Staff Product Designer, Handshake AI
About the role
Handshake was founded on a simple belief that everyone deserves a path to a great career, regardless of where they went to school or who they know. Today, we power 25 million job seekers, 1 million+ employers, and 1,600 educational institutions. In 2025, we started Handshake AI and built the fastest‑growing AI data business in history. We work directly with frontier AI lab researchers to create evaluations, publish benchmarks, and push the boundary of data. We’ve grown from $0 to ~$1B run rate and pay ~$60M to over 30K individuals every month.
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. Partner hand‑in‑hand with world‑class AI labs, Fortune 500 partners and the world’s top educational institutions. Work together with engineers, scientists, operators, and more from Palantir, Meta, Scale AI, and former YC founders. Build a massive, fast‑growing business with billions in revenue.
About Handshake AI: Human data is the core infrastructure to AI advancement. Frontier AI labs currently improve model capabilities with various data‑intensive post‑training techniques. We believe that data spend for AI training will increase by 3‑5× in the next few years and continue for much longer as models take on new domains. Handshake AI supports all of the frontier AI labs, working on their most complex data at the largest scale.
Responsibilities
- 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.