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Handshake is hiring a Senior Business Operations Manager, focused on Product User growth, to partner with our Product teams on our mission to help GenZ navigate their careers. Our business goal: to 10x consumer engagement and expand our audience to all young professionals. We need your analytical rigor, deep love of consumer social products, and thoughtful understanding of user psychology to hit short- and long-term goals.
Today, Handshake is the #1 place college students find internships and jobs, uniquely positioned at the intersection of students, employers, and universities. We have a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to build a new social network that leverages our scale and deep engagement.
Business Operations is focused on linking the company’s strategic plans, roadmaps and objectives across revenue, product, and user engagement and tying those together with the company’s financial objectives.
This role will partner daily with our product and RD teams, supporting the planning, measurement, and decision-making cycles around strategic priorities to land the impact. You will own our consumer engagement northstar metrics (MAU, DAU etc), analyze major engagement drivers, and help inform our short- and long-term roadmaps. You will be a voice in every sprint, business review, and strategy meeting. You will meet regularly with our Chief Product Officer, CFO and our CEO. Your work will be used by individual engineers and by Handshake’s leadership team and board of directors.
Our ideal candidate is highly familiar with marketplaces and/or consumer social products, with a keen interest in user content flywheels and engagement growth strategies. They should be curious about what drives engagement and bring the requisite technical chops to mine our data for answers. This person will bring both structure and expertise to nascent and ambiguous product decisions in user engagement, helping the team make informed decisions with a bold yet data-driven approach.
Specifically, candidates should have proven experience in:
**Note this role is based out of San Francisco, CA and required 3 days a week in office (Monday, Wednesday, Thursday)
For cash compensation, we set standard ranges for all U.S.-based roles based on function, level, and geographic location, benchmarked against similar stage growth companies. In order to be compliant with local legislation, as well as to provide greater transparency to candidates, we share salary ranges on all job postings regardless of desired hiring location. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors, including geographic location as well as candidate experience and expertise, and may vary from the amounts listed above.
Handshake is the #1 place to launch a career with no connections, experience, or luck required. The platform connects up-and-coming talent with 750,000+ employers - from Fortune 500 companies like Google, Nike, and Target to thousands of public school districts, healthcare systems, and nonprofits. In 2022 we announced our $200M Series F funding round. This Series F fundraise and valuation of $3.5B will fuel Handshake’s next phase of growth and propel our mission to help more people start, restart, and jumpstart their careers.
When it comes to our workforce strategy, we’ve thought deeply about how work-life should look at Handshake. With our hybrid-work model, employees benefit from collaboration and shared team experiences three days per week in our vibrant offices, and enjoy the flexibility of remote work two days per week. Handshake is headquartered in San Francisco, with offices in New York, London, and Berlin.
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