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Handshake
VP of Product, Handshake AI
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Edtech.com's Summary
Handshake is hiring a VP of Product to lead product strategy for Handshake AI, the company's fastest-growing and most revenue-generating business line. This person owns the roadmap across data modalities, the operator and fellow platforms, and customer-facing surfaces, turning a rapidly compounding business into a coherent product organization. The VP also builds and leads a team of product managers, reporting to the CPO and sitting on the senior leadership team to shape where Handshake AI goes next.
Highlights
- Set product strategy for Handshake AI across data modalities, operator and fellow platforms, and customer surfaces.
- Build, lead, and grow a product organization of PMs across modality-specific and platform pods.
- Hire and develop product management talent, setting the bar for craft and rigor across the team.
- Partner with Engineering, Design, Operations, and Sales/Customer leadership on cross-functional priorities.
- Make executive-level trade-off calls on which modalities and platform capabilities to prioritize.
- Define success metrics for the product org, including revenue enablement and time-to-launch for new modalities.
- Spend time directly with AI labs and enterprise customers to track how the human-data market is evolving.
- Scale the underlying product and operational platform to support new customer types without linear headcount growth.
- 12+ years in product management required, including 4+ years leading other PMs and managers.
- Reports to the CPO and sits on Handshake's senior leadership team.
VP of Product, Handshake AI Full Description
About Handshake
Handshake is the career network for the AI economy. 25 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.
About Handshake AI
Handshake AI is the fastest-growing, most critical, and most revenue-generating part of Handshake’s business. We power expert-labeled data collection at scale, matching domain experts with leading AI companies to train frontier models—and we’re already a top-three player in one of the fastest-growing sectors in AI: human data.
About the Role
We’re hiring a VP of Product to lead product for Handshake AI. You will be the product leader for one of the fastest-growing AI startups in the country, owning the strategy, roadmap, and execution that determines how fast and how well we scale. You’ll report into the CPO, sit on the senior team, and partner directly with Engineering, Design, Operations, and Sales/Customer leadership to shape where Handshake AI goes next.
What You’ll Own
- Product Strategy & Vision — Set the product strategy for Handshake AI across data modalities, the operator and fellow platforms, and customer-facing surfaces.
- Team Leadership — Build, lead, and grow a product organization of PMs across modalities and platform pods.
- Cross-Functional Partnership — Be the connective tissue between Engineering, Design, Operations, and GTM.
- Executive-Level Prioritization — Make and own the hard calls on which modalities and platform capabilities to invest in.
- Metrics & Accountability — Define what success looks like for the product org and hold it accountable.
- Customer & Market Fluency — Spend real time with AI labs and enterprise customers to understand how the market is evolving.
- Scaling the Platform — Ensure the underlying product and operational platform can flex to new customer types, data types, and volumes.
Desired Capabilities
- 12+ years in product management, including 4+ years as a senior product leader managing other PMs and managers, ideally at a high-growth startup.
- Experience owning product for a business growing quickly, with a demonstrated ability to build strategy and org structure that scale with revenue.
- Strong operational intuition—built or overseen platforms for internal users, operations teams, or complex two-sided marketplaces.
- Track record hiring and developing product talent, including PMs who own ambiguous, 0→1 problem spaces.
- Systems thinker who can hold a multi-modality, multi-stakeholder roadmap and make coherent trade-offs across it.
- Comfortable operating in high ambiguity.
- Data-informed but action-oriented.
- Excellent executive communication.
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