Staff Product Designer, Growth — Remote, Impactful Network Builder

Handshake; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Ownership: Equity in a fast-growing co

401(k) match

Paid parental leave

Fertility benefits

Medical, dental, vision

Mental health support

Learning stipend

Remote & Office: SF office perks

Flexible PTO

Holidays + flex days

Team outings and referral bonuses

Job summary

Handshake is seeking a Staff Product Designer for the Network team to shape onboarding, acquisition, activation, referrals, and growth. You will own end-to-end experiences for millions of users, collaborating with product, engineering, data science, marketing, and brand to deliver intuitive, high-quality experiences that drive engagement and value from the first interaction.

You’ll lead design from concept through post-launch iterations, advocate for design thinking, and apply generative AI

Qualifications

• 7+ years of product design experience, ideally at-scale consumer products.
• Experience designing for millions of active users in growth or social environments.
• Strong communicator able to present design decisions to partners and leadership.
• Deep visual and interaction design expertise with proven impact.
• Experience designing for growth: acquisition, onboarding, activation, engagement or referrals.
• Ability to incorporate generative AI tools to accelerate ideation and iteration.
• Fluent with both qualitative and quantitative insights to inform decisions.
• Highly collaborative and design-led, with a growth mindset.

Responsibilities

• Partner with product, engineering, marketing, data science, and content teams to define problems and shape strategy.
• Own end-to-end design from concept through post-launch iteration: flows, prototypes, mocks, and implementation.
• Design experiences across acquisition, onboarding, activation, referrals, and growth.
• Translate behavioral insights into simple, intuitive experiences.
• Iterate rapidly with wireframes, prototypes, and experiments to improve conversion and retention.
• Collaborate on growth experiments across landing pages and onboarding flows.
• Maintain high craft in visual design, interaction design, and systems thinking.

Skills

Product design

User growth

Communication

Visual design

Interaction design

Growth experiments

Collaboration

Design thinking

AI tooling

Experimentation

Tools

Generative AI tools

Job description

Handshake is seeking a Staff Product Designer for the Network team to shape onboarding, acquisition, activation, referrals, and growth. You will own end-to-end experiences for millions of users, collaborating with product, engineering, data science, marketing, and brand to deliver intuitive, high-quality experiences that drive engagement and value from the first interaction.

You’ll lead design from concept through post-launch iterations, advocate for design thinking, and apply generative AI