Data Scientist, Handshake
Product Analytics
$150-200k
College career network and job board
Be an early applicant
College career network and job board
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
$150-200k
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 of professional data science experience
- Experience using data to support product development, including working with cross-functional teams
- Proficiency in SQL and comfort working in Jupyter-style notebooks using Python or R
- Awareness with A/B testing and experimentation best practices
- Ability to conduct analysis across user cohorts, funnels, and time-series datasets
- Robust written and verbal communication skills, especially in summarizing insights for non-technical audiences
- Experience with BI tools such as Looker, Hex, or Mode
Desirable
- Exposure to product analytics in a multi-sided marketplace
- Knowledge with dbt or similar data modeling frameworks
- Prior experience contributing to data-informed product strategies
What the job involves
- Handshake is looking for a Data Scientist, Product Analytics to help shape how we measure and grow the impact of our products across students, employers, and university partners.
- In this role, you’ll partner with product, engineering, and analytics stakeholders to deliver actionable insights and experimentation frameworks that guide key product and growth decisions. You’ll be embedded in our Data team and report to the Senior Manager of Data & Analytics
- As a Data Scientist at Handshake, you will:
- Collaborate with product managers and engineers to identify key metrics and drive analytics workstreams
- Analyze user behavior to uncover trends, patterns, and opportunities for product improvement
- Contribute to experiment design, implementation, and analysis to guide feature development
- Build and maintain dashboards and reports to support ongoing tracking and decision-making
- Help define and refine data models in partnership with Analytics Engineering
- Translate complex data findings into clear, actionable insights for cross-functional stakeholders
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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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
- 🏦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
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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