We're Karat, the leader in technical interviewing and pioneer of the Interviewing Cloud

Karat’s purpose is to unlock opportunity, and we built the world’s first Interviewing Cloud to conduct predictive, fair, and enjoyable technical interviews 24/7. Karat helps companies expand interviewing capacity, unlock developer time, and raise engineering quality so they can hire smarter and grow faster, and create more opportunities for software engineers. From our industry-leading solutions to Karat’s Brilliant Black Minds program, the work we do here matters. We’re a team of passionate, focused, human-centric team, and we want you to join us!

Come join our Technical Content team

Our Technical Development team is dedicated to the creation and testing of questions that are a part of the most predictive and fair technical interviews available to software engineering candidates.

What you will do

As Director of Interview R&D at Karat, you will drive innovations that improve our engineering interviews and assessments. Leading a team of Software Engineers focused on developing cutting edge technical interview modalities and questions, you will lead the research of new methods of assessment in engineering interviewing, and drive Karat’s model to be ever more predictive, fair, and enjoyable.

Karat’s HQ is based in Seattle, Washington, but we are open to remote candidates for this role (within the U.S.). Immigration sponsorship is available for this position.

• Work in partnership with Technical Content leadership to build and establish an effective interviewing lab prototype, exploring the latest scientific evidence in the field of assessment.
• Lead the research, prototyping, implementation, piloting, and launch of experimental interview formats and innovative types of content.
• Set the vision and direction for the Interview R&D team utilizing the latest research and innovative approaches in assessment of technical talent.
• Build a team with deep expertise in the body of research around engineering hiring, technical interviewing and assessment science.
• Manage a growing team of Software Engineers dedicated to driving the end-to-end process for prototyping new innovations across a variety of subject domains, partnering with clients to pilot these new ideas, and iterating on modules based on performance data and feedback from the broader Interview Content team.
• Work closely with the Director of Interview Content Production and Community Operations team to ensure effective R&D-to-production workflow and partnership, enabling research and development to translate seamlessly into implementation and scale.

The experience you will bring

• 10+ years of experience in software engineering
• Previous management experience leading a cross-functional technical team required
• Deep experience interviewing engineers or building interviewing and hiring programs
• Ability to collaborate and coordinate across a range of functions

Benefits of joining Karat

Karat strives to offer everything you need to best support you today, tomorrow, and beyond. We’re proud of our current offerings, and highlight some of our team’s favorites below. There are more, just feel free to ask!

Compensation / Time Off:

• Highly competitive salary and stock options
• 401(k) with company match
• Generous paid PTO (see below) and Sick Leave (10 days per year)
• Flexible Time Off Policy for salaried positions
• Three weeks accrued per year for hourly positions
• Global Parental Leave (16 weeks paid with additional 8 weeks transition back to work in part-time capacity)
• 20 paid Company Holidays for 2022

Benefits / Wellness:

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance via Cigna or Kaiser (for CA-based employees)
• 100% premium covered for employees
• 70% premium covered for dependents
• FSA, STD, LTD, Standard Life Insurance, and Optional Life Insurance
• Mental Wellness offerings such as Calm, Happify, Talkspace, Modern Health, and more
• $150 per month contribution to miscellaneous benefit/wellness of employee’s choice

Learn more about usStatement of Inclusivity:

In keeping with our beliefs and goals, no employee or applicant will face discrimination or harassment based on: race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion, age, gender, marital/domestic partner status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability status, or veteran status. Above and beyond discrimination and harassment based on “protected categories,” we also strive to prevent other subtler forms of inappropriate behavior (i.e., stereotyping) from ever gaining a foothold in our office. Whether blatant or hidden, barriers to success have no place at Karat.

We value a diverse workforce: people of color, womxn, and LGBTQIA+ individuals are strongly encouraged to apply.

If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know at [email protected].