Staff Product Designer for AI-Driven Talent Platform

Handshake; United States; On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health Insurance

401k match

Equity

Parental leave

Sabbatical

Volunteer time off

Professional development stipend

Job summary

Handshake is building a new AI-native product from the ground up to reimagine how recruiters and hiring managers source, engage, and manage talent. As Staff Product Designer, you’ll own the end-to-end design across user flows, prototypes, and high-fidelity mocks, shaping a consumer-grade yet craft-forward experience for a complex B2B workflow.

You’ll collaborate with product, engineering, and data teams, define problems, set goals, and guide strategy for a high-visibility product area, bringing

Qualifications

• 7+ years of product design experience, ideally for enterprise or B2B workflows.
• Experience designing for AI-native products with chat, composer, and agent interactions.
• Strong visual and interaction design craft with shipped work and measurable impact.
• Excellent cross-functional collaboration and clear communication with leadership.
• Ability to handle ambiguity and lead design from concept through post-launch iterations.

Responsibilities

• Own design end-to-end, from early concept through post-launch iteration: user flows, interaction prototypes, high-fidelity mocks, and collaboration through build.
• Design core interaction patterns for working with AI and agents—particularly around chat, composer, and the movement between conversational and structured parts of the product.
• Partner closely with product, engineering, and data teams to define problems, set goals, and shape product strategy for a new, high-visibility product area.
• Rapidly iterate through wireframes and prototypes to gather feedback early and often.
• Obsess over craft, with a strong point of view on visual and interaction design.
• Collaborate closely with designers working on adjacent parts of the broader employer experience to ensure a coherent, unified product.

Skills

Product design

AI-driven design

Collaboration

Visual design

Prototyping

User research

Ownership

Communication

Design systems

Job description

Handshake is building a new AI-native product from the ground up to reimagine how recruiters and hiring managers source, engage, and manage talent. As Staff Product Designer, you’ll own the end-to-end design across user flows, prototypes, and high-fidelity mocks, shaping a consumer-grade yet craft-forward experience for a complex B2B workflow.

You’ll collaborate with product, engineering, and data teams, define problems, set goals, and guide strategy for a high-visibility product area, bringing