Handshake

Senior Marketing Manager - Fellows

Handshake · San Francisco, CA
San Francisco, CA $152K–$190K Posted 2026-10-09
Salary
$152K–$190K
Type
Full-time
Experience
5+ yr

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 1,600 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. We've 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 world's 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 Handshake AI

Human data is the core infrastructure to AI advancement. Frontier AI labs currently improve model capabilities with various data-intensive post-training techniques. We believe that data spend for AI training will increase by 3-5x in the next few years and continue for much longer as models take on new domains. Handshake AI supports all of the frontier AI labs, working on their most complex data at the largest scale.

ABOUT THE ROLE

Handshake is hiring a Senior Marketing Manager to build and grow our community of Fellows, the experts who power Handshake AI's data work. You will partner cross functionally to understand Fellows and what to build for them, how to message to them across channels, and design marketing launch motions around new products and programs.

  • Fellow Insights: Gather inbound feedback and community insights, track what drives engagement and retention, and translate them into recommendations on what to build for Fellows
  • Messaging & Content: Define the messaging and content hierarchy for Fellows (what to say, what not to say), and write content and email, including a monthly newsletter, in a voice Fellows trust
  • Product Launches & Previews: Plan and execute launch marketing for Fellows, including previewing upcoming features, events, promoting different Fellow programs
  • Fellow Stories: Partner with Community to capture, produce, and distribute Fellow stories, including video, to showcase Fellow success and build advocacy
  • Community & Crisis Communication: Partner on communication to Fellows and negative sentiment response when issues surface

YOU HAVE

  • Experience partnering with product teams by bringing insights and market data on what to build next for Fellows
  • Experience in consumer-facing or community-driven marketing
  • Experience engaging and growing an online community
  • Creative approach to designing programs that turn users into advocates
  • Consumer-facing writing and marketing instincts, including content and email
  • Sound judgment handling negative sentiment and crisis communications
  • Strong communication and collaboration skills across teams
  • Excitement for Handshake's mission and the AI economy

Bonus Points

  • Product marketing experience, including messaging and positioning
  • B2C or marketplace experience, such as social media, ecommerce, or community platforms like Reddit, Discord, or Facebook Groups, or gig, creator, or expert-network communities
  • Interest in AI and the people who train and evaluate it

WE OFFER

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 http://joinhandshake.com/careers.

$85K — 10th pctl $235K — 90th pctl
This role’s midpoint $171K vs. market median $150K for Marketing roles
+15%
above median
Based on 5,000+ Marketing roles with disclosed salary ranges tracked on NewJob.
Handshake

Handshake

HR Tech · Series E+ · San Francisco, USA

Stage & Valuation
Series E+ · $3.5B
Key Investors
Coatue, Spark Capital, Chan Zuckerberg Initiative
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