Karat is transforming organizations around the world. We provide a powerful system for technical leaders at companies like PayPal, Atlassian, and Citi who want to take control of how they hire top engineers, elevate their teams and contractors, and stay ahead. At the core of Karat’s system are live, expert-led interviews, analytics designed to give leaders maximum visibility, and the most robust interview performance dataset in the world.
Our Product team is committed to driving forward Karat’s mission to make interviews predictive, fair, and enjoyable. We are focused on providing deeper value to engineering and talent leaders, hiring managers, recruiters, candidates, and Interview Engineers.
What you will doAs Principal Product Manager, you will own the product vision, strategy, and execution for the technical assessment and interview-innovation side of our platform. You'll leverage deep user empathy and product thinking to build experiences that evolve alongside rapid AI advancements in software development, collaborating across engineering, content, design, and go-to-market teams to deliver high-impact solutions that transform how companies evaluate technical talent.
- Product Strategy & Innovation: Define the roadmap for our AI-driven assessment and interview-innovation capabilities; evaluate how emerging AI techniques can strengthen our signal on a candidate's technical capabilities; help shape Karat's point of view in the evolving technical assessment market.
- Product Development & Execution: Prioritize features based on customer needs and business objectives; partner with engineering, content, and UX to ship high-quality, technically credible solutions.
- Analytics & Insights: Analyze assessment data to improve accuracy; design experiments to test new interview and assessment approaches; use our database of hundreds of thousands of candidate interviews to sharpen our signal on performance.
- Market & Customer Focus: Track performance metrics and identify improvement opportunities; partner with Go-to-Market teams on expansion strategies; build compelling business cases for new offerings.
- 8+ years of product management experience across B2B and B2C offerings, ideally with prior experience as a software developer
- Genuinely passionate about technology (you actively code for fun using modern, AI-assisted tools and stay hands-on with the evolving developer experience firsthand)
- Demonstrated experience defining, launching, selling, and scaling successful products with measurable business impact
- Comfortable holding your own in conversations with senior, highly technical leaders (CTOs, VPs of Engineering) at large enterprises about evaluating core software development fundamentals
- Excellent communication skills; able to translate complex technical concepts for diverse stakeholders and lead cross-functional teams
- Track record of executive presentations: communicating business value and product strategy to gain executive buy-in
This position is only available to candidates residing in the following U.S. states: FL, IL, MA, MO, OR, TX, and WA. While our team operates 100% remotely, we are currently limiting hiring to these specific locations. Applications from other states will not be considered at this time.
Immigration sponsorship is not available.Compensation Varies by Geographic Location
At Karat, salary ranges for each U.S.-based position are determined by the employee's work location. We structure our compensation into geographic tiers based on market data and regional economic factors.
Please refer to our geographic classification document to view which tier applies to your location. If your area isn't included in our classification system, please connect with your Recruiter for specific details. These geographic classifications may be adjusted periodically.
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Statement of InclusivityIn 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].
Skills Required
- 8+ years of product management experience across B2B and B2C offerings
- Experience defining, launching, selling, and scaling successful products with measurable business impact
- Ability to engage senior technical leaders, including CTOs and VPs of Engineering, on software development fundamentals
- Excellent communication skills and ability to translate complex technical concepts for diverse stakeholders
- Experience leading cross-functional teams
- Track record of executive presentations and gaining executive buy-in for business value and product strategy
- Prior experience as a software developer
- Hands-on coding experience using modern, AI-assisted tools
- Residence in Florida, Illinois, Massachusetts, Missouri, Oregon, Texas, or Washington
What We Do
The status quo for technical interviewing doesn’t meet the needs of candidates or hiring companies. Haphazard interview experiences, subjective evaluations, and lack of capacity and expertise mean too many companies miss their hiring goals and miss out on great software engineers. At Karat, it's our mission to create better outcomes for companies and candidates by making every interview predictive, fair, and enjoyable. Karat conducts first-round technical interviews on behalf of companies including Indeed, Atlassian, Intuit, Peloton, The New York Times and Wayfair. We do this through a community of Interview Engineers who are equipped with Karat's interviewing platform, battle-tested questions, and data-informed best practices. The result is highly predictive and fair interviews at scale that candidates truly enjoy. Karat has amassed the largest and most robust dataset of structured interview intelligence to produce never-before-seen hiring analytics. As the world continues to transition to virtual work, and the fairness of hiring practices in the tech industry come under greater scrutiny, Karat is uniquely positioned to be a valuable, strategic partner as companies transition to 100% remote hiring.
Why Work With Us
Karat is dedicated to unlocking life changing opportunities to create fairness and equity through technology. Our human centered approach to redefining the technical interview has created an incredible mission driven culture.
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