Handshake is hiring: Director, Product Design (San Francisco) in San Francisco

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 fulltime 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 worldclass AI labs, Fortune 500 partners and the worlds top educational institutions
• Join a team with leadership from Scale AI, Meta, xAI, Notion, Coinbase, and Palantir, among others
• Build a massive, fastgrowing business with billions in revenue

The Role

• Collaborate closely with your crossfunctional partners: research, product, engineering, analytics, and marketing to ship and iterate on strategic, greattouse products that make real impact for both our customers and business
• Set your team up to succeed: hire and grow the team; raise the bar on culture, operations, and execution of design work, including product reasoning, systems thinking, pixel level precision, mobile prototyping, ability to facilitate conversations with and present to stakeholders, stellar teamwork and mentoring
• Strengthen the overall product organization's ability to experiment, iterate, and learn alongside your product organization lead teammates; develop wellinformed strategic visions of where we're headed, break up those visions into pragmatic phases to scaffold our way forward
• Influence and evolve creative direction and information architecture alongside your design leader teammates and the VP of Design to weave a seamless, symbiotic experience across the disparate areas of our threesided marketplace
• Foster and operationalize a productive, inclusive design team culture alongside your design leads teammates, ensuring everyone is supported and set up to do their best work and their best teamwork

You Have

• Youve designed and shipped products, especially for mobile platforms, that customers love, and can systematically, clearly articulate what it took to make that happen, from highlevel strategy down to pixellevel decisionmaking
• You have plenty of experience navigating complex systems, ambiguity, experimentation; you're pragmatic, flexible, and creative in seeking out solutions and paths forward
• You relish using your design skills to bring clarity and simplicity to both process and product, and can demonstrate that you've done so effectively in the past
• Youve got a track record of building up and developing happy, highperforming teams; you take pride and joy in setting up designers from a wide variety of backgrounds for topnotch performance, impeccable vibes and constant learning; you seek innovative ways to flow around any barriers
• You're humble and kind despite your track record, excited to keep learning, curious about the workings of a threesided marketplace and everevolving team / product surface area
• Extra bonus if you're experienced with leading one or more of: multisided marketplaces, growth, b2b

Bonus Points

• Extra bonus if you're experienced with leading one or more of: multisided marketplaces, growth, b2b

Handshake delivers benefits that help you feel supported and thrive at work and in life.

🎯 Ownership: Equity in a fastgrowing 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

💻 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.

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