Senior Product Designer — AI Platform & Data

Handshake; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 225,000 - 250,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

401(k) match

Parental leave

Wellness stipend

Learning stipend

Free lunch/gym in SF office

Job summary

Handshake is seeking a senior product designer to own end-to-end design for the tasking experience that shapes frontier AI models. You will partner with product, engineering, data, research, and operations to build and extend the central platform.

You will lead design from concept through production, mentor others, and raise the bar on craft and systems thinking while delivering measurable impact at scale.

Qualifications

• 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.

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.

Skills

Product design

Strong communicator

Visual design

Interaction design

Systems design

Collaboration

Design thinking

Prioritization

Ownership mindset

AI/ML experience

Job description

Handshake is seeking a senior product designer to own end-to-end design for the tasking experience that shapes frontier AI models. You will partner with product, engineering, data, research, and operations to build and extend the central platform.

You will lead design from concept through production, mentor others, and raise the bar on craft and systems thinking while delivering measurable impact at scale.