Staff Product Designer, Handshake AI

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

Your role

• 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.

Your experience

• 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.

• Deep visual and interaction design expertise, with a proven track record of shipped work and measurable impact.

• 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.

• Design-led thinker who raises the bar by embedding design thinking into day-to-day work and helping others grow.

• Impact-driven, with the ability to prioritize ruthlessly and focus on the work that matters most.

• Hands-on, willing to roll up your sleeves and take ownership—nothing is “someone else’s problem”.

• Deeply motivated by Handshake’s mission. Humble, kind, and curious, with a desire to keep learning and help others grow.

• Bonus if you have experience in model training, conversational AI, or task management systems at a high-growth company.

We Offer

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

🎯 Ownership: Equity in a fast-growing company

💰 Financial Wellness: 401(k) match, competitive compensation, financial coaching

💝 Wellbeing: Medical, dental, and vision, mental health support, $500 wellness stipend

📚 Growth: $2,000 learning stipend, ongoing development

🤝 Connection: Team outings & referral bonuses