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Karat

Tailored influencer credit cards using metrics

Senior Product Manager

Full-Time
No salary listed
Senior
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
RemoteMust reside in Bengaluru and work hours overlapping U.S. business hours.

About the job

Requirements
  • 5+ years of product management experience across B2B and B2C offerings, ideally with exposure to recruiting, HR technology, or matching or marketplace-style products.
  • A track record of building B2B software-as-a-service applications, including running customer discovery calls and quarterly business reviews and translating enterprise feedback into product decisions.
  • Experience designing analytics, dashboards, or workflow tools that measurably improved how a professional user performed their job.
  • Experience with greenfield, zero-to-one product problems.
  • Ability to participate effectively in client meetings with recruiting and talent acquisition leaders at large enterprises.
  • Ability to translate complex concepts for diverse stakeholders and lead cross-functional teams.
Responsibilities
  • Own the product vision, strategy, and execution for recruiter experience within the Karat Platform.
  • Define the roadmap for the recruiter-facing workflow and analytics experience.
  • Identify opportunities where better tooling, automation, and insight can save recruiters time and improve day-to-day decision-making.
  • Explore ways to surface and route strong candidates toward better-fit opportunities within a hiring pipeline and across the broader set of roles Karat helps fill.
  • Prioritize features based on customer needs and business objectives.
  • Partner with engineering, content, and user experience teams to deliver enterprise-ready solutions, including integrations with customers' existing recruiting systems.
  • Design and refine dashboards and reporting that recruiters use to manage their workload.
  • Analyze usage data to understand where recruiters get stuck or drop out of a workflow.
  • Run experiments to improve insight discovery, reduce manual effort, and improve match quality between candidates and opportunities.
  • Track performance metrics and identify improvement opportunities.
  • Partner with go-to-market teams on expansion strategies.
  • Build business cases for new offerings and new ways of connecting candidates to opportunities.
Desired Qualifications
  • Exposure to recruiting, HR technology, or matching or marketplace-style products.

About the company

Karat provides customized credit solutions for social media influencers, including tailored credit cards and instant credit advances. It evaluates creditworthiness using influencers’ social metrics—such as follower counts, engagement, and sponsorship income—rather than traditional credit scores. The company targets a niche market with team and advisors from platforms like Instagram, Goldman Sachs, Twitch, YouTube, and Patreon to apply industry-specific insights. Its goal is to give influencers reliable liquidity and financial flexibility to grow their businesses and manage cash flow.

Company Size

11-50

Company Stage

Debt Financing

Total Funding

$100.7M

Headquarters

San Francisco, California

Founded

2014

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What believers are saying

  • 2025 NextGen launched into AI hiring demand, directly matching enterprise recruiting budgets.
  • Karat’s 600,000-interview dataset strengthens defensibility as engineering teams redesign assessments around AI.
  • 2026 contract hiring shows sustained demand for flexible interview coverage across engineering roles.

What critics are saying

  • Atlassian, Duolingo, and PayPal can replace Karat with CoderPad or HireVue by 2027.
  • Contract Interview Engineer hiring through Q3 2026 signals service-heavy scaling and margin pressure.
  • Karat Financial’s creator-banking brand confuses employers, candidates, and investors, weakening positioning.

What makes Karat unique

  • Karat NextGen launched December 10, 2025, blending human interviewers with embedded AI.
  • Karat has run 600,000+ interviews, creating proprietary benchmarking data competitors cannot match.
  • Karat’s Interview Engineers standardize technical screens, reducing bias and review variance.

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Benefits

Generous time off

Drive impact

401k matching

Health + wellness

Flexible work environment

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The LA TechWatch startup daily funding report: 7/20/2023

Karat Financial, a finance and credit card platform for creators and influencers, has raised $40M in Series B funding led by SignalFire.

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Karat, a startup building financial tools for content creators, raises $70M | TechCrunch - DAILY INSIGHTS

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TechCrunch
Jul 19th, 2023
Karat, a startup building financial tools for content creators, raises $70M | TechCrunch

Karat Financial, a startup offering credit to creators, has raised $70 million in venture capital on the heels of a Visa partnership.