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Senior Principal Product Manager, New Initiatives (United States)

Karat’s purpose is to unlock opportunity, for both hiring companies and candidates.

Karat

Employee count: 201-500

Salary: 144k-230k USD

United States only

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We're Karat, the world's largest interviewing company.

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.

Come join our Product team

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 do

As Senior Principal Product Manager at Karat, you will own the strategy and outcomes for a major new product line that extends Karat's proven interview infrastructure into new markets and use cases. Reporting to the VP of Product, you will serve as a strategic lead and key decision partner, defining vision, aligning senior stakeholders, and driving execution across engineering, data science, design, and go-to-market to build and scale a category-defining offering.

  • Define and own the end-to-end product strategy for a new strategic initiative that leverages Karat's core interview platform, proprietary dataset, and domain expertise to serve new buyer personas and unlock new revenue streams
  • Lead the initiative from concept through launch and scale; identify market opportunities, validate demand, define the core value proposition, and ship an initial product that establishes a new category for Karat
  • Partner closely with engineering, data science, and UX to deliver sophisticated, enterprise-grade experiences
  • Drive alignment across multiple functions and senior leaders to secure resources, resolve trade-offs, and maintain velocity on a high-priority, high-ambiguity initiative
  • Set prioritization direction across your domain and influence prioritization decisions across peer leaders and teams
  • Serve as the product voice in executive customer conversations, translating complex capabilities into compelling business value for senior engineering and talent leaders at large enterprises
  • Shape how Karat's extensive interview performance dataset is leveraged to deliver differentiated value; design products that provide customers with actionable intelligence, benchmarking, and analytics that inform workforce strategy and drive measurable outcomes
  • Establish the operational foundations for a new product line, including success metrics, feedback loops, and iteration cadences that enable rapid learning and durable, scalable cross-functional solutions

The experience you will bring

  • 10+ years of product management experience in B2B SaaS, with a demonstrated track record of taking products from 0 to 1 through launch, monetization, and scale; entrepreneurial mindset with the ability to build and iterate quickly without compromising quality
  • Proven experience defining and leading product strategy for a major customer-facing product area or new line of business, including setting vision and roadmap with minimal oversight
  • Deep comfort operating through substantial ambiguity; you thrive when the strategy is not yet defined and can translate uncertainty into clear direction for teams
  • Demonstrated ability to influence and align senior leaders across engineering, data science, design, sales, and customer success as a strategic partner
  • Experience building products that serve enterprise buyers, ideally engineering leaders, with a strong understanding of how large organizations evaluate, adopt, and expand new solutions
  • Strong analytical foundation with experience leveraging data to inform product decisions; experience building customer-facing analytics, benchmarking, or data products is a strong plus
  • Ability to set longer-range prioritization aligned to company goals, reduce complexity, and consistently focus the most important work across competing demands
  • Strong curiosity about AI and its implications for how talent is evaluated and hired

This position is only available to candidates residing in the following U.S. states: CA, CO, CT, Washington, D.C., FL, GA, IL, KS, MA, MD, MO, NC, NV, NY, OR, PA, RI, SC, TX, VA, WA, and WI. 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.

U.S. 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.

Base Salary (GeoLo 1)
$206,000—$230,000 USD
Base Salary (GeoLo 2)
$185,400—$207,000 USD
Base Salary (GeoLo 3)
$164,800—$184,000 USD
Base Salary (GeoLo 4)
$144,200—$161,000 USD

Additional Information

By applying for a position, you consent to the processing of your personal data in accordance with Karat’s Employee and Contractor Privacy Notice found here.

Statement 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 accommodation@karat.com.

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Salary: 144k-230k USD

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About Karat

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Karat’s purpose is to unlock opportunity, for both hiring companies and candidates. Karat helps connect the best people to right organizations so together they can grow, thrive, and change the world.

We believe the interview status quo is deeply flawed, hindering the potential for individuals and organizations to truly thrive. Interviews are opportunities to change lives. But expert software engineers aren’t necessarily expert interviewers, and software engineering time is crucial for business growth. Most engineering leaders view interviews as a drain on company financials and team morale. Many organizations are unable to conduct the number of interviews with the quality and consistency required to hire great team members, creating an Interview Gap.

The Interview Gap forces shortcuts and limits access to interviews. Inconsistent interviews and restrictive screening processes inject bias and lock organizations out of robust, diverse talent pipelines, creating an Access Gap. These artificial barriers contribute to the growing inequality in the world by locking talented, diverse candidates out of life-changing jobs.

How we do it

We elevate people to do their best work. We operate as a deeply integrated, strategic partner for CTOs and CHROs, and we make technical interviewing a customer-centric experience for candidates. We measure ourselves by our clients’ success, and we never stop innovating.

What we offer

We pioneered the Interviewing Cloud, a human+tech solution for conducting interviews on behalf of companies worldwide, 24/7. Karat’s Interviewing Cloud delivers better results than code tests or traditional interviews, and unlocks opportunity for companies and candidates alike.

Our story

Mo Bhende and Jeffrey Spector connected on the shared commitment to unlocking opportunity in a world where access to career growth is often limited to where a person went to school, who their friends and family are, or their past work experience.

While leading global strategy within XBOX at Microsoft, Mo needed to hire 300 software developers as fast as he could. He learned quickly that the traditional approach to technical interviewing no longer worked. There had to be a better way.

Meanwhile, as Chief of Staff at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Jeffrey had been researching and addressing economic disparity. Through his work with job seekers, it became clear that the interviewing and hiring process often felt uncomfortable and unfair. He became focused on ways to reduce bias and create greater opportunities for job seekers.

The two friends realized they were thinking about different facets of the same fundamental problems: The interview is the gateway to economic prosperity for companies and individuals alike. It needs to be treated as a scientific discipline and a profession. Continuously optimized like other mission-critical processes. Through their own experiences and research, they came to recognize that improving the interviewing and hiring process for software engineers, in particular, would connect millions to opportunities and power economic growth. The technical interview itself must be re-engineered. In 2014, they came together to create Karat.

Today we’re recognized as the experts and the global leader in technical interviewing, conducting thousands of interviews each month on behalf of leading technology companies and enterprise engineering groups.

Employee benefits

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Disability insurance

Short-term and long-term disability insurance.

401k matching

Save for your retirement the smart and simple way.

Life insurance

We'll cover your life insurance, so you don't have to worry.

Generous vacation for hourly employees

Enjoy 18 company holidays, plus 3 weeks time off for hourly employees.

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201-500 employees

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2014

Chief executive officer

Mohit Bhende

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