Principal Product Manager - Interview Innovation
About the job
- Have 8 or more years of product management experience across B2B and B2C offerings, ideally with prior experience as a software developer.
- Be passionate about technology, actively code for fun using modern AI-assisted tools, and stay hands-on with the evolving developer experience.
- Have demonstrated experience defining, launching, selling, and scaling successful products with measurable business impact.
- Be comfortable discussing evaluation of core software development fundamentals with senior technical leaders, including CTOs and Vice Presidents of Engineering at large enterprises.
- Translate complex technical concepts for diverse stakeholders and lead cross-functional teams.
- Have a track record of executive presentations that communicate business value and product strategy to gain executive buy-in.
- Own the product vision, strategy, and execution for the technical assessment and interview-innovation side of the platform.
- Define the roadmap for AI-driven assessment and interview-innovation capabilities.
- Evaluate how emerging AI techniques can strengthen signals about candidates' technical capabilities.
- Help shape the company's position in the evolving technical assessment market.
- Prioritize features based on customer needs and business objectives.
- Partner with engineering, content, and user experience teams to ship high-quality, technically credible solutions.
- Analyze assessment data to improve accuracy.
- Design experiments to test new interview and assessment approaches.
- Use the candidate interview database to improve signals on performance.
- Track performance metrics and identify opportunities for improvement.
- Partner with Go-to-Market teams on expansion strategies.
- Build compelling business cases for new offerings.
About the company
Karat builds the Interviewing Cloud, an always-on, scalable platform that combines human interviewers with technology to run predictive, fair, and enjoyable technical interviews around the clock. It uses a global network of Interview Engineers, market intelligence, and purpose-built interviewing infrastructure to expand the candidate pipeline, reduce pedigree bias, and improve access for underrepresented candidates. Competitively, Karat differentiates itself with a scalable, 24/7 Interviewing Cloud powered by its network and data-driven insights, aiming to provide consistent interview quality across customers. The company’s goal is to help enterprises increase hiring capacity, free up developers to focus on coding, and raise overall engineering quality so they can innovate and grow.
Company Size
201-500
Company Stage
Series C
Total Funding
$169.1M
Headquarters
Seattle, Washington
Founded
2014
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Simplify's Take
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