Staff Product Designer (Visual Design & Systems, Autonomous Recruiting) Handshake

• We’re building a new, AI-native product from the ground up—one that reimagines how recruiters and hiring managers source, engage, and manage talent from a blank slate
• The visual language we set in the next few months will shape it for years
• As a Staff Product Designer, you’ll set the craft bar for the product and raise it for the entire Employer design team, while owning the design system that keeps our work coherent
• You’re a hands-on maker first, with a clear spike in visual design
• You’ll design some of the best-looking, best-feeling screens on the team yourself, and make everyone else’s work better through the system, craft reviews, and pairing
• Our goal is enterprise-grade reliability with consumer-grade craft: a product that feels calm, intelligent, and clearly hierarchical
• This is a judgment role as much as a craft role
• You’ll bring a strong point of view on what belongs in the product, and what we leave out
• Own the visual and interaction quality of the product’s most important surfaces, from early exploration through shipped UI
• Own the design system for the Employer design team, keeping Figma and code in sync with engineering
• Define motion and micro-interactions that shape how an AI product feels to use
• Raise the bar for the whole team by leading craft reviews, pairing with designers, and documenting the principles behind good work
• Partner closely with product, engineering, and data to shape the product experience
• Collaborate with designers across the broader employer experience to ensure a coherent, unified product

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