Chief of Staff, President & COO
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
THE ROLE
You will be the execution partner to Jonathan Stull, Handshake's President & COO. He has built Handshake hand in hand with CEO Garrett Lord for the past decade, and he partners with Garrett and the board on strategy and execution across the company.
He directly leads the Handshake Network and its global growth, plus the Careers revenue lines: Learning, Recruiting, and International. The Handshake network is compounding fast (new user acquisition up 200%, WAU up 70%), and we're investing hard to accelerate that growth by opening new international markets and broadening the product suite to 10x our TAM, with two major acquisitions closed in the past two months.
Every major question about AI and work runs through this business, and you will sit inside every major decision and be expected to move it forward. This seat is a proven accelerator at Handshake: the people who have held roles like this have gone on to run functions as VPs and GMs. If ...