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# Principal Product Manager - Interview Innovation (United States) at Karat

- **Company:** Karat
- **Location:** United States
- **Compensation:** $168k–$228k
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-09-24
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-26
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/karat/jobs/8842934002

## Job description

We're [Karat](https://karat.com/), 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](https://karat.com/become-an-interview-engineer/).

## What you will do

As 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.

The experience you will bring

- 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](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1vsGicda668p80ivcfn6ZuyBStHt35LL9zxhgxeDNi4k/edit?usp=sharing) 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 2) $216,000—$227,540.70 USD

Base Salary (GeoLo 3) $192,000—$202,258.40 USD

Base Salary (GeoLo 4) $168,000—$176,976.10 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](https://karat.com/privacynotice/).

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.

## About Karat

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Karat provides expert-led technical interview services and workforce intelligence to help companies evaluate and elevate engineering talent in the Human + AI era.
- **Entity Type**: Private (funding details not disclosed in available sources)
- **Headquarters**: Not publicly available in provided sources
- **Founded**: 2014
- **Founders**: Mo Bhende and Jeffrey Spector

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Technical hiring and talent assessment, workforce intelligence
- **Target customers**: B2B, primarily enterprise (e.g., 7 of the 25 largest public companies, 4 of the 7 largest UK banks, 4 of the 4 largest payment companies)
- **Mission or purpose**: "Unlocking opportunity" by making hiring fair, predictive, and enjoyable; powering the AI economy through objective talent evaluation.

## Products & Services
- **Technical Interview Services**: Expert-led, live technical interviews conducted by Karat’s trained Interview Engineers, ensuring a consistent and rigorous evaluation bar across all candidates.
- **AI Evaluation Expertise**: Live AI-native scenarios and methodologies to assess the AI-enabled engineer without draining internal teams.
- **Workforce Transformation Intelligence**: A consistent evaluation system to optimize hiring, vendor selection, and team mix, providing data-backed decisions and global comparability.
- **Partner Talent**: Uplevel contractors and IT service providers by applying the same rigorous standards.
- **Brilliant Black Minds**: A flagship purpose program offering free mock technical interviews to software engineers from historically underrepresented backgrounds.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed in available sources
- **Key Metric**: Over 600,000 technical interviews conducted; 1 million hours reclaimed back to engineers
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Not explicitly listed in provided sources, but customers include major public companies, UK banks, and payment firms
- **Growth Signals**: Expansion into AI-native evaluation and workforce intelligence; global remote workforce (roles in US, India, Brazil, Greece, Singapore, Japan, Pakistan); continued hiring across engineering, product, and legal functions

## Competitive Advantages
- **Consistency & Objectivity**: Every candidate is assessed the same way by trained interviewers, making hiring data truly comparable.
- **Scale & Data**: 600,000+ interviews provide deep visibility into talent benchmarks across organizations.
- **AI-Ready Methodology**: Live AI-native scenarios that evaluate the AI-enabled engineer, a differentiator as companies transform for the Human + AI era.
- **Expert Interviewers**: A dedicated team of Interview Engineers frees internal engineers from hours of interviewing.

## Strategic Focus
- **Human + AI Era**: Helping CIOs and CTOs reimagine workforce capability in the age of AI, with a focus on AI readiness and workforce transformation intelligence.
- **Global Expansion**: Building a distributed team across time zones to support clients worldwide.
- **Diversity & Inclusion**: Continuing the Brilliant Black Minds program and embedding equitable practices into hiring.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Values include "Win as One Team, One Karat", "Embrace Real Talk", "Champion Brilliance", and "Support the Whole Person". Emphasis on collaboration, creativity, and inclusion.
- **Remote/Hybrid**: Many roles are remote (United States select states, India Bangalore, and contractor positions globally).
- **Impact**: Every position directly impacts the mission of unlocking opportunity; employees work at the intersection of people and technology.
- **Growth**: Opportunities to level up through a mission-driven environment with a focus on continuous learning and feedback.

## Sources
1. [Karat Homepage](https://karat.com/)
2. [Karat Careers Page](https://karat.com/careers/)
3. [Karat About Page](https://karat.com/about/)
4. [Karat Jobs on Greenhouse](http://job-boards.greenhouse.io/karat)
5. [Karat LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/karat)

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