Staff Product Designer, Handshake
Mobile Design Systems
The career platform for Gen Z
Job no longer available
The career platform for Gen Z
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
1001+ 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
- You’ve created and/or maintained a mobile design system
- You've designed and shipped products, including mobile and desktop, that customers love, and can systematically, clearly articulate what it took to make that happen, from high-level strategy down to pixel-level decision-making
- You know how to roll data, research, business goals, technical constraints, and customer needs together into strongly-crafted solutions (mocks, prototypes, flows); you iterate fast, ensure you gather feedback, use strategic reasoning to inform your decisions
- You relish using your design skills to bring clarity and simplicity to both process and product
- You're humble and kind despite your track record, excited to keep learning, curious about the workings of a three-sided marketplace and ever-evolving team / product surface area
- Extra bonus if you're experienced with one or more of: multi-sided marketplaces, growth, design systems, B2B
What the job involves
- Come help make our design team world-class to tackle this very tangible, incentives-aligned, real-world problem
- As a Staff Product Designer focused on Mobile Design Systems, you'll play a pivotal role in shaping our transition to a mobile-first approach
- This position is centered on constructing and refining a robust mobile component system that will serve as the backbone for our product development
- You will have the opportunity to influence our strategy and create the tools that empower our broader team to develop faster and more efficiently for the devices our customers use most
- Define, craft, and iterate the company's Mobile Design System, ensuring it meets usability and performance standards
- Explore, share, and implement the newest mobile platform capabilities, staying in-the-know about iOS and Android’s evolution
- Collaborate closely with your partners, both cross-functionally and within design: research, PM, engineering, analytics, design, brand, marketing – to ship and iterate on strategic, well-thought-out, surprisingly great-to-use products that make real impact for both our customers and business
- Track and analyze user behavior to find areas of friction and opportunities for design improvements within the component and how users interact with it
- Help your team succeed: raise the bar on culture, operations, and execution of design work, including product reasoning, systems thinking, pixel level precision, mobile prototyping, ability to facilitate conversations with and present to stakeholders, stellar teamwork and mentoring
- Strengthen the overall product organization's ability to experiment, iterate, and learn alongside your product organization lead teammates; develop well-informed strategic visions of where we're headed, collaborate to break them into pragmatic phases to scaffold our way forward
- Inform creative direction and information architecture alongside your design leader teammates and the VP of Design to weave a seamless, symbiotic experience across the disparate areas of our three-sided marketplace
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 17M 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.
Steph
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Insights
2% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Jan 2022
$200m
SERIES F
May 2021
$80m
SERIES E
Total funding: $434m
Company benefits
- Health Insurance: Comprehensive medical , dental, and vision coverage
- Fertility and family forming: Through a partnership, Handshake offers comprehensive family benefits, including infertility treatments and a $15K stipend, to its employees.
- LGTBQ+ coverage: All medical plans cover transgender services.
- Mental health: Discounts on a variety of wellness apps and an Employee Assistance Program with access to five free counseling sessions.
- Tax savings: Tax-advantaged benefits to save money on healthcare, dependent care, and other expenses.
- Learning & development: Employees are provided with an annual stipend to use towards professional development, career development workshops, manager trainings, and 1-on-1 coaching through external partnerships
- Community leader support: Employee Resource Group leaders are compensated with a quarterly bonus for the high-impact work the role requires
- Parental leave: Leaves of 16 weeks for birth-giving parents and 10 weeks for non-birth-giving parents; the policy applies to adoptions as well. Handshake also partners to provide one-on-one coaching on preparing for leave and coming back from leave
- Flexible time off: No accrued time off or waiting period to take vacation. Two paid flexible holiday days off to observe holidays that closely align with religious, cultural, and personal needs
- Sabbatical: Paid six-week sabbatical to recharge and reset beginning at six years of continuous, full-time employment, and every four years thereafter
- Volunteer time off: Two days off for social and civil activism, volunteer work, and/or any related activities, including attending and participating in protests
- Life & disability insurance: Essential benefits and automatic coverage with basic life insurance, plus short-term and long-term disability coverage.
- 401k match: Dollar-for-dollar match up to 1% of pay, with a max of $1,200 per year.
Company HQ
Financial District, San Francisco, CA
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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