Your impact

Handshake is hiring a Senior Product Manager to help us deliver a world class consumer experience. More than half of college students in the US have a profile on Handshake but they’re using the platform primarily as a transactional job board. In this role, you will work with a cross-functional team to deliver a roadmap that helps students grow their careers through content and community and transforms Handshake into Gen Z’s professional social network. 

Ultimately, we believe Handshake can give every student access to the career-defining power of a supportive community and we need your help to make that happen!

Your role

• In this role, you’ll lead one of several high-impact product areas central to our vision of building Gen Z’s professional social network. You may own the end-to-end mobile experience, driving platform-wide strategy and adoption; people search and discovery, connecting students to peers, mentors, and communities that accelerate their career journey or lead onboarding and activation, ensuring students experience early value and form lasting habits on Handshake. The exact scope will depend on your strengths, interests, and our evolving roadmap — but all of these areas are critical to our mission of helping students grow their careers through content and community.

  • Product Strategy. You’ll ensure that your squads have a cohesive and differentiated product strategy that ladders up into the Content & Community team and company strategy.

  • Leadership. You’ll represent your squad and product area to executives, and translate company-wide strategies to your squad and into your roadmap. You’ll inspire your team on the product vision.

  • Goal Setting. You’ll hold your squads accountable to clear goals that ensure they are tracking effectively towards their strategy.

  • Planning and Execution. You’ll lead your team and stakeholders in prioritizing and collaborating on the roadmap while ensuring we have appropriate alignment with appropriate stakeholders. You will also exercise influence on adjacent product areas and organization-wide strategy.

  • Collaboration. You’ll work closely with other key leaders in the Content & Community team (i.e. design, marketing, engineering, data) as well as leaders in other lines of businesses (E.g. Career Events, Paid Employer offerings) to ensure cohesive strategy and execution.

Your experience

• Customer expert. You understand the needs of your customer better than anyone else and prioritize them everywhere, grounding your approach in data and research.

• Marketplace Fluent. You think holistically across the different user types and their respective incentives in a marketplace to create “matched”, end-to-end, successful products.

• Strong systems and analytical thinker. Can connect the dots, spot challenges and edge cases, integrate multiple considerations.

• Experience launching and managing a consumer social product with 1M+ active users

• Expert at using data for tactical and strategic decisioning, goal setting, and iterating quickly

Bonus areas of expertise

• PM experience leading the development and launch of net new, “zero to one” consumer products

• Experience managing a consumer product with significant scale (i.e. 10MM+ users)