Remember the uncertainty of searching for your first job? First internship, second job? Does anyone slide seamlessly into the start of their careers? Most of us don’t; for millions of students every year, it feels like a mission fraught with invisible traps, no map, and the looming prospect of bills to pay. Access to help is not evenly distributed: not to connections nor to information on what's even possible out there.
That's where Handshake comes in. Our mission is to democratize access to opportunity: to help every student find the right job, no matter where they're from or who they know. We’re the career network for Gen Z, with over 15M+ job seekers, 1M+ employers, and 1500+ career centers coming together on our platform. Students need jobs and career guidance and a professional community, employers want to find and make great early-talent hires, and career centers help us help everyone, ensuring it's not just students in-the-know who get in the doors. We’re seeking you and your design chops to help make it the best experience for all those involved!
Come help make our design team world-class to tackle this very tangible, incentives-aligned, real-world problem. As a Staff Product Designer focused on Mobile Design Systems, you'll play a pivotal role in shaping our transition to a mobile-first approach. This position is centered on constructing and refining a robust mobile component system that will serve as the backbone for our product development. You will have the opportunity to influence our strategy and create the tools that empower our broader team to develop faster and more efficiently for the devices our customers use most.
What you'll do at Handshake
Define, craft, and iterate the company's Mobile Design System, ensuring it meets usability and performance standards
Explore, share, and implement the newest mobile platform capabilities, staying in-the-know about iOS and Android’s evolution.
Collaborate closely with your partners, both cross-functionally and within design: research, PM, engineering, analytics, design, brand, marketing – to ship and iterate on strategic, well-thought-out, surprisingly great-to-use products that make real impact for both our customers and business
Track and analyze user behavior to find areas of friction and opportunities for design improvements within the component and how users interact with it
Help your team succeed: raise the bar on culture, operations, and execution of design work, including product reasoning, systems thinking, pixel level precision, mobile prototyping, ability to facilitate conversations with and present to stakeholders, stellar teamwork and mentoring
Strengthen the overall product organization's ability to experiment, iterate, and learn alongside your product organization lead teammates; develop well-informed strategic visions of where we're headed, collaborate to break them into pragmatic phases to scaffold our way forward
Inform creative direction and information architecture alongside your design leader teammates and the VP of Design to weave a seamless, symbiotic experience across the disparate areas of our three-sided marketplace
We'd love to hear from you if:
You’ve created and/or maintained a mobile design system.
You've designed and shipped products, including mobile and desktop, that customers love, and can systematically, clearly articulate what it took to make that happen, from high-level strategy down to pixel-level decision-making
You know how to roll data, research, business goals, technical constraints, and customer needs together into strongly-crafted solutions (mocks, prototypes, flows); you iterate fast, ensure you gather feedback, use strategic reasoning to inform your decisions
You relish using your design skills to bring clarity and simplicity to both process and product
You're humble and kind despite your track record, excited to keep learning, curious about the workings of a three-sided marketplace and ever-evolving team / product surface area
Extra bonus if you're experienced with one or more of: multi-sided marketplaces, growth, design systems, B2B