Staff Product Designer — AI Platform (Remote, Equity)

Handshake; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 225,000 - 250,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Ownership

Financial Wellness

Family Support

Wellbeing

Growth

Remote & Office

Time Off

Connection

Job summary

Handshake is seeking an experienced Product Designer to lead end-to-end design for a central platform shaping frontier AI models. You will partner with product, engineering, data, and operations to craft scalable, user-centered solutions across complex workflows.

You will own end-to-end design—from concept through production—mentoring others, raising the bar for craft, and driving measurable impact within a fast-growing AI-focused team.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of product design experience, ideally on highly complex, interactive products.
• Strong communicator who clearly articulates design decisions and tradeoffs to partners and leadership.
• Deep visual and interaction design expertise with a track record of shipped work and measurable impact.
• Experience designing scalable systems, workflows, or platforms with many moving parts and stakeholders.
• Highly collaborative, values diverse perspectives and incorporates them into the design process.

Responsibilities

• Partner with product, engineering, data, research, and operations to build the central tasking experience for frontier AI models.
• Develop strategic product visions and sequence them into pragmatic phases.
• Collaborate with Quality, Coding, RLE, and Fellow Experience teams to enable their work.
• Work with operations leaders; run pilots, shadow users, and translate insights into investments.
• Tackle ambiguous human-centered problems and translate into clear, simple solutions.
• Own design end-to-end—from concept to production—iterating via research, user journeys, wireframes, prototypes, and high-fidelity designs.
• Raise the bar for design culture and execution through systems thinking and pixel-level craft.

Skills

Product design

User experience

Visual design

Interaction design

Design systems

Cross-functional collaboration

Communication

Mentoring

Job description

Handshake is seeking an experienced Product Designer to lead end-to-end design for a central platform shaping frontier AI models. You will partner with product, engineering, data, and operations to craft scalable, user-centered solutions across complex workflows.

You will own end-to-end design—from concept through production—mentoring others, raising the bar for craft, and driving measurable impact within a fast-growing AI-focused team.