Director of Product Management, Handshake
Consumer Growth
$250-270k
+Equity
More information about location
3 days a week in office
College career network and job board
Open for applications
College career network and job board
501-1000 employees
Open for applications
$250-270k
+Equity
More information about location
3 days a week in office
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To democratize access to opportunity and ensure any student can build a great career no matter who they know, where they live or what school they attend.
Role
Who you are
- 3+ years experience building and leading consumer growth teams that drove demonstrable, business-inflecting growth while partnering with others in product, eng and marketing
- 7+ years PM experience partnering with engineering teams to ship code. Ideally in a many-stakeholder environment with dependencies and collaboration
- Strong systems and analytical thinker. Can connect the dots, spot challenges and edge cases, integrate multiple considerations
- Working knowledge of data-driven applications including mapping, schemas, permissions that inform user interactions and downstream analytics
- User focused. You dive headfirst into understanding the needs of employers and build products grounded in data and research
- Data obsessed. You marry your user focus with a commitment to rigorous data analysis. You live in the data enough to develop intuition about opportunity sizing and identify new trends or opportunities vs one-off blips
- You are obsessed with driving growth. You consistently drive demonstrable impact for your companies, improving the experience for users and inflecting the business
- You set the pace and the tone for your teams, knowing that growth impact is driven in part by maximizing shots on goal, balancing speed and perfection
- You have high expectations for yourself and your teams and inspire others to meet your high bar
- And you care. A lot. You care about your work, your team, the people using your product and about the mission of Handshake to help everyone find a great job and build a great career. And it shows in everything you do
What the job involves
- Handshake is hiring a Director, Product Management, Consumer Growth, reporting to the President and Chief Product Officer
- This person will drive the strategy and execution of our consumer growth strategy, helping Handshake continue in its evolution from the top college job board to the career network for Gen Z, as reflected in a majority share of the early talent audience using Handshake daily / weekly / monthly along their career journey
- This role has a unique opportunity to work alongside the CEO, President and other top leaders of the company to drive an increase in the top company KPI, consumer engagement, and to make Handshake ubiquitous with Gen Z and the people who want to recruit them
- Handshake has been evolving the foundations of our marketplace to make it possible for anyone to use Handshake and share content (their profile, a helpful video, a new job) to friends and family outside of Handshake, and to build out the foundations of a social content & community experience that meets more user needs around career discovery and exploration, in addition to the active job search
- All of these investments are now live or about to launch, providing all ingredients for a high-powered growth team to build the activation and engagement loops that can make Handshake ubiquitous with Gen Z - students, alumni, young employees or all the above - by solving real problems along their career journey
- To achieve this vision, you’ll be leading a team of PMs, engineers, designers and marketers and collaborating closely with our partnerships teams to build a truly game-changing consumer product and dramatically inflect our consumer engagement and the Handshake market opportunity
- Product strategy. Develop the product vision, strategy, and roadmap for growth product areas including registration, activation, onboarding, and retention loops
- Product development: You’ll lead a high performing cross-functional squad, collaborating closely with your engineering and design partners, from research and roadmap planning to delivery
- Goals, metrics and tracking: Define goals and own performance against key business metrics for growth, and proactively drive accountability towards those goals
- Leadership and alignment. You’ll represent your squad and product area to executives, and translate company-wide strategies to your squad and into your roadmap. You’ll inspire your team on the product vision
- Launch and adoption: You’ll partner closely with marketing and our sales teams to bring our products to life. You never hesitate to roll up your sleeves and tackle something hands-on
- It’s never someone else’s problem. You’ll run beta programs and pilots to maximize learning and minimize code investment, getting close to the customer and the details through the process
- Cross-functional partnership: You’ll work with stakeholders across consumer and B2B teams, and on other sides of the Handshake marketplace EDU Partners to innovate quickly but deliberately
Our take
The three founders of Handshake established their company in an attempt to eliminate inequality and make the student hiring landscape fairer. The Handshake platform acts as a LinkedIn for college students, pairing students from every walk of life with more than 650K employers, including the entire Fortune 500, which includes Google and Nike.
The graduate recruitment platform is open to any student with a valid @.edu email address, with more than 12 million active users from thousands of colleges and universities. With a student-first philosophy, the company generates revenue from both universities and employers rather than students.
Valued at $3.5B, Handshake has gained traction in a competitive market, although it has strong competition from recruiting giants LinkedIn and Indeed. It stands out, however, by helping students build new relationships and skills, rather than simply making connections to people they already know.
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Jan 2022
$200m
SERIES F
May 2021
$80m
SERIES E
Total funding: $434m
Company benefits
- đź’°Equity and ownership in a fast-growing company
- 🍼16 Weeks of paid parental leave for birth giving parents & 10 weeks of paid parental leave for non-birth giving parents
- đź’ťComprehensive medical, dental, and vision policies including LGTBQ+ Coverage. We also provide resources for Mental Health Assistance, Employee Assistance Programs and counseling support
- đź’»Handshake offers $500/ÂŁ360 home office stipend for you to spend during your first 3 months to create a productive and comfortable workspace at home
- đź“šGenerous learning & development opportunities and an annual $2,000/ÂŁ1,500 stipend for you to grow your skills and career
- 🏦401k Match: Handshake offers a dollar-for-dollar match on 1% of deferred salary, up to a maximum of $1,200 per year
- 🏝 All full-time US-based Handshakers are eligible for our flexible time off policy to get out and see the world. In addition, we offer 8 standardized holidays, and 2 additional days of flexible holiday time off. Lastly, we have a Summer and Winter #ShakeBreak, two one-week periods of Collective Time Off
Company HQ
Financial District, San Francisco, CA
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Leadership
Garrett Lord
(Co-Founder & CEO)Majored in Computer Science at Michigan Technological University. Interned at Palantir Technologies before co-founding Handshake in 2012.
Ben Christensen
(Co-Founder)Graduated from Michigan Technological University with a degree in Computer Networking & Systems Administration. Interned at Target and worked as a Developer at Up and Running Software. Was part of Arbor Networks' ASERT Security Research team.
Scott Ringwelski
(Co-Founder)Attained a degree in Computer Software Engineering from Michigan Technological University. Co-founded Handshake in 2012.
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