Senior Product Designer II
San Francisco, CA$170k - $215kFull-timePosted 1mo ago
About the role
Senior Product Designer II on the Jobs team at Handshake, responsible for designing end-to-end job search, discovery, application, and post-application experiences, with involvement in the Home surface and cross-functional collaboration to improve match quality and student confidence.
Responsibilities
- Own design across the end-to-end jobs experience: search and discovery, job details, application flow, and post-application status and follow-up.
- Partner with product, engineering, data science, and content teams to define problems, propose solutions, and ship polished, high-quality experiences.
- Contribute to the Home experience, helping ensure what students see first sets them up to succeed in their job search.
- Translate user research, behavioral data, and qualitative feedback into design decisions that improve match quality, application completion, and student confidence throughout the process.
- Rapidly iterate through wireframes, prototypes, and experiments to test and validate design directions.
- Collaborate with a Staff Designer and design leadership to ensure your work ladders up to the broader Jobs and Network strategy.
- Bring strong craft to every surface you touch—visual design, interaction design, and attention to the small details that make an experience feel trustworthy and easy to use.
Qualifications
- 5+ years of product design experience, ideally building consumer-facing products at scale.
- Experience designing complex, multi-step flows (e.g., search, application, checkout, onboarding) where completion and drop-off really matter.
- Strong communicator who can clearly explain design decisions, tradeoffs, and the thinking behind them to product and engineering partners.
- Solid visual and interaction design skills, with a track record of shipping high-quality experiences.
- Comfortable using qualitative and quantitative insights (user research, funnel data, experiment results) to inform and validate design decisions.
- Comfortable incorporating generative AI tools into the design process to accelerate ideation, prototyping, and iteration.
- Highly collaborative, with the ability to work effectively across product, engineering, data science, and content.
- Detail-oriented and craft-driven, with a bias toward getting the small things right.
- Impact-driven, able to prioritize and focus on what matters most for students trying to land a job.
- Gritty and hands-on—willing to dig into ambiguous problems and take ownership of your surface area.
- Deeply motivated by Handshake's mission and committed to helping students build meaningful careers in the AI economy.
- Curious and always learning, with a growth mindset.
Skills
Required:Product DesignUX ResearchCommunicationCollaborationUI/Visual 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 9, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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