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Today, we power 25 million job seekers, 1 million+ employers, and 1,600 educational institutions. In 2025, we started Handshake AI and built the fastest-growing AI data business in history. We work directly with frontier AI lab researchers to create evaluations, publish benchmarks, and push the boundary of data. Weve grown from $0 to ~$1B run rate and pay ~$60M to over 30K individuals every month.\n\n### Why join Handshake now:\n\n- Shape how every career evolves in the AI economy, at global scale, with impact your friends, family and peers can see and feel\n- Partner hand-in-hand with world-class AI labs, Fortune 500 partners and the worlds top educational institutions\n- Work together with engineers, scientists, operators, and more from Palantir, Meta, Scale AI, and former YC founders\n- Build a massive, fast-growing business with billions in revenue\n\n### Your role\n\nHandshake AI Enterprise is building the product layer for AI applications deployed directly into the workflows of the worlds leading companies. This role begins as a contract engagement with the opportunity to convert to full-time based on mutual fit. We work hand-in-hand with enterprise customers, from Fortune 500s to frontier AI labs, to understand their problems deeply and build solutions that are delightful to use.\n\nWere looking for a Founding Product Designer to own the design function from the ground up. Youll be the person who holds the bar, owning design end-to-end across every customer deployment, pairing direct customer impact with founding-team ownership, and helping establish a product that scales with us.\n\n- Collaborate with product, engineering, data, research, sales, and operations to define and build the vision, owning design from early research through high-fidelity, and partnering on demos and prototyping.\n- Get close to enterprise customers and operators: run pilots, shadow workflows, uncover pain points, and translate what you learn into clear, simple solutions and prioritized investments.\n- Develop strategic product visions, sequence them into pragmatic phases, and tackle complex, ambiguous problems with a strong point of view on craft.\n- Operate entrepreneurially: move fast, make decisions with incomplete info, and find creative ways to unblock yourself and your team.\n- Raise the bar for design culture and execution through systems thinking, product reasoning, pixel-level precision, and facilitation.\n\n### Your experience\n\n- 5–7+ years of product design experience, ideally on enterprise products, operations tooling, or internal platforms.\n- Youve designed and shipped production-grade features customers love across complex systems, workflows, and platforms.\n- Youve worked directly with customers and end users, and know how to connect what you learn to business goals and technical constraints. 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