Principal Product Manager, Handshake

• Customer expert. You understand the needs of your customer better than anyone else and prioritize them everywhere, grounding your approach in data and research
• Marketplace Fluent. You think holistically across the different user types and their respective incentives in a marketplace to create “matched”, end-to-end, successful products
• Strong systems and analytical thinker. Can connect the dots, spot challenges and edge cases, integrate multiple considerations
• Experience working in scaled product with 1M+ active users

Desirable

• Handshake is hiring a Principal Product Manager for our Marketplace team to help us deliver a world class consumer and employer experience
• More than half of college students and over 1 million employers in the US are connecting on Handshake
• In this role, you will work with a cross-functional team to deliver a roadmap that grows the ‘outcomes’ within our jobs marketplace, leading to more qualified applications, and successful hires for both candidates and employers
• You’ll also be partnering with our employer team to introduce more channels for job promotions that help employers reach their target audiences with jobs and other content
• In this role, you’ll lead one of several high-impact product areas central to growing the overall pool of qualified applicants on the platform
• You may own new jobs search or application experiences, introducing new promotion channels for jobs and/or content, the end-to-end job creation process, dynamic pricing for promotions, and/or reporting and analytics on promoted objects
• The exact scope will depend on your strengths, interests, and our evolving roadmap — but all of these areas are critical to our mission of building a more efficient marketplace
• Product Strategy. You’ll ensure that your squads have a cohesive and differentiated product strategy that ladders up into the Marketplace Outcomes team and company strategy
• Leadership. 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
• Goal Setting. You’ll hold your squads accountable to clear goals that ensure they are tracking effectively towards their strategy
• You can model quantitative impacts across different market segments
• Planning and Execution. You’ll lead your team and stakeholders in prioritizing and collaborating on the roadmap while ensuring we have appropriate alignment with appropriate stakeholders
• You will also exercise influence on adjacent product areas and organization-wide strategy
• Collaboration. You’ll work closely with other key leaders in the R&D team (i.e. design, marketing, engineering, data) as well as leaders in other lines of businesses (E.g. GTM, consumer growth, employer experience) to ensure cohesive strategy and execution