Enterprise Product Design Lead, Marketplace

Handshake is the number one site for college students to find a job. Today, the Handshake community includes 17 million students and young alumni at over 1,000 colleges and universities — including 120+ minority-serving institutions. We connect up-and-coming talent across all 50 states with nearly 500,000 employers recruiting on Handshake — from every Fortune 500 company to thousands of small businesses, nonprofits, startups, and more. Handshake is democratizing opportunity and ensuring college students have the support they need to find a great job and kick-off a meaningful career regardless of where they go to school, what they choose as a major, and who they know.

We welcome all people. We celebrate diversity of all kinds and are committed to creating an inclusive culture built on a foundation of respect for all individuals. We seek to hire, develop and retain talented people from all backgrounds. Individuals from non-traditional backgrounds, historically marginalized or underrepresented groups strongly encouraged to apply.

If you are not sure that you’re 100% qualified, but up for the challenge - we want you to apply.

Design at Handshake

We’re designing the future of career discovery and recruiting for students; from their initial school acceptance letters to their first job offers, we’re committed to understanding and supporting each student as they navigate one of life’s most complex journeys.

Our design team is growing and we cover a lot of ground. We collaborate with every team across Handshake—from product management to engineering; from sales to support—because incorporating insights from across the business leads to better design outcomes. Creativity thrives in diverse environments, and we’re committed to growing a design team that reflects the diversity of students we serve and support.

Your Impact

Handshake is hiring a Lead Designer working with our Employer Marketplace team. This role will require you to span from strategy to surface, bringing a talent for systems thinking, simple data driven design, and seamless user experiences to support Handshake’s employer products. This team focuses specifically on how employers can successfully engage students. You will own the end to end experience for core job creation, virtual recruiting and student reach-out. 

Your Role

• Work from concept to delivery to inform product strategy and shape how employers create authentic connections with students
• Lead with user empathy for employers, but also students and universities
• Partner with product, research, content, data science and engineering to ensure projects are well defined, high impact, and successfully executed
• Develop and improve a shared product design language across all enterprise surfaces reflective of our brand
• Up level the entire team through commitment to growth and mentorship
• Drive the  transformation of our employer and education products into leading SaaS platforms
• Establish design processes so we can scale efficiently and effectively

Your Experience

• Experience designing consumer or enterprise products
• Demonstrated experience leading design
• Comprehension of human centered / user centered design methodology and techniques
• Experience working with engineers and product managers to drive strategy, vision, and execution
• A collaborative, no ego, approach to working with others
• A portfolio of impeccably executed consumer / enterprise product design

Benefits

• Stock: Ownership in a fast-growing company.
• 401k: We care about your ability to save for your future.
• Family Focus: Parental leave and flexibility for families.
• Time Off: Flexible vacation policy to encourage people to get out and see the world.
• Healthcare: World-class medical, dental, and vision policies.
• Goodies: Whatever hardware and software you need to get the job done.
• Team Fun: Regularly scheduled events, sports, game nights, book clubs.
• Learning: Learning & Development opportunities for you to grow your skills and career.
• Great team: Working with fun, hardworking, nice people who are committed to making a difference!
• ...and much more!

We value diversity of all kinds, and are committed to building a diverse and inclusive workplace where we learn from each other. We are an equal opportunity employer and welcome people of all different backgrounds, experiences, abilities and perspectives.