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Handshake is seeking a Senior Product Manager to join their new Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE) team, focusing on building training data for AI models. This entrepreneurial role involves embedding with high-value customers to understand their specific needs and toolings, then designing and delivering bespoke solutions that can be integrated into the core platform. You will own the customer-embedded discovery, the off-platform tasking experience for fellows, and defining success metrics for this new product function. The ideal candidate has 5+ years of product management experience, particularly in customer-facing, integration, or platform roles, and thrives in ambiguous, fast-paced environments.
Handshake is the career network for the AI economy. 20 million knowledge workers, 1,600 educational institutions, 1 million employers (including 100% of the Fortune 50), and every foundational AI lab trust Handshake to power career discovery, hiring, and upskilling, from freelance AI training gigs to first internships to full-time careers and beyond. This unique value is leading to unparalleled growth; in 2025, we tripled our ARR at scale.
Why join Handshake now:
Handshake AI builds the training data that frontier labs use to push their models forward. Our Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE) team is a high-leverage group of engineers who embed directly with our highest-value customers, become experts in each customer’s specific needs, and build the bespoke solutions that win business and make engagements succeed. We’re hiring a Senior Product Manager to be the first PM embedded with this team. This is a highly entrepreneurial role: you’ll be designing the product function for FDE as much as running it.
A centerpiece of the role is off-platform tasking: our customers often want work completed directly in their own tools and environments like lab-built annotation surfaces, specialized research environments, and third-party platforms we integrate with on their behalf. You’ll own that experience end to end, making it as seamless and trustworthy for our fellows to discover and access work on external surfaces, complete tasks, track time, get paid, and receive quality feedback. You’ll be the expert on each customer’s unique environment, and what it takes to make fellows successful on them.
You’ll embed with a customer, deeply understand their tooling and constraints, ship the solution that unlocks the engagement fast, and then help identify which of those solutions should graduate into the platform so the next ten customers get them out of the box. You’ll work across whatever our highest-value customers need next, with the autonomy to move quickly and the visibility that comes with revenue-critical work.
Handshake delivers benefits that help you feel supported and thrive at work and in life.
The below benefits are for full-time US employees.
🎯 Ownership: Equity in a fast-growing company
💰 Financial Wellness: 401(k) match, competitive compensation, financial coaching
🍼 Family Support: Paid parental leave, fertility benefits, parental coaching
💝 Wellbeing: Medical, dental, and vision, mental health support, $500 wellness stipend
📚 Growth: $2,000 learning stipend, ongoing development
💻 Remote & Office: Internet, commuting, and free lunch/gym in our SF office
🏝 Time Off: Flexible PTO, 15 holidays + 2 flex days
🤝 Connection: Team outings & referral bonuses
Explore our mission, values, and comprehensive US benefits at joinhandshake.com/careers.