Staff Product Designer (Handshake AI)

• Partner with product, engineering, data, research, and operations to build and extend the tasking experience—the central platform to shape frontier AI models
• Develop strategic product visions and collaborate with partners to sequence them into pragmatic phases
• Collaborate closely with Quality, Coding, RLE, and Fellow Experience teams—your work enables theirs
• Partner with operations leaders and stay close to operators’ workflows. Run pilots, shadow users, uncover pain points, and translate insights into prioritized investments
• Tackle complex, ambiguous human-centered problems and translate them into clear, simple solutions
• Own design end-to-end—from concept through production—iterating quickly through research, user journeys, wireframes, prototypes, and high-fidelity designs with a strong point of view on craft
• Raise the bar for design culture and execution through systems thinking, product reasoning, pixel-level precision, facilitation, and mentoring

Benefits

• Health Insurance: Comprehensive medical , dental, and vision coverage
• Fertility and family forming: Through a partnership, Handshake offers comprehensive family benefits, including infertility treatments and a $15K stipend, to its employees.
• LGTBQ+ coverage: All medical plans cover transgender services.
• Mental health: Discounts on a variety of wellness apps and an Employee Assistance Program with access to five free counseling sessions.
• Tax savings: Tax-advantaged benefits to save money on healthcare, dependent care, and other expenses.
• Life & disability insurance: Essential benefits and automatic coverage with basic life insurance, plus short-term and long-term disability coverage.
• 401k match: Dollar-for-dollar match up to 1% of pay, with a max of $1,200 per year.
• Equity: Our equity program includes grants at hire, refresher grants after two years of tenure, and grants alongside promotions.
• Financial management: Handshake partners to provide free professional financial planning services.
• Learning & development: Employees are provided with an annual stipend to use towards professional development, career development workshops, manager trainings, and 1-on-1 coaching through external partnerships
• Community leader support: Employee Resource Group leaders are compensated with a quarterly bonus for the high-impact work the role requires
• Parental leave: Leaves of 16 weeks for birth-giving parents and 10 weeks for non-birth-giving parents; the policy applies to adoptions as well. Handshake also partners to provide one-on-one coaching on preparing for leave and coming back from leave
• Flexible time off: No accrued time off or waiting period to take vacation. Two paid flexible holiday days off to observe holidays that closely align with religious, cultural, and personal needs
• Sabbatical: Paid six-week sabbatical to recharge and reset beginning at six years of continuous, full-time employment, and every four years thereafter
• Volunteer time off: Two days off for social and civil activism, volunteer work, and/or any related activities, including attending and participating in protests- Design-led thinker who raises the bar by embedding design thinking into day-to-day work and helping others grow
• 7+ years of product design experience, ideally working on highly complex, interactive products
• Strong communicator who clearly articulates design decisions, tradeoffs, and the thinking behind them to partners and leadership
• Experience designing scalable systems, workflows, or platforms with many moving parts and stakeholders
• Highly collaborative, valuing diverse perspectives and incorporating them into the design process to achieve better outcomes
• Deep visual and interaction design expertise, with a proven track record of shipped work and measurable impact
• Hands-on, willing to roll up your sleeves and take ownership—nothing is “someone else’s problem”
• Impact-driven, with the ability to prioritize ruthlessly and focus on the work that matters most
• Bonus if you have experience in model training, conversational AI, or task management systems at a high-growth company
• Deeply motivated by Handshake’s mission. Humble, kind, and curious, with a desire to keep learning and help others grow