Senior Product Manager, Analytics
We are thrilled to announce Handshake’s $200M Series F funding round. At Handshake, we believe that a career opportunity shouldn’t be determined by who you know or what you’ve done. It’s about what you can - and will - do. Your future, not your past. Our Series F fundraise and new valuation of $3.5B will fuel our next phase of growth and propel our mission to help more people start, restart, and jumpstart their careers.
Handshake is the #1 place to launch a career with no connections, experience, or luck required. Handshake’s community includes 20 million students and young alumni around the world from 1,400 educational institutions, including four-year colleges, community colleges, boot camps, and 290+ minority-serving institutions. The platform connects up-and-coming talent with 650,000+ employers - from Fortune 500 companies like Google, Nike, and Target to thousands of public school districts, healthcare systems, nonprofits, and even sports teams like the LA Dodgers. Handshake is headquartered in San Francisco with offices in Denver, New York, and London and teammates working globally.
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 reporting to the VP of Product on the Employer team. Employers already account for a lion’s share of Handshake’s revenue and we expect this growth to continue as we scale our SaaS offering and define the category of proactive, data-driven recruiting for entry level (college) talent.
While we’ve made impressive strides in becoming the market leader in college jobs, recruiting events, and employer outreach, we’re just getting started. You’ll build on this foundation, creating new features and reimagining existing ones to transform how employers understand and achieve success with the Handshake marketplace.
You’ll be part of a close-knit cross-functional team including not just R&D but also demand generation, marketing operations, product marketing, sales, customer success and insights - together building a truly game-changing SaaS platform. At the same time, you’ll be mindful about making positive societal impact, including improving diversity, equity and inclusion in entry level recruiting.
Your Role
As a senior product manager, you’ll plan and deliver a roadmap to:
Expand and innovate: our employer product offering to transform the recruiting process, and provide ever increasing value to our Premium subscribers.
Engage users: find opportunities to drive engagement and outcomes for employer users
Drive marketplace value: continually strive to identify and optimize the key points of value creation across all three sides of the network
You’ll own the lifecycle end-to-end for your product area, including:
Product development process: Leading a high performing cross-functional squad, including engineering and design partners, from research and roadmap planning to delivery
Launch and adoption: 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. It’s never someone else’s problem. You’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: Work with stakeholders across Handshake’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: 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.
4+ 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
Development of B2B products connecting to a marketplace platform (e.g. the supplier side of an e-commerce marketplace)
Compensation Range
116,000-190,000 dependent on level & location
- Stock: Ownership in a fast-growing company.
- 401k: We care about your ability to save for your future.
- Hub-based Remote Work: Handshakers can enjoy the flexibility of remote work, whilst ensuring collaboration and team experiences in a shared space remains possible.
- Time Off: Flexible vacation policy to encourage people to get out and see the world.
- Healthcare: World-class medical, dental, and vision policies including LGTBQ+ Coverage.
- Family Focus: Parental leave and flexibility for families.
- Mental Health Assistance: You’ve got a lot on your mind, which can lead to less attention on your mental health. We’re here to help and support you every step of the way.
- Financial Management with Origin: We provide you with a professional financial planner via so that you can gain a better understanding of making the most of your compensation, equity, benefits, 401k and perks.
- Goodies: Whatever hardware and software you need to get the job done.
- Team Fun: Regularly scheduled virtual events, happy hours, and book clubs! Once it’s safe, we’ll provide meaningful connection points throughout the year for Handshakers to build community and meet teammates in-person.
- Learning: Learning & Development opportunities and an annual $2,000 stipend for you to grow your skills and career.
- Great team: Working with fun, hardworking, nice people who are committed to making a difference!
- ...And much more! Explore our comprehensive benefits at joinhandshake.com/careers.
Benefits above apply to employees in full-time positions.
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