Senior Manager, Mid Market Sales

About this role

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 THE ROLE Handshake is hiring a Senior Manager of Mid-Market Sales reporting to the VP of Mid-Market Sales on the Employer Team.

This individual will be responsible for managing a team of people responsible for introducing Handshake’s innovative platform to companies looking to strengthen their early talent strategies, enhance event attendance, improve candidate quality, and elevate brand presence. You’ll lead a sales team in executing aggressive outbound efforts, driving value-based story telling and sales strategies to increase engagement and pipeline.

This role requires a strong focus on outbound sales productivity, clear and compelling product demos, and leading the team to successfully close deals. This person will be expected to work 3 days out of our SF hub (M/W/Th) and remote the remainder of the time to help facilitate collaboration and get face time with the team. - Manage, coach and develop a growing team of Mid-Market Account Executives - Manage daily and weekly activities, pipelines, forecasts and closed deals to ensure above-quota results based on successful pipeline management - Coordinate and manage weekly one-on-one and team-wide pipeline reviews, meetings, and training sessions to ensure ongoing improvement and best practice sharing - Collaborate closely across the extended Handshake Employer Business to develop sales strategies and monitor, analyze and improve sales performance - Lead aligned SDRs and work with the marketing leadership team to increase lead flow and drive stronger pipeline conversion rates - Help reestablish optimal thresholds for Mid-Market, SMB and self-serve customer segmentation based on historical data and future business goals YOU HAVE MUST HAVES: - Manage, coach and develop a growing team of Mid-Market Account Executives - Manage daily and weekly activities, pipelines, forecasts and closed deals to ensure above-quota results based on successful pipeline management - Coordinate and manage weekly one-on-one and team-wide pipeline reviews, meetings, and training sessions to ensure ongoing improvement and best practice sharing - Collaborate closely across the extended Handshake Employer Business to develop sales strategies and monitor, analyze and improve sales performance - Lead aligned SDRs and work with the marketing leadership team to increase lead flow and drive stronger pipeline conversion rates - Help reestablish optimal thresholds for Mid-Market, SMB and self-serve customer segmentation based on historical data and future business goals BONUS POINTS: - Experience selling into HR/Talent departments - Experience selling into talent acquisition and L&D leaders - Experience leading both Account Executives and Account Managers - Experience in a startup environment WE OFFER Handshake delivers benefits that help you feel supported and thrive at work and in life.