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Staff Product Designer, Growth

Handshake· Design
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Hybrid (San Francisco, CA)$225k - $250kFull-timePosted 2mo ago

About the role

Staff Product Designer on the Network team focused on growth experiences across acquisition, onboarding, activation, referrals, and network growth to drive user discovery and engagement for Handshake’s platform.

Responsibilities

  • Partner closely with product, engineering, marketing, data science, and content teams to define problems, shape product strategy, and deliver exceptional consumer experiences.
  • Own design end-to-end, from early concept through post-launch iteration: user flows, interaction prototypes, high-fidelity mocks, and collaboration through implementation.
  • Design experiences across acquisition, onboarding, activation, referrals, and network growth that help users quickly discover value and build lasting engagement.
  • Tackle complex, ambiguous consumer design problems by translating behavioral insights and user needs into simple, intuitive experiences.
  • Rapidly iterate through wireframes, prototypes, and experiments to validate ideas and optimize conversion, engagement, and retention.
  • Partner with cross-functional teams to design and refine growth experiments across landing pages, onboarding flows, referral programs, viral mechanics, and conversion touchpoints.
  • Obsess over craft, bringing a strong point of view on visual design, interaction design, and systems thinking while maintaining a relentless focus on user outcomes.

Qualifications

  • 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.

Skills

Required:Product design for growthVisual and interaction designCross-functional collaboration
Nice to have:Growth experimentationAI-assisted design

Benefits

  • 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
Last updated Sep 24, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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