Staff Product Designer: AI-Powered Student Experience

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San Francisco, Northern (CA, KY)

Hybrid

USD 140,000 - 190,000

Full time

14 days+

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Benefits offered by this job

Equity

401(k) match

Parental leave

Wellbeing support

Learning stipend

Job summary

Handshake is seeking a Staff Product Designer for the Student Experience team. You will shape how millions of students discover jobs, build careers, and navigate one of life’s major transitions, with features powered by AI agents acting on behalf of students.

You’ll own end-to-end design across discovery, matching, resume building, interview prep, and career planning. Collaborate across product, engineering, applied AI/ research, data science, and career services to deliver trusted, high-quality

Qualifications

7+ years of product design experience for consumer-facing products
Experience designing AI-powered or agentic products is a strong plus
Excellent communicator able to present choices and trade-offs to leadership
Demonstrated craft in visual and interaction design and shipping impactful experiences

Responsibilities

Define problems with cross-functional teams and shape product strategy for student experiences
Own end-to-end design from concept to post-launch iteration
Design across the student journey: discovery, matching, resume, interview prep, career planning
Tackle novel agentic UX problems including how to represent agent reasoning and trust
Iterate through wireframes and prototypes to optimize real career outcomes
Collaborate with product, engineering, AI/research, data science, and career services