Handshake · 1 week ago
Director, Product Design
San Francisco, CA
Full-time
Onsite
Director/Executive
$245K/yr - $270K/yrHandshake is the career network for the AI economy, connecting knowledge workers, educational institutions, and employers to power career discovery and hiring. The Director of Product Design will collaborate with cross-functional teams to create impactful products, build and lead a design team, and influence the strategic direction of the product organization.
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Responsibilities
Collaborate closely with your cross-functional partners: research, product, engineering, analytics, and marketing to ship and iterate on strategic, great-to-use products that make real impact for both our customers and business
Set your team up to succeed: hire and grow the team; 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, break up those visions into pragmatic phases to scaffold our way forward
Influence and evolve 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
Foster and operationalize a productive, inclusive design team culture alongside your design leads teammates, ensuring everyone is supported and set up to do their best work and their best teamwork
Qualification
Required
You've designed and shipped products, especially for mobile platforms, 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 have plenty of experience navigating complex systems, ambiguity, experimentation; you're pragmatic, flexible, and creative in seeking out solutions and paths forward
You relish using your design skills to bring clarity and simplicity to both process and product, and can demonstrate that you've done so effectively in the past
You've got a track record of building up and developing happy, high-performing teams; you take pride and joy in setting up designers from a wide variety of backgrounds for top-notch performance, impeccable vibes and constant learning; you seek innovative ways to flow around any barriers
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
Preferred
Extra bonus if you're experienced with leading one or more of: multi-sided marketplaces, growth, b2b
Benefits
Equity in a fast-growing company
401(k) match, competitive compensation, financial coaching
Paid parental leave, fertility benefits, parental coaching
Medical, dental, and vision, mental health support, $500 wellness stipend
$2,000 learning stipend, ongoing development
Internet, commuting, and free lunch/gym in our SF office
Flexible PTO, 15 holidays + 2 flex days
Team outings & referral bonuses
Company
Handshake
Handshake is a college career network that helps students and recent graduates find their next opportunity.
Founded in 2014
501-1000 employees
H1B Sponsorship
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Trends of Total Sponsorships
2025 (24)
2024 (14)
2023 (7)
2022 (15)
2021 (6)
2020 (4)
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$434MKey Investors
Notable CapitalEQT VenturesSpark Capital
2022-01-19Series F· $200M
2021-05-12Series E· $80M
2020-10-20Series D· $80M
Leadership Team
Garrett Lord
CEO - Co-Founder
Ben Christensen
Co-Founder
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