We’re thrilled to announce Handshake’s $80M Series E funding round. From the start, we’ve made it our mission to break down barriers and create equitable access to great jobs. We’re expanding our mission to build a platform students love, that helps early talent of all backgrounds receive access to opportunities – no matter who they know or where they go to school.
Handshake is the largest early career network, helping millions of students from all backgrounds get hired and launch their careers with no connections, experience, or luck required. The Handshake community includes 18 million students and young alumni (9 million active students & alumni) from 1,400 educational institutions including four-year colleges, community colleges, boot camps, and 290+ minority-serving institutions. We connect up-and-coming talent across all 50 states with 600,000+ employers recruiting on Handshake - from every Fortune 500 company to thousands of small businesses, nonprofits, startups, and more. Handshake is headquartered in San Francisco with offices in Denver, New York, and London.
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.
Handshake is the number one site for college students to find a job. Today, the Handshake community includes 17 million students and young alumni at over 1,000 colleges and universities — including 120+ minority-serving institutions. We connect up-and-coming talent across all 50 states with nearly 500,000 employers recruiting on Handshake — from every Fortune 500 company to thousands of small businesses, nonprofits, startups, and more. Handshake is democratizing opportunity and ensuring college students have the support they need to find a great job and kick-off a meaningful career regardless of where they go to school, what they choose as a major, and who they know.
We welcome all people. We celebrate diversity of all kinds and are committed to creating an inclusive culture built on a foundation of respect for all individuals. We seek to hire, develop and retain talented people from all backgrounds. Individuals from non-traditional backgrounds, historically marginalized or underrepresented groups strongly encouraged to apply.
If you are not sure that you’re 100% qualified, but up for the challenge - we want you to apply.
Your Impact:
Handshake is hiring a Program Manager for our Insights team to drive the roadmap, delivery, and enablement of our internal tools across our Enterprise business initiatives across engineering. This individual will report to the Director of Enterprise Insights and work closely with our internal GTM stakeholders.
Your Role:
We’re excited for you to work on:
- Address business challenges by leveraging Handshake’s unique data to improve and create innovative internal/external tools
- Leverage SQL++ to extract necessary data and build out subsequent visualizations in Looker and internal front-end systems
- Conceptualize and drive initiatives that help our internal stakeholders make better decisions with data
- Create requirements and project plans for analytic programs, tools, or narratives and re-prioritize based on impact and effort to complete
- Analyze results to generate business insights
- Act as a customer-centric program manager, placing customer value at the center of all projects, analyses, and initiatives; Establish close relationships with sales teams to do this
- Build cross-functional consensus for operational improvements and partner effectively with other teams
- Partner with sales enablement for successful rollout of tools
- Develop and coordinate training for internal tools with stakeholders
- Defining and tracking reports, metrics, and dashboards to accurately provide insight into our impact to the business
Your Experience:
- 6+ years of experience managing executive stakeholders and strategic projects/programs.
- Proven track record in leading a team to ship features and products.
- Demonstrated experience implementing and championing Agile methodologies.
- Exceptionally organized and experienced in communicating across multiple teams and departments.
- Experience planning and leading strategic initiatives.
- Experience working with senior leadership.
- High-level thinker, but also detail-oriented when executing on projects.
- Strong analytical skills and the ability to drive metric and dashboard creation.
- Excellent written and verbal communicator.
Nice to haves but not required:
- SQL, Looker, Python
Benefits:
- Stock: Ownership in a fast-growing company.
- 401k: We care about your ability to save for your future.
- Family Focus: Parental leave and flexibility for families.
- Time Off: Flexible vacation policy to encourage people to rest and recharge.
- Healthcare: World-class medical, dental, and vision policies.
- Goodies: Whatever hardware and software you need to get the job done.
- Team Fun: Regularly scheduled events, movie nights, and book clubs.
- Learning: Learning & Development stipend for you to grow your skills and career.
- Great team: Working with driven, fun, and kind people who are committed to making a difference!
- ...And much more!
We value diversity of all kinds, and are committed to building a diverse and inclusive workplace where we learn from each other. We are an equal opportunity employer and welcome people of all different backgrounds, experiences, abilities and perspectives.
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What We Do
Handshake is the college career network of the future, built to transform the recruiting experience for college students, career centers and employers. Our mission is to democratize access to opportunity: to help every college student find the right job for them, no matter where they go to school, what they’re majoring in, or who they know.
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