Handshake

Principal Product Manager

3 month

Job Description

Your impact

Handshake is hiring a Principal Product Manage reporting to the Senior Director, Product on our Employer team. Employers already account for a lionโ€™s share of Handshakeโ€™s revenue, and we expect this growth to continue as we scale our SaaS offering and define the category of proactive, data-driven recruiting that helps employers hire entry level talent and young professionals find their first and second jobs. 

Weโ€™ve made strides to become the market leader in college jobs, recruiting events, and novel methods for employers to reach both targeted and broad talent pools. Youโ€™ll be building on this foundation, creating new products and reimagining existing ones to transform how employers form trust-based relationships with candidates across multiple mediums that scales for a marketplace of millions of active users. 

Youโ€™ll be part of a close-knit cross-functional team of not just R&D but also Go-To-Market, including marketing operations, product marketing, sales, customer success and insights. At the same time, youโ€™ll be mindful about making a positive societal impact, increasing access for diverse talent in entry level recruiting.

Your role

Youโ€™ll own the lifecycle end-to-end for your product area, including:

  • Leadership. Youโ€™ll represent your squad and product area to executives, and translate company-wide strategies to your squad and into your roadmap. Youโ€™ll inspire your team on the product vision.
  • Product strategy. Youโ€™ll ensure that your squads have a cohesive and differentiated product strategy that ladders up into the Employer team and company strategy.
  • Product development: Youโ€™ll lead a high performing cross-functional squad, including engineering and design partners, from research and roadmap planning to delivery 
  • Launch and adoption: Youโ€™ll partner closely on go-to-market and implementation, working with marketing, sales and customer success. You never hesitate to roll up your sleeves and tackle something hands-on. Itโ€™s never someone elseโ€™s problem. Youโ€™ll run beta programs and pilots to maximize learning and minimize code investment, getting close to the customer and the details through the process. 
  • Cross-Handshake partnership: Youโ€™ll work with stakeholders across Handshakeโ€™s largest team (the broader Employer team) and on other sides of the Handshake marketplace (EDUs and Student) to innovate quickly but deliberately
  • Goals, metrics and tracking: Youโ€™ll create a robust and clear thread of data from strategy through development through in-market iteration.

Your experience

  • Strong foundation in roadmap development and releasing products for complex, multifaceted marketplace businesses or SaaS platforms.
  • 7+ years partnering with engineering teams to ship code. Ideally in a many-stakeholder environment with dependencies and collaboration. 
  • Strong systems and analytical thinker. Can connect the dots, spot challenges and edge cases, integrate multiple considerations.
  • Extensive experience presenting both internally and externally including working with customers, users, and internal cross-functional partners and executives.
  • Working knowledge of data-driven applications including mapping, schemas, permissions that inform user interactions and downstream analytics.
  • User focused. You dive headfirst into understanding the needs of employers and build products grounded in data and research.

Bonus areas of expertise

  • Revenue-generating entrepreneurial experience 
  • Product management experience in both fast-growing consumer marketplaces and SaaS businesses with 100+ employees is a major plus.
  • Development of B2B products connecting to a marketplace platform (e.g. the supplier side of an e-commerce marketplace)

Compensation range

  • $180,000 - $215,000

About Handshake

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At Handshake we create opportunities for all students and recent graduates to have equal access to meaningful jobs and internships, and we believe design plays a crucial role in the pursuit of this mission. Under the umbrella of our Chief Design Officer, we are a unified team of product designers, content designers, user experience researchers, brand designers, and design ops folks, all working collaboratively to help students, employers, and career centers.

We take a student-first approach to how we design and build products, and we strive to deeply understand our users and their true goals. We believe that great products and experiences are made great by the combination of how they work and how they look. One without the other is not enough, and while we're not perfect, we strive to excel in both and are committed to going the extra mile.

Great products are built by teams โ€” and teams are built by people who communicate and collaborate well. A culture of openness, honesty, and the ability to provide and receive constructive feedback is important to us.

We also believe that great teams are inclusive. Being surrounded by a diversity of backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives brings out the best in everyone, and leads to higher quality products and experiences.

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