Program Manager, Handshake
$108-150k
OTE
+ Equity
5 days a week in office
The career platform for Gen Z
Open for applications
The career platform for Gen Z
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$108-150k
OTE
+ Equity
5 days a week in office
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
- 4+ years relevant work experience, preferably in customer facing SaaS, recruiting, implementation, or professional services roles
- The ability to understand customer business goals and recommend new approaches, strategies and ways to drive adoption and help them hit their hiring targets or solve complex challenges
- An understanding of ever-evolving needs of a dynamic, growing start-up organization
- The ability to thrive in ambiguity and work quickly, but not rush
- Excellent communication and relationship management skills, including experience presenting to stakeholders and leading training sessions
- Strong communication and relationship management skills
- Strong project management skills and experience owning and driving projects end to end
- Strong analytical and critical thinking skills
- Experience collaborating cross-functionally across teams such as sales, product, and marketing
What the job involves
- Handshake is hiring a Program Manager to support our Employer Customer Success team in driving adoption, retention, and expansion of our platform
- In this role, you will collaborate closely with Account Managers and Customer Success Managers to help our premium employer partners achieve their early talent hiring goals
- You will execute strategic projects, develop recruiting campaigns, and provide data-driven insights that empower employers to attract and hire top entry-level talent
- Drive employer success by executing project-based work that supports adoption, retention, and expansion efforts across the platform
- Develop targeted recruiting campaigns by crafting messaging, identifying relevant audiences, and executing outreach to help employers connect with entry-level talent
- Analyze hiring trends and performance metrics through custom reporting, school strategy insights, and ongoing audits of employer activity
- Build and maintain strong relationships with end users, ensuring they maximize platform value and achieve measurable ROI
- Create and maintain best practices and training materials focused on diversity and inclusion, sourcing strategies, and platform optimization
- Serve as a Handshake product expert, advising employer partners on how to maximize their recruiting success within the platform
- Collaborate cross-functionally with internal teams to enhance the employer experience and drive product adoption
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
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
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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