Senior Product Manager, Mobile

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.

Please make sure you read the following details carefully before making any applications.

Your impact Handshake is hiring a Senior Product Manager to help us deliver a world-class consumer experience on iOS and Android.

More than half of college students in the US have a profile on Handshake, but they’re still spending the majority of their time using our web app to search for jobs.

In order to fully realize our mission and goals, and expand the use cases that students are choosing Handshake for, we know that we need to meet them where they spend most of their time - on their phones.

In this role, you will own the overall craft and quality of our mobile apps, and you will work with PMs from across the company to make sure that each of their products is contributing positively to the mobile experience.

Your role

• Product Strategy . You’ll ensure that your squad has 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 relevant 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 focused. 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 decision-making, 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).

Compensation range

$165,000-190,000

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 share salary ranges on all job postings regardless of desired hiring location.

Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors, including geographic location as well as candidate experience and expertise, and may vary from the amounts listed above.

About usHandshake is the #1 place to launch a career with no connections, experience, or luck required. The platform connects up-and-coming talent with 750,000+ employers - from Fortune 500 companies like Google, Nike, and Target to thousands of public school districts, healthcare systems, and nonprofits.

In 2022 we announced our $200M Series F funding round. This Series F fundraise and valuation of $3.5B will fuel Handshake’s next phase of growth and propel our mission to help more people start, restart, and jumpstart their careers.

What we offerAt Handshake, we'll give you the tools to feel healthy, happy, and secure. Benefits below apply to employees in full-time positions.

• Equity and ownership in a fast-growing company.
• 16 Weeks of paid parental leave for birth-giving parents & 10 weeks of paid parental leave for non-birth-giving parents.
• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision policies including LGBTQ+ Coverage. We also provide resources for Mental Health Assistance, Employee Assistance Programs, and counseling support.
• Handshake offers $500 / £360 home office stipend for you to spend during your first 3 months to create a productive and comfortable workspace at home.
• Generous learning & development opportunities and an annual $2,000 / £1,500 / €1,850 stipend for you to grow your skills and career.
• Financial coaching through Origin to help you through your financial journey.
• Monthly internet stipend and a brand new MacBook to allow you to do your best work.
• Monthly commuter stipend for you to expense your travel to the office (for office-based employees).
• Free lunch provided twice a week across all offices.
• Referral bonus to reward you when you bring great talent to Handshake.

US-specific benefits, in addition to the first section)

• 401k Match : Handshake offers a dollar-for-dollar match on 1% of deferred salary, up to a maximum of $1,200 per year.
• All full-time US-based Handshakers are eligible for our flexible time off policy to get out and see the world. In addition, we offer 8 standardized holidays, and 2 additional days of flexible holiday time off.

Lastly, we have a Winter #ShakeBreak, a one-week period of Collective Time Off.

Lactation support : Handshake partners with Milk Stork to provide a comprehensive 100% employer-sponsored lactation support to traveling parents and guardians.

Handshake is committed to providing reasonable accommodations in our recruitment processes for candidates with disabilities, sincerely held religious beliefs or other reasons protected by applicable laws.

If you need assistance or reasonable accommodation, please reach out to us at [email protected].

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