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 expanding into AI research and development, building a world-class network of expert Fellows - PhDs, researchers, and subject matter specialists - who contribute to cutting-edge AI through specialized research, model evaluation, and domain-specific applications. Handshake is looking to bring on a Handshake AI Support Specialist to provide payments, contracts, and general support to our Handshake MOVE Fellows. If you are resourceful and attuned to detail, love digging into a complex and technical product, building strong relationships with customers and team members, and solving a wide variety of questions, bugs, and workflow needs - this is the role for you!
You will work closely with our Handshake AI Ops, Finance, Product, Engineering, Projects and Fellow Experience (FEXP) teams to provide efficient and effective support, and contribute to an overall seamless experience for Fellows. You will primarily focus on handling payment questions, disputes, and managing contracts to ensure our Fellows have a smooth experience. You will also assist with general Handshake AI support, help unblock our users, share trends and learnings with the Handshake AI Team, and continue to improve the customer experience and our team operations. As an advocate for our Fellows, you’ll improve the Handshake AI experience and make an impact on our mission to build the infrastructure for the next era of human-AI collaboration.
Exceptional team members may have the ability to grow their career into new roles across the Handshake AI Ops team.
This is what your day will consist of:
- 80%: resolving questions and disputes, removing or updating contracts reporting bugs, sharing feedback, and other general inquiries. You’ll typically handle up to 75-100 tickets per day.That said, this is an example and it varies a lot by the type of tickets and process at a given time.
- 10% on priority initiatives or improving business process
- 5%: attending team meetings (1-3 per week)
- 5%: completing administrative tasks (emails, checking daily announcements, training, etc.)
Tickets will involve highly technical troubleshooting and workflows, building and troubleshooting custom reports using Big Query, SQL, Google Sheets, and/or Looker, and making sure to provide tailored, personal responses while building relationships
Use app environments, troubleshooting tools, internal and external documentation, and team communication channels, to find the quality answer for a wide range of users
Maintain a standard level of excellence in regards to response times, resolution times, equal share of queue, and the quality of the customer support experience
Be both a support specialist and an experienced consultant for Fellows
Utilize internal tools to manage issues between Operations, Finance, Product, Engineering, Project, and Support teams
Analyze common issues that Fellows have and coordinate with our Product and Ops teams to ideate and implement solutions
Desired Capabilities
- 1 - 3 years of customer success experience, Sales Development Representative or similar experience
- BI tools: Experience with or strong aptitude to quickly learn Big Query, SQL, Google Sheets advanced formulas and analysis, and Looker to pull payment and project data and compare with our tracking systems
- Self-Starter: Excited to approach new challenges and have a high bar for personal excellence
- Technical Aptitude: Ability to learn technical tools and concepts quickly
- Resilience: Comfort with change and ambiguity. We’re a growing startup and always refining processes, tools, etc!
- Teamwork: Connects with teammates and actively builds a sense of community on the Handshake AI and Support teams. Collaborates with manager and colleagues and team on daily or weekly guidance on ticket workflows and prioritization.
- Communication: Excellent verbal and written communication skills with a clear ability to communicate complex topics with simple language.
- Results oriented and ownership: Ability to maintain or exceed ticket and quality goals. High level of self accountability and integrity for processes and metrics.
- Passion for the problem: Desire to help give people the chance to build the career they want, no matter where they're from or what school they attend
- EQ: A strong sense of empathy with users of our products and cross functional partners
- Critical Thinking: High attention to detail and ability to troubleshoot with limited information and a clear plan of action.
- Expertise and Curiosity: Retains knowledge, shows ability to partially solve issues independently, and asks questions to increase personal knowledge. Isn’t afraid to do independent research on third party tools and systems to find answers.
- Growth Mindset: Positive, eager to learn, utilizes resources, takes and gives feedback, connects with support team and key cross team stakeholders.
- Diversity and Inclusion: Eagerness to contribute to and help build a diverse and inclusive team and exhibit these values internally and externally with customers or users.
- Coverage: Can provide a regular schedule to provide consistent assistance to users. Based in the U.S. and is not a current student.
Extra Credit
- Big Query, SQL, Google Sheets/Excel, Deel, and/or Hubstaff experience
- ZenDesk experience
- AI/LLM usage and training Experience
- Programming, IT, data analysis or computer science courses, major or certifications
- FinTech customer service experience
- Previous experience working in an Enterprise SaaS Customer Support team at a fast-paced startup or hypergrowth tech company, or customer focused position involving technical knowledge of a company's products and services
- Relevant experience in cross - functional communication or close partnerships with various teams (Success, Sales, Product etc)
Career Growth
- We need someone to lead Fellow Experience in India who manages a bunch of people downstream directly reporting to the head of fellow experience in the US or,
- You can pass an internal trial to become an Strategic Project Associate (this would become easy because he would have a lot of context on human data by then)
Perks
- Food credit for every in person day
- Note: The role is a contractual full time role