Your impact

Handshake is looking for a Data Scientist, Product Analytics to help shape how we measure and grow the impact of our products across students, employers, and university partners. In this role, you’ll partner with product, engineering, and analytics stakeholders to deliver actionable insights and experimentation frameworks that guide key product and growth decisions. You’ll be embedded in our Data team and report to the Senior Manager of Data & Analytics.

Your role

• As a Data Scientist at Handshake, you will:

  • Collaborate with product managers and engineers to identify key metrics and drive analytics workstreams

  • Analyze user behavior to uncover trends, patterns, and opportunities for product improvement

  • Contribute to experiment design, implementation, and analysis to guide feature development

  • Build and maintain dashboards and reports to support ongoing tracking and decision-making

  • Help define and refine data models in partnership with Analytics Engineering

  • Translate complex data findings into clear, actionable insights for cross-functional stakeholders

Your experience

• 3+ years of professional data science experience

• Experience using data to support product development, including working with cross-functional teams

• Proficiency in SQL and comfort working in Jupyter-style notebooks using Python or R

• Awareness with A/B testing and experimentation best practices

• Ability to conduct analysis across user cohorts, funnels, and time-series datasets

• Robust written and verbal communication skills, especially in summarizing insights for non-technical audiences

• Experience with BI tools such as Looker, Hex, or Mode

Bonus areas of expertise

• Exposure to product analytics in a multi-sided marketplace

• Knowledge with dbt or similar data modeling frameworks

• Prior experience contributing to data-informed product strategies

About us

Handshake is the career platform for Gen Z. With a community of over 17 million students, alumni, employers, and career educators, Handshake’s network is where career advice and discovery turn into first, second, and third jobs. Nearly 1 million companies use Handshake to build their future workforce—from Fortune 500 to federal agencies, school districts to startups, healthcare systems to small businesses. Handshake is built for where you’re going, not where you’ve been.

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 (unless noted in the specific job posting). Handshake is headquartered in San Francisco, with offices in New York, London, and Berlin.

What we offer

At Handshake, we'll give you the tools to feel healthy, happy and secure.

Benefits below apply to US employees in full-time positions.

💰 Equity and ownership in a fast-growing company.

🍼 16 Weeks of paid parental leave for birth giving parents & 10 weeks of paid parental leave for non-birth giving parents.

💝 Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision policies including LGTBQ+ Coverage. We also provide resources for Mental Health Assistance, Employee Assistance Programs and counseling support.

📚 Generous learning & development opportunities and an annual $2,000 stipend for you to grow your skills and career.

💰 Financial coaching through Origin to help you through your financial journey.

🛜 Monthly internet stipend and a brand new MacBook to allow you to do your best work.

🚃 Monthly commuter stipend for you to expense your travel to the office (for office-based employees).

🥗 Free lunch provided 3x a week across all offices.

🤝 Referral bonus to reward you when you bring great talent to Handshake.

🏦 401k Match: Handshake offers a dollar-for-dollar match on 1% of deferred salary, up to a maximum of $1,200 per year.

🏝 All full-time US-based Handshakers are eligible for our flexible time off policy to get out and see the world. In addition, we offer 13 standardized holidays, and 2 additional days of flexible holiday time off. Lastly, we have a Winter #ShakeBreak, a one-week period of Collective Time Off.

💻 Handshake offers $500 home office stipend for you to spend during your first 3 months to create a productive and comfortable workspace at home.

🍼 Family support: Parental leave coaching and support provided by Parentaly. We partner with Maven Clinic to provide a lifetime coverage up to $15K for expenses related to fertility and family forming!

💰 Lifestyle Savings Account: We offer you an annual stipend of $500 to use for purchases such as fitness classes, gym memberships, work-from-home setup, and more.

Looking for more? Explore our mission, values and comprehensive US benefits at joinhandshake.com/careers.

Handshake is committed to providing reasonable accommodations in our recruitment processes for candidates with disabilities, sincerely held religious beliefs or other reasons protected by applicable laws. If you need assistance or reasonable accommodation, please let your recruiter know during initial communications.