Staff Product Designer, Student Experience

Join Handshake, a leading career platform for students. As a Staff Product Designer on the Student Experience team, you'll shape how millions of students discover jobs, build careers, and navigate one of the most consequential transitions in their lives. You'll own the end-to-end experience across job discovery and matching, resume building, interview prep, and long-term career planning. This is a unique opportunity to make a meaningful impact on the lives of students and the future of work.

• Collaborer étroitement avec les équipes produit, ingénierie, IA appliquée, science des données et contenu pour définir les problèmes, façonner la stratégie produit et livrer des expériences étudiantes.
• Posséder l'expérience de conception de bout en bout, des concepts initiaux à l'itération post-lancement, y compris les flux d'utilisateurs, les prototypes et les maquettes haute fidélité.
• Concevoir à travers l'ensemble du parcours étudiant, y compris les expériences où un agent IA prend des mesures significatives pour les étudiants, pas seulement pour fournir des informations.

• Experience designing AI-powered or agentic products — systems that take action, make recommendations, or automate tasks on a user's behalf, not just conversational chat interfaces — is a strong plus
• Strong communicator who clearly articulates design decisions, tradeoffs, user insights, and the thinking behind them to partners and leadership
• Design-led thinker who raises the bar by embedding design thinking into product development and helping others grow
• A track record of owning complex, end-to-end product experiences — not just individual features or flows
• Highly collaborative. You value diverse perspectives and partner effectively across engineering, product, applied AI, data science, and career services experts
• Experience designing for trust, transparency, and control — helping users understand what a system is doing and why, and feel confident acting on its recommendations
• Comfortable using qualitative and quantitative insights to inform design decisions, evaluate experiments, and iterate quickly on emerging patterns
• 7+ years of product design experience, ideally building consumer-facing products at scale
• 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
• Deep visual and interaction design expertise, with a proven track record of shipping high-quality experiences that drive measurable impact
• 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 students build meaningful careers in the AI economy
• Curious and always learning, with a growth mindset — especially about how agentic AI is reshaping product design
• Impact-driven. You prioritize ruthlessly and focus on the work that matters most for student career outcomes
• Experience designing agent-based or copilot products (career coaching, personal assistants, autonomous task agents, etc.)
• Familiarity with career services, higher education, recruiting, or early-career talent pipelines
• Background in designing for high-stakes decisions where trust, explainability, and error recovery matter (finance, health, hiring)
• Passion for early-career professionals, the future of work, or the intersection of AI and human potential