Handshake salary data
Handshake publishes pay ranges on 101 of its open roles. These are the company's own published figures, not estimates or crowd-sourced guesses.
Last checked 02 October 2026
$198k
Median midpoint
$80k
Lowest published
$400k
Highest published
101
Roles with pay
Pay by role at Handshake
| Role | Openings | From | To |
|---|---|---|---|
| Software Engineer | 18 | $135k | $300k |
| Manager | 12 | $105k | $275k |
| Machine Learning Engineer | 8 | $151k | $350k |
| Engineer | 7 | $155k | $300k |
| Product Designer | 5 | $170k | $250k |
| Project & Program Manager | 4 | $108k | $215k |
| Customer Success Manager | 4 | $140k | $210k |
| Finance | 3 | $128k | $250k |
| Account Executive | 3 | $175k | $187k |
| Marketing | 3 | $174k | $255k |
| Product Manager | 2 | $180k | $220k |
| Engineering Manager | 2 | $240k | $280k |
| Data Scientist | 2 | $135k | $205k |
| Legal | 2 | $276k | $345k |
| Director & Head of | 2 | $340k | $400k |
| Operations | 2 | $92k | $190k |
| Analyst | 2 | $80k | $100k |
| Sales Development Rep | 2 | $88k | $115k |
| Marketing Manager | 2 | $100k | $190k |
Where this comes from. Every figure is taken from Handshake's own job board and recorded each day. When a range changes, we keep both the old number and the new one — which is how you can see pay moving rather than just where it stands today. Figures above cover annual salaries only; 18 further roles are quoted at an hourly or monthly rate are excluded so they don't distort the ranges.
Roles with published pay
| Role | Location | Team | Salary |
|---|---|---|---|
| Senior Partner Insights Manager - EDU new | Remote (USA) | Education | $144k – $180k |
| Data Scientist, Handshake AI new | San Francisco, CA | Engineering | $135k – $180k |
| Member of Technical Staff, Evals | San Francisco, CA | HAI Research | $200k – $350k |
| Senior Data Scientist, Product Analytics | San Francisco, CA | Engineering | $175k – $205k |
| Senior Data Engineer | San Francisco, CA | Engineering | $166k – $207k |
| Enterprise Account Manager | San Francisco, CA | Employer Revenue | $179k – $224k |
| Member of Technical Staff, AI Engineering | San Francisco, CA | HAI Research | $200k – $350k |
| Senior Software Engineer, Coding | San Francisco, CA | Engineering | $208k – $260k |
| Director of Internal Communications | San Francisco, CA | Corporate Communications | $174k – $255k |
| Mid-Market Customer Success Manager | New York, NY | Employer Revenue | $140k – $160k |
| Senior Product Marketing Manager, Handshake AI | San Francisco, CA | Marketing | $152k – $190k |
| Staff Product Designer, Handshake AI | San Francisco, CA | Design | $225k – $250k |
| Operations Associate | New York, NY | General & Administrative | $92k – $115k |
| Operations Program Manager | San Francisco, CA | General & Administrative | $112k – $140k |
| SMB Account Manager | San Francisco, CA | Employer Revenue | $118k – $148k |
| Member of Technical Staff, Post-Training | San Francisco, CA | HAI Research | $200k – $350k |
| Business Development Representative, Government | Remote (USA) | Employer Revenue | $88k – $115k |
| Senior Software Engineer, Backend Platform | San Francisco, CA | Engineering | $208k – $260k |
| Staff Product Designer, Autonomous Recruiting | San Francisco, CA | Design | $225k – $250k |
| Senior Forward Deployed Engineer, Enterprise AI | San Francisco, CA | Engineering | $220k – $300k |
| Strategic Projects Associate, Safety | Seattle, WA | HAI Delivery Ops | $120k – $120k |
| Strategic Projects Lead, Safety | New York, NY | HAI Delivery Ops | $160k – $160k |
| VP of Product, Handshake AI | San Francisco, CA | Product | $340k – $380k |
| Senior Recruiter | Seattle, WA | General & Administrative | $150k – $175k |
| Senior Director - AI Commercial Counsel | San Francisco, CA | General & Administrative | $276k – $345k |
| Senior Software Engineer, Consumer Experience | San Francisco, CA | Engineering | $225k – $250k |
| Staff Product Designer, Student Experience | San Francisco, CA | Design | $225k – $250k |
| Senior Product Designer II | San Francisco, CA | Design | $170k – $215k |
| Manager, Scaled Customer Success | New York, NY | Employer Revenue | $168k – $210k |
| Forward Deployed Engineer, Enterprise AI | San Francisco, CA | Engineering | $155k – $170k |
| Senior Software Engineer, Frontend Platform | San Francisco, CA | Engineering | $208k – $260k |
| Sales Development Representative | San Francisco, CA | Employer Revenue | $90k – $100k |
| Strategic Customer Success Manager, Federal | New York, NY | Employer Revenue | $168k – $210k |
| Senior Cloud Engineer, Agentic Infrastructure | San Francisco, CA | Engineering | $176k – $220k |
| Program Manager | San Francisco, CA | Employer Revenue | $108k – $160k |
| Mid-Market Account Manager | San Francisco, CA | Employer Revenue | $136k – $170k |
| IT Support Analyst | San Francisco, CA | Engineering | $80k – $100k |
| Staff Product Designer, Growth | San Francisco, CA | Design | $225k – $250k |
| Enterprise Customer Success Manager | San Francisco, CA | Employer Revenue | $140k – $175k |
| Senior Engagement Manager | San Francisco, CA | HAI Delivery Ops | $275k – $275k |
| GTM Engineer | San Francisco, CA | Employer Revenue | $156k – $195k |
| Senior Software Engineer, LLM Platform | San Francisco, CA | Engineering | $176k – $220k |
| Senior Software Engineer, Operator Tooling | San Francisco, CA | Engineering | $225k – $250k |
| Senior Frontend Engineer, Enterprise AI | San Francisco, CA | Engineering | $205k – $300k |
| Strategic Projects Associate | San Francisco, CA | HAI Delivery Ops | $120k – $120k |
| Strategic Projects Lead | San Francisco, CA | HAI Delivery Ops | $160k – $160k |
| Senior Applied AI Engineer, Enterprise AI | San Francisco, CA | Engineering | $220k – $300k |
| Mid-Market Account Executive II | San Francisco, CA | Employer Revenue | $175k – $187k |
| Strategic Projects Lead, Coding/RLE | San Francisco, CA | HAI Delivery Ops | $172k – $204k |
| Senior Software Engineer, Enterprise AI | San Francisco, CA | Engineering | $220k – $300k |
| Mid-Market Account Executive II | New York, NY | Employer Revenue | $175k – $187k |
| Staff Software Engineer, Consumer Experience | San Francisco, CA | Engineering | $265k – $295k |
| Manager, Strategic Projects | San Francisco, CA | HAI Delivery Ops | $160k – $210k |
| Engagement Manager | San Francisco, CA | HAI Delivery Ops | $225k – $225k |
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