. You prioritize ruthlessly and focus on the work that matters most. • Gritty and hands-on. You're willing to roll up your sleeves and take ownership—nothing is "someone else's problem." • Deeply motivated by Handshake's mission and committed to helping people build meaningful careers in the AI economy. • Curious and always learning, with a growth mindset. • Experience designing growth experiences, including onboarding, referrals, social sharing, viral loops, SEO/content surfaces, or registration optimization. • Familiarity with product-led growth, network effects, marketplaces, or multi-sided platforms. • Passion for early-career professionals, the future of work, or the intersection of AI and human potential.