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Handshake AI is the fastest-growing AI data business, having scaled from $0 to ~$1B run rate in 2025. The company powers 25 million job seekers, 1 million+ employers, and 1,600 educational institutions, and pays ~$60M monthly to over 30K individuals for high-quality data that trains frontier AI models.
As Staff Product Designer, you will partner with product, engineering, data, research, and operations teams to build and extend the tasking experience—the central platform that shapes frontier AI models. You will develop strategic product visions and collaborate with partners to sequence them into pragmatic phases. Your work directly enables Quality, Coding, RLE, and Fellow Experience teams.
Key responsibilities include:
- Partner closely with operations leaders and stay embedded in operators' workflows. Run pilots, shadow users, uncover pain points, and translate insights into prioritized investments.
- Tackle complex, ambiguous human-centered problems and translate them into clear, simple solutions.
- Own design end-to-end—from concept through production—iterating quickly through research, user journeys, wireframes, prototypes, and high-fidelity designs with a strong point of view on craft.
- Raise the bar for design culture and execution through systems thinking, product reasoning, pixel-level precision, facilitation, and mentoring.
- Communicate design decisions, tradeoffs, and reasoning clearly to partners and leadership.
You will work alongside engineers, scientists, and operators from Palantir, Meta, Scale AI, and former YC founders on a massive, fast-growing business with billions in revenue potential.
REQUIREMENTS:
- 7+ years of product design experience, ideally on highly complex, interactive products
- Strong communicator who clearly articulates design decisions, tradeoffs, and thinking to partners and leadership
- Deep visual and interaction design expertise with proven track record of shipped work and measurable impact
- Experience designing scalable systems, workflows, or platforms with many moving parts and stakeholders
- Highly collaborative, valuing diverse perspectives and incorporating them into the design process
- Design-led thinker who raises the bar by embedding design thinking into day-to-day work and helping others grow
- Impact-driven with ability to prioritize ruthlessly and focus on work that matters most
- Hands-on and willing to take ownership
- Deeply motivated by Handshake's mission; humble, kind, and curious
- Bonus: experience in model training, conversational AI, or task management systems at a high-growth company
