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# Senior Director of Communications (United States) at Karat

- **Company:** Karat
- **Location:** United States - Select States
- **Compensation:** $156k–$250k
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-09-26
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-17
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/karat/jobs/8848623002

## 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 Communications team

Our Communications team is committed to sharpening how the market understands Karat; we build the channels, campaigns, and executive presence that position Karat as the definitive measure of talent.

## What you will do

As Senior Director, Communications at Karat, you will own the company's entire communications function, spanning external, internal, executive, and crisis communications, and serve as a trusted advisor to the CEO and leadership team.

- Set and evolve Karat's integrated communications strategy, advising the CEO and leadership team on narrative, messaging, timing, and stakeholder impact.
- Own media relations end-to-end, building proactive relationships with journalists and producers across business, technology, workplace, and trade press.
- Develop integrated campaigns with Product Marketing and Demand Generation that turn thought leadership, research, and product milestones into stories that break through.
- Build and run the CEO's platform across social, the company blog, earned media, and speaking opportunities, including the executive editorial calendar.
- Lead internal and executive communications for major company moments, keeping employee-facing and external narratives aligned.
- Guide crisis and issues communications, coordinating response across Legal, People, Sales, and Marketing as needed.
- Manage our PR agency and other communications partners to measurable outcomes, tracking KPIs across earned media, executive visibility, and employee understanding.

The experience you will bring

- 15+ years of progressive communications experience spanning media relations, corporate, executive, and internal/change communications
- Significant in-house experience at a high-growth technology or B2B company navigating rapid growth
- A track record of building journalist relationships and securing high-quality earned coverage
- Demonstrated success developing narratives and campaigns that connect strategy, product, and industry conversation
- Experience building executive platforms and coaching executives for media, speaking engagements, and high-stakes moments
- Exceptional writing and editorial judgment, from executive social content to all-hands remarks
- Experience guiding communications through periods of growth or high-stakes change, with discretion and sound judgment
- Experience managing PR agencies or communications partners to measurable outcomes
- Fluency in how AI is reshaping hiring, talent assessment, and workforce planning, a plus

Curious what's driving this role right now? Read [Beyond the Job Description](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1fBwGfFRRkQ51tzU0I-npj13RsrKrb3WdligqmYpwQ7g/edit?tab=t.0).

This position is only available to candidates residing in the following U.S. states: CA, FL, IL, MA, MO, NY, OR, TX, and WA. While our team operates 100% remotely, we are currently limiting hiring to these specific locations. We will not consider applications from other states 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](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 1) $223,176—$250,000 USD

Base Salary (GeoLo 2) $200,858.40—$225,000 USD

Base Salary (GeoLo 3) $178,540.80—$200,000 USD

Base Salary (GeoLo 4) $156,223.20—$175,000 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](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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