Everyone is welcome at Handshake. We know diverse teams build better products and we are committed to creating an inclusive culture built on a foundation of respect for all individuals. We strongly encourage candidates from non-traditional backgrounds, historically marginalized or underrepresented groups to apply.

If you are not sure that you’re 100% qualified, but up for the challenge – we want you to apply. We believe skills are transferable and passion for our mission goes a long way.

Your Impact:

Handshake is hiring a Senior Product Manager to join the Feed and Content team. As Handshake begins its next chapter in scaling up to all career-starters, the way that we enable early talent on our platform to drive career outcomes is central to unlocking the human potential in our three-sided marketplace comprising candidates, career centers, and professionals (recruiters, hiring managers, alumni). In this role, you will lead the squad that is chartered to build the Feed and the end-to-end use cases that revolve around it. A critical part of our vision for the Feed is the distribution of video, as a means to inform and engage students in their career pursuits. The squad’s ownership also includes onboarding, first-time user experience, ranking, personalization, and social actions.

The Feed is how most students experience Handshake; it is a vital step in their job search, exploration, and engagement. The Feed is therefore crucial to achieving our north star company KPI of student engagement. You will have the opportunity to use the Feed to enhance our current experiences, as well as to extend them and create new paths for career success on our platform.

Ultimately, we believe Handshake can become the de facto destination for all early career seekers and we need your help to make that happen!

Your Role

• Product Strategy. You’ll ensure that your squad have a cohesive and differentiated product strategy that ladders up into the Student 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. You’ll participate actively in hiring and mentoring for product team, and your squad.

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

• Planning and Execution. You’ll lead your squad 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 Student 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:

• User focused. You dive headfirst into understanding the needs of students and build products grounded in data, research and your first-hand experiences with users.

• 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.

• Demonstrated ability to build business cases / opportunity assessments to drive prioritization.

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

• Expert at using data for tactical and feature area decisioning, goal setting, and iterating quickly.

Bonus Areas of Expertise: 

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

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

• Experience managing product managers (or other team members)

Compensation Range:

• $150,000 - $195,000

For cash compensation, we set standard ranges for all U.S.-based roles based on function, level, and geographic location, benchmarked against similar stage growth companies. In order to be compliant with local legislation, as well as to provide greater transparency to candidates, we shar