Senior Recruiter — Handshake

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 Recruiter to lead hiring efforts for strategic business and operational roles. You’ll partner closely with senior management to shape and scale critical functions that power Handshake AI’s next phase of growth.

This role requires a background in hiring strategy and business operations professionals, as well as the ability to translate evolving company needs into effective hiring strategies. You’ll be a trusted advisor to stakeholders across the business and a key contributor to building high-performing, mission-aligned teams.

This role requires working five days in-office at our Seattle office location.

• Strategic Talent Partner: Partner with executives and hiring managers to understand org design needs, influence headcount planning, and advise on the best hiring strategies for operations and G&A roles.
• Full-Cycle Ownership: Lead the end-to-end recruitment process—from sourcing and screening through interviews, offer negotiation, and close.
• Pipeline Development: Build candidate pools for hard-to-fill key roles. Search for possible hires in different locations. Connect with those not currently job hunting and keep in touch with them regularly.
• Market Intelligence: Provide insights on talent trends, compensation benchmarks, and competitive dynamics to inform hiring decisions and set expectations.
• Operational Excellence: Drive continuous improvement in recruiting processes, leveraging data to optimize performance and deliver against key metrics.
• Extraordinary Candidate Experience: Ensure every candidate has a high-quality, values-aligned experience that reflects our brand and culture.

Your Experience

• Recruiting Expertise: 5+ years of full-cycle recruiting experience, with a solid track record hiring for strategic business and operations functions (e.g., BizOps, Corporate Strategy, Finance, Legal, Marketing).
• Strategic Acumen: Deep knowledge of business operations and organizational strategy; able to contextualize roles within the broader business and influence how they’re scoped.
• Executive Partnership: Skilled at building trust and credibility with senior leaders; capable of pushing back thoughtfully and guiding decisions with data and insights.
• Sourcing Mastery: Experience sourcing for niche and high-impact roles using tools like LinkedIn Recruiter, Boolean search, CRM, and industry networks.
• Process-Oriented: Comfortable working in structured recruiting environments and optimizing processes in an ATS (e.g., Ashby, Greenhouse).
• Analytical Approach: Data-driven mindset with the ability to track, report, and iterate on recruiting performance and hiring funnel metrics.
• Great Communicator: Robust written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to craft compelling outreach and articulate value propositions.

Perks

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, wellness stipend

📚 Growth: 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.