Senior Partner Insights Manager - EDU

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

The Senior Partner Insights Manager - EDU helps EDU Partnerships turn data into better decisions, stronger partner relationships, and improved student outcomes. This role sits at the intersection of analytics, partner strategy, and data product development.

You will independently lead analytics projects from problem definition through delivery, build trusted reporting and insights products, and partner with EDU Success, Sales, Product, Data, Engineering, Marketing, Finance, and Support. You will bring rigor to ambiguous questions, make complex information easy to understand, and help partners and internal teams act on what the data is telling us.

This is a strong fit for an analytical operator who is comfortable working directly with stakeholders, has sound judgment about data quality and methodology, and wants to create leverage beyond one-off reporting requests. You will have meaningful ownership and influence while working closely with leaders and cross-functional partners to shape priorities.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

• Own & Lead Strategy:

• Own high-impact analytics and reporting initiatives for EDU Partnerships, from identifying the business question and defining success measures through analysis, delivery, enablement, and iteration.

• Lead project planning and stakeholder communication for analytics programs, balancing impact, effort, urgency, and long-term maintainability.

• Build & Scale Data Products:

• Build and evolve internal and partner-facing data products, dashboards, reports, and narratives that help teams understand partner health, business performance, student engagement, risks, and opportunities.

• Develop scalable sources of truth and self-service resources that reduce recurring manual work and help EDU teams answer common questions with confidence.

• Analyze & Deliver Insights:

• Deliver direct-to-partner insights, including business reviews, partner reporting, benchmarking, and other analyses that demonstrate Handshake’s impact and support partner decision-making.

• Translate ambiguous business questions into clear analytical approaches, metrics, definitions, and recommendations; identify limitations in the data and communicate them clearly.

• Use SQL and modern data and BI tools to investigate questions, validate results, develop reusable reporting, and improve the accessibility and trustworthiness of insights.

• Partner & Collaborate Cross-Functionally:

• Partner with Product and R&D on Handshake’s embedded analytics experience, incorporating feedback from EDU Success, Support, and partners into reporting priorities and user experiences.

• Work cross-functionally to align on definitions, resolve data issues, identify dependencies, and improve the processes behind reporting and partner analytics.

• Communicate & Enable:

• Present findings and recommendations to audiences ranging from individual contributors and partner-facing teams to seni

Responsibilities

• Own high-impact analytics and reporting initiatives for EDU Partnerships, from identifying the business question and defining success measures through analysis, delivery, enablement, and iteration.
• Lead project planning and stakeholder communication for analytics programs, balancing impact, effort, urgency, and long-term maintainability.
• Build and evolve internal and partner-facing data products, dashboards, reports, and narratives that help teams understand partner health, business performance, student engagement, risks, and opportunities.
• Develop scalable sources of truth and self-service resources that reduce recurring manual work and help EDU teams answer common questions with confidence.
• Deliver direct-to-partner insights, including business reviews, partner reporting, benchmarking, and other analyses that demonstrate Handshake's impact and support partner decision-making.
• Translate ambiguous business questions into clear analytical approaches, metrics, definitions, and recommendations; identify limitations in the data and communicate them clearly.
• Use SQL and modern data and BI tools to investigate questions, validate results, develop reusable reporting, and improve the accessibility and trustworthiness of insights.
• Partner with Product and R&D on Handshake's embedded analytics experience, incorporating feedback from EDU Success, Support, and partners into reporting priorities and user experiences.
• Work cross-functionally to align on definitions, resolve data issues, identify dependencies, and improve the processes behind reporting and partner analytics.
• Present findings and recommendations to audiences ranging from individual contributors and partner-facing teams to seni