Full-Time
Principal Product Manager
Consumer
Confirmed live in the last 24 hours
Handshake
501-1,000 employees
Connects students with job opportunities
Compensation Overview
$200k - $250kAnnually
Senior, Expert
San Francisco, CA, USA
Hybrid work model: employees work in the office three days per week and have the flexibility of remote work two days per week.
You match the following Handshake's candidate preferences
Employers are more likely to interview you if you match these preferences:
- Customer focused. You understand the needs of your customer intimately and represent them everywhere, grounding your approach in data and research.
- Marketplace savvy. You understand different user types and can reason about incentives in a marketplace to create successful products.
- Strong 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
- Comfortable using data for tactical and strategic decisioning, goal setting, and iterating quickly.
- You’ll ensure that your squad has a cohesive product strategy that ladders up into the Content & Community team and company strategy.
- You’ll work with your team leads to represent your product area to executives, and translate company-wide strategies to your squad and into your roadmap.
- You’ll help hold your squad accountable to clear goals that ensure they are tracking effectively towards the strategy.
- You’ll help your team and stakeholders prioritize and collaborate on the roadmap while ensuring we have appropriate alignment with stakeholders.
- 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.
- 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)
Handshake connects college students with job and internship opportunities through its platform. It serves over 15 million students, 1,500 universities, and 900,000 employers, focusing on early career recruitment. The platform allows universities to provide students with access to job listings, career fairs, and recruitment events, while employers can post job openings and manage recruitment processes. Handshake's user-friendly interface helps students find and apply for jobs easily, offering a centralized location for listings and insights like company reviews. The company prioritizes data privacy and security, ensuring compliance with regulations like FERPA. Handshake aims to bridge the gap between students and employers, supporting students in their job search and helping universities fulfill their career services mission.
Company Size
501-1,000
Company Stage
Series F
Total Funding
$422.2M
Headquarters
San Francisco, California
Founded
2014
Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- Handshake's new social media-like interface boosts user engagement.
- Growing student loan repayment benefits attract more employers to Handshake.
- Demand for skills-based workforce aligns with Handshake's mission.
What critics are saying
- Emerging competitors like Fizz target Handshake's demographic with financial products.
- Intuit's collaboration may draw students away from Handshake.
- AI-driven skills demand may reduce engagement with Handshake.
What makes Handshake unique
- Handshake connects over 15 million students with 900,000 employers.
- The platform offers a user-friendly interface for job and internship applications.
- Handshake ensures data privacy, complying with regulations like FERPA.
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Benefits
💰Equity and ownership in a fast-growing company.
🍼16 Weeks of paid parental leave
💝Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision
💻Handshake offers $500/£360 home office stipend
📚Generous learning & development opportunities and an annual $2,000/£1,500/2k€ stipend
🏦401k Match: Handshake offers a dollar-for-dollar match on 1% of deferred salary, up to a maximum of $1,200 per year.
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Growth & Insights and Company News
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