Senior Product Designer II, Handshake AI
Company: Handshake
Location: San Francisco, CA
Salary: $170,000 - $215,000 a year
Type: Full-time
Posted: 2026-04-22
About this role
# About Handshake
Handshake is the career network for the AI economy. 20 million knowledge workers, 1,600 educational institutions, 1 million employers (including 100% of the Fortune 50), and every foundational AI lab trust Handshake to power career discovery, hiring, and upskilling, from freelance AI training gigs to first internships to full-time careers and beyond. This unique value is leading to unparalleled growth; in 2025, we tripled our ARR at scale.
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
- Work hand-in-hand with world-class AI labs, Fortune 500 partners and the world’s top educational institutions
- Join a team with leadership from Scale AI, Meta, xAI, Notion, Coinbase, and Palantir, among others
- Build a massive, fast-growing business with billions in revenue
Your role
Handshake AI powers expert-labeled data collection at scale, matching domain experts with leading AI companies to train frontier models. We're hiring a Senior Product Designer II to lead significant, high-impact design initiatives — someone who can navigate ambiguity with confidence, bring rigor and data-informed thinking to complex problems, and raise the bar for the design org around them.
In this role, you'll own meaningful chunks of our product strategy, driving design end-to-end across complicated, often loosely-defined projects. You'll be a go-to resource for your teammates, proactively mentoring and improving quality beyond your own work — while staying close to customers, operators, and the full business to keep your decisions well-grounded.
- Lead end-to-end design on significant, high-impact projects, from discovery through production and iteration, often with minimal definition and little precedent to work from.
- Bring a data-informed mindset to every aspect of your work — articulating when data is incomplete or biased, keeping the user at the center of...