Staff Product Designer — AI-Driven Student Experience

AI Chopping Block; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

401(k) match

Parental leave

Fertility benefits

Mental health support

Wellness stipend

Learning stipend

SF office access

Flexible PTO

Holidays & flex days

Team outings

Referral bonuses

Job summary

Handshake seeks a Staff Product Designer for the Student Experience team to shape how millions of students discover jobs, build careers, and navigate transitions. You’ll own end-to-end experiences—from job discovery to career planning—with growing agentic AI features guiding student actions.

You will collaborate with product, engineering, AI/research, data science, and career services experts to deliver trusted, high-impact student experiences at scale.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of product design experience, ideally in consumer-facing products at scale.
• Own end-to-end product experiences, not just individual features.
• Experience designing AI-powered or agentic products.
• Strong communicator who articulates decisions and tradeoffs.
• Deep visual and interaction design expertise with measurable impact.
• Design for trust, transparency, and user control.
• Comfort with integrating generative AI tools into the design process.
• Use qualitative and quantitative insights to inform decisions.
• Highly collaborative across disciplines and teams.
• Design-led thinker focused on student outcomes and growth mindset.
• Gritty, hands-on, and mission-aligned with Handshake.

Responsibilities

• Partner with product, engineering, AI, data science, and content teams to define problems and shape strategy.
• Own design end-to-end from concept to post-launch iteration, including flows, prototypes, and mocks.
• Design across the full student journey: discovery, matching, application support, interview prep, and career planning.
• Explore agentic UX, including trusted agent reasoning, control, and human-AI handoffs.
• Iterate rapidly via wireframes, prototypes, and experiments to validate models and outcomes.
• Collaborate to introduce and refine AI capabilities, ensuring clear explanations and trust.
• Maintain high craft in visual and interaction design with a focus on student wellbeing.

Skills

Product design

AI-powered design

Systems thinking

Communication

Visual design

Interaction design

Trust & transparency

Cross-functional collaboration

Growth mindset

Hands-on ownership

Design thinking

Tools

Generative AI tools

Job description

Handshake seeks a Staff Product Designer for the Student Experience team to shape how millions of students discover jobs, build careers, and navigate transitions. You’ll own end-to-end experiences—from job discovery to career planning—with growing agentic AI features guiding student actions.

You will collaborate with product, engineering, AI/research, data science, and career services experts to deliver trusted, high-impact student experiences at scale.