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Handshake
About Handshake
Handshake sells employers access to its hiring network (25 million job seekers and 1,600+ university partners, by its employer page), and its Employer Revenue team holds most of the board's sales openings: strategic and mid-market account executives, enterprise and mid-market account managers, customer success managers and revenue operations. A newer Handshake AI motion hires data partnership reps in Nashville to license companies' proprietary data for frontier AI labs, and a San Francisco partnerships lead signs ATS integration deals. The roles sit in San Francisco and New York (hybrid), Nashville (on site) and one remote US strategic seat.
Typical pay, live
, SalesJobs.Now shows 11 open Handshake sales roles; the postings mostly run from $155k to $224k a year, with $166k in the middle.
Handshake sales openings
Board read 31 Oct 2026, 07:06 UTC- $147,200–$184,000/yr OTE
Senior Enterprise Customer Success Manager (shows the role here)
Customer success · New York, NY· 3d agoDetails
$118,000–$148,000/yr- $275,000–$300,000/yr
- $170,200–$212,750/yr
- $147,200–$184,000/yr OTE
Enterprise Account Manager (shows the role here)
Account management · San Francisco, CA· 1mo agoDetails
$179,200–$224,000/yr OTEMid-Market Customer Success Manager (shows the role here)
Customer success · New York, NY· 1mo agoDetails
$140,000–$160,000/yrManager, Scaled Customer Success (shows the role here)
Customer success · New York, NY· 1mo agoDetails
$168,000–$210,000/yr OTEMid-Market Account Manager (shows the role here)
Account management · San Francisco, CA· 2mo agoDetails
$136,000–$170,000/yr OTEEnterprise Customer Success Manager (shows the role here)
Customer success · San Francisco, CA· 3mo agoDetails
$140,000–$175,000/yr OTE- $175,000–$187,000/yr OTE
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Handshake as an employer
Career network that grew out of college recruiting and now also runs Handshake AI, a human data business serving AI labs. Posted pay: $155k–$224k/yr, midpoint $166k/yr.
Hiring now, with pay read from the salaries its own postings state11 sales openings at Handshake, as its own board showed them 31 Oct 2026.
Employment on Handshake's payroll with OTE-based pay on most selling and success roles, and an equity offer attached to nearly all of them.
San Francisco and New York (hybrid), Nashville (on site, data partnerships) and Remote (US) for a strategic new-business seat.
Pay at Handshake
From today's postings, 31 Oct 2026Midpoint $166k/yr across 11 openings with posted pay. Posted figures range from $118k/yr to $300k/yr.
Based on 11 distinct posted pay ranges, at this company, every range put on a yearly basis (a rate per hour × 2,080 hours).
| Sales role | Openings | Typical base | Top posted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Customer success | 4 | $146k–$200k/yr | $210k/yr |
| RevOps | 3 | $166k–$207k/yr | $213k/yr |
| Account management | 2 | $136k–$224k/yr2 salaries | $224k/yr |
| AE | 2 | $175k–$300k/yr2 salaries | $300k/yr |
Best-paid Handshake openings on the board
All 11 of its openings, sorted by pay- $275,000–$300,000/yr
Enterprise Account Manager (shows the role here)
Account management · San Francisco, CA· 1mo agoDetails
$179,200–$224,000/yr OTE- $170,200–$212,750/yr
Manager, Scaled Customer Success (shows the role here)
Customer success · New York, NY· 1mo agoDetails
$168,000–$210,000/yr OTE- $175,000–$187,000/yr OTE
Typical means from the 25th percentile of the midpoints of posted ranges (each counted as yearly pay, a rate per hour at 2,080 hours) to the 90th percentile of their top ends, the yardstick behind every list on this site. How we source and grade each salary figure.
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Is Handshake a good company to sell for?
Career network that grew out of college recruiting and now also runs Handshake AI, a human data business serving AI labs.
Is Handshake still an active employer?
Yes. Career network that grew out of college recruiting and now also runs Handshake AI, a human data business serving AI labs. How its pay is structured: Employment on Handshake's payroll with OTE-based pay on most selling and success roles, and an equity offer attached to nearly all of them.
What does a sales job at Handshake pay?
On Handshake's board today, the 11 openings that post pay put the typical band at $155k–$224k/yr and the midpoint at $166k/yr. Posted figures range from $118k/yr up to $300k/yr.
Is selling for Handshake worth it?
Posted pay at Handshake: $155k–$224k/yr, midpoint $166k/yr. Business software suits reps who like a repeatable motion, a clear quota and a defined patch.
How is Handshake's sales comp put together?
Employment on Handshake's payroll with OTE-based pay on most selling and success roles, and an equity offer attached to nearly all of them.
Where are Handshake's sales roles based?
San Francisco and New York (hybrid), Nashville (on site, data partnerships) and Remote (US) for a strategic new-business seat.
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