Product Manager, Handshake
Analytics & Integrations
Offers equity
College career network and job board
Open for applications
College career network and job board
501-1000 employees
Open for applications
Offers equity
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
- 4+ years partnering with engineering teams to ship code. Ideally in a many-stakeholder environment with cross-functional teams
- Proven track record of prioritizing shipping and delivering great products to users, ideally related to analytics or data integration products
- Strong foundation in roadmap development and releasing products for complex, multi-sided marketplace businesses or SaaS platforms
- Empathy and user focus. You challenge your own assumptions, and dive headfirst into understanding the needs of our local partners and customers
- Exceptional communication skills that includes working with customers, users, and internal cross-functional partners as well as executives
- Strong analytical and quantitative skills. You can create and run data-informed processes and make validated decisions based on research and data
- Having worked with external APIs integrations before is a big plus!
What the job involves
- We are looking for a Product Manager who strives to build world-class products to support our international expansion and the tremendous growth we’re seeing across many geographies and platform areas
- As a Product Manager in Handshake's Europe-based team, you will be responsible for Handshake’s global in-product analytics and data integrations products
- This includes reporting back to enterprise partners on the success of their recruiting programs, to university partners on their students' activity and success on Handshake, and leveraging data sets within Handshake to create unique data-centric job search and career development experiences for students and job seekers
- Additionally, you will be responsible for managing existing and building new API integrations between Handshake and third-party platforms like applicant tracking systems (ATS) and others that employers and schools use in conjunction with Handshake
- Overall, you will play a key role in Handshake's global go-to-market goals and the overall development of our product
- Empower employers and schools: through integrations & APIs, allow our users to seamlessly run their activities across various tools, without redundancies, while ensuring scalability and compatibility with the existing Handshake ecosystem of solutions
- Drive marketplace value: continually strive to identify and optimize the key points of value creation across all three sides of our global network leveraging data and reporting
- Ship new analytics and reporting products: expand Handshake’s employer and university products with enterprise-grade reporting and analytics on platform usage and impact
- Drive data footprint strategy: own projects and initiatives that determine what data Handshake acquires, processes and reports on, adhering to all relevant privacy and security requirements
- Being an expert data steward: Working closely with our partners, customers and teams in the regions, to fully understand the nuances, what reporting matters most to our partners, how to confidently collect and report on it, while ensuring top-tier privacy and security controls around data stewardship
- Owning the product delivery process: Leading a high-performing cross-functional squad, including engineering and design, from research and roadmap planning to delivery
- Driving the launch and adoption: Partnering closely on go-to-market and implementation, working with marketing, privacy, sales and customer success to ensure a successful launch and adoption across different regions
- Fostering cross-Handshake partnerships: Working with stakeholders across the different Handshake teams on all sides of the 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 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.
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
- 💰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
- 💝Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision policies including LGTBQ+ Coverage. We also provide resources for Mental Health Assistance, Employee Assistance Programs and counseling support
- 💻Handshake offers $500/£360 home office stipend for you to spend during your first 3 months to create a productive and comfortable workspace at home
- 📚Generous learning & development opportunities and an annual $2,000/£1,500 stipend for you to grow your skills and career
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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