Senior Product Designer

Join Handshake, a platform dedicated to helping students find meaningful careers. As a Senior Product Designer II, you'll design the core job search and application experience for millions of students. You'll collaborate with various teams to improve job discovery, application completion, and the post-application experience. Your work will have a significant impact on students' job search journeys.

Deeply motivated by Handshake's mission and committed to helping students build meaningful careers in the AI economy

About Handshake

• Solid visual and interaction design skills, with a track record of shipping high-quality experiences
• Impact-driven, able to prioritize and focus on what matters most for students trying to land a job
• Highly collaborative, with the ability to work effectively across product, engineering, data science, and content
• Curious and always learning, with a growth mindset

Responsibilities

• Concevoir l'expérience utilisateur pour la recherche d'emploi, la candidature et le suivi.
• Collaborer avec les équipes produit, ingénierie, science des données et contenu pour définir les problèmes et proposer des solutions.
• Utiliser des recherches utilisateur, des données comportementales et des retours qualitatifs pour prendre des décisions de conception.
• Comfortable using qualitative and quantitative insights (user research, funnel data, experiment results) to inform and validate design decisions

Requirements

• Experience designing complex, multi-step flows (e.g., search, application, checkout, onboarding) where completion and drop-off really matter
• Gritty and hands-on—willing to dig into ambiguous problems and take ownership of your surface area
• Strong communicator who can clearly explain design decisions, tradeoffs, and the thinking behind them to product and engineering partners
• 5+ years of product design experience, ideally building consumer-facing products at scale
• Comfortable incorporating generative AI tools into the design process to accelerate ideation, prototyping, and iteration
• Detail-oriented and craft-driven, with a bias toward getting the small things right

Preferred

• Experience with application/funnel flows where conversion and completion rate are key metrics
• Experience designing search, discovery, or marketplace matching experiences
• Familiarity with career services, recruiting, or early-career talent pipelines
• Experience designing "home" or landing surfaces that personalize content for different user segments

Pay

USD 170,000 - 215,000