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Data Scientist (Handshake AI) Handshake
Career platform for Gen Z to access opportunities and build great careers.
Permanent
San Francisco
Remote: Not specified
135K to 180K $ a year
> 3 years
You'll be part of
2330 employees
Software
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.
You'll be working on
- We’re looking for a highly motivated Data Scientist with strong SQL expertise to support analytics, measurement, and operational insights across our human data training workflows. You’ll work with messy, fast-moving data related to expert performance, task quality, throughput, and overall operational efficiency
- This is a hands-on role with real ownership, close partnership with product and operations, and a steep growth curve for someone who executes well
- Write advanced SQL to analyze large, complex datasets related to expert performance, task quality, and operational workflows
- Define, build, and maintain core metrics that measure data quality, throughput, productivity, and operational efficiency
- Partner with Product, Operations, and cross-functional stakeholders to answer high-impact business and product questions
- Conduct analyses that inform workflow design, task improvements, and operational decision-making
- Build dashboards, reporting, and self-serve analytics that enable fast, informed decisions
- Identify data gaps, inconsistencies, and quality issues, then partner with relevant teams to resolve them
- Translate ambiguous business questions into clear analyses and actionable recommendations
- Communicate findings and recommendations clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
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.
- 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.
- Equity: Our equity program includes grants at hire, refresher grants after two years of tenure, and grants alongside promotions.
- Financial management: Handshake partners to provide free professional financial planning services.
- 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
We're looking for
Communication skills
Training and development
Data engineering
Basic
Pandas
+3
- 3–5 years of experience in Data Science, Product Analytics, Business Intelligence, or a related analytical role
- Expert-level SQL skills and experience working with large, complex datasets
- Experience defining metrics and using data to influence product or business decisions
- Strong communication skills and comfort partnering cross-functionally in a fast-paced environment
- High ownership mindset and ability to independently drive complex work forward
- Strong analytical judgment and comfort working with imperfect, real-world data
- Python experience for data analysis, such as pandas and notebooks
- Experience supporting operational, marketplace, quality, or workforce-related analytics
- Exposure to AI data workflows, data labeling, or evaluation processes
- Experience with experimentation, A/B testing, or metrics-driven product development
- Experience with analytics engineering, including building and maintaining DBT models