About Handshake

Handshake was founded on a simple belief that everyone deserves a path to a great career regardless of where they went to school or who they know. Today we power 25 million job seekers 1 million employers and 1600 educational institutions.

In 2025 we started Handshake AI and built the fastest-growing AI data business in history. We work directly with frontier AI lab researchers to create evaluations publish benchmarks and push the boundary of data. Weve grown from $0 to $1B run rate and pay $60M to over 30K individuals every month.

Why join Handshake now:

• Shape how every career evolves in the AI economy at global scale with impact your friends family and peers can see and feel

• Partner hand-in-hand with world-class AI labs Fortune 500 partners and the worlds top educational institutions

• Work together with engineers scientists operators and more from Palantir Meta Scale AI and former YC founders

• Build a massive fast-growing business with billions in revenue

About the Role

The Senior Engineering Manager of Growth Engineering at Handshake owns one of the most strategically important growth levers and platforms in the company the systems that power how we acquire activate and retain users across the entire Handshake ecosystem.

This isnt a single-product role. Youll lead a platform that cuts across every surface of Handshake serving as a foundational lever for company growth. Youll partner closely with Product Data and Marketing to define what the growth loop looks like at scale and then build the infrastructure and product capabilities to make it real. Youll lead a growing team of engineers and are expected to up level and build leadership capacity as the team scales.

Location: San Francisco CA. This is an in-office role 5 days/week (no remote/hybrid).

What Youll Do

• Lead and grow a high-performing Growth Engineering team hire develop and retain strong engineers; build the leadership layer needed to scale

• Own the full growth funnel acquisition activation retention and notification systems that move the needle on Handshakes core growth metrics

• Build a scalable extensible growth platform modular infrastructure that enables rapid experimentation personalization and lifecycle targeting across the product

• Drive architecture and technical strategy design systems for reliability performance and speed-to-ship balancing platform investments with high-impact product bets

• Partner cross-functionally work shoulder-to-shoulder with Product Data Science and Marketing to align on growth strategy and execution

• Raise the engineering bar champion strong fundamentals: observability experimentation rigor data integrity and engineering quality at scale

• Operate with ownership and velocity set the standard for a team culture that moves fast takes accountability and delivers in ambiguous high-stakes environments

What Were Looking For

• Engineering leader builder: 4 years managing engineering teams 5 years of hands-on engineering experience

• Growth or platform background: Experience owning systems that drive user acquisition activation or retention or platform infrastructure that powers growth at scale

• Strong people leadership: Track record of developing senior engineers; experience managing managers or equivalent scope is a strong plus

• Execution in ambiguity: Able to align cross-functionally build clarity from ambiguity and deliver iteratively in fast-moving environments

• Balanced product systems mindset: Can translate business and growth goals into technical roadmaps ship with urgency and measure outcomes rigorously

Nice to Have

• Experience building experimentation platforms A/B testing infrastructure or personalization systems

• Background in lifecycle marketing infrastructure (notifications email push in-app messaging)

• Familiarity with growth analytics funnel instrumentation or event tracking at scale

• Experience in two-sided marketplace or consumer/prosumer products

Perks

Handshake delivers benefits that help you feel supportedand 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: $2000 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 Experience:

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