Principal Product Manager

About Karat: Karat is the premier, internationally recognized technical assessment pioneer and interview engineering leader on an absolute mission to make hiring predictive, fair, and enjoyable for everyone involved. As the world’s largest interviewing company, Karat provides a powerful, highly scalable system for technical leaders at major organizations like PayPal, Atlassian, and Citi who want to take absolute control of how they hire top engineers and contractors. At the core of Karat’s ecosystem are live, expert-led interviews, deep analytics designed to maximize visibility for hiring managers, and the single most robust interview performance dataset in the world. Karat provides high-agency product leaders with an uncompromised remote canvas to leverage rapid AI advancements in software development, delivering high-impact solutions that fundamentally transform how the world’s best companies evaluate and hire technical talent.

Position Overview

We are seeking a highly analytical, systems-minded Principal Product Manager to join our core centralized Product team in a full-time remote capacity (available within select U.S. states). Operating as a high-leverage strategic architect and reporting directly to the VP of Product, you will step up to claim individual operational accountability for owning the product vision, strategy, and execution frameworks for our core interview platform. Shifting completely away from routine feature taking or passive backlog management, you will lead cross-functional innovation cycles, translating deep user empathy into predictive hiring solutions. This position requires an engineering-fluent product veteran with 8+ years of B2B/B2C history who navigates AI-assisted development tools fluidly, models candidate performance data smoothly natively using analytics, and bridges complex technical concepts flawlessly for executive enterprise clients.

Key Responsibilities

• Platform Product Vision and Strategy Formulation: Define, document, and execute the comprehensive roadmap for the Karat product suite, actively collaborating with senior leadership to shape Karat’s macro strategy within the evolving technical assessment market.
• AI-Driven Capabilities Integration: Evaluate and deploy strategies leveraging cutting-edge AI technologies to provide stronger candidate signals and more accurate measurements of a developer’s technical capabilities natively utilizing modern Project Management lifecycles.
• Cross-Functional Execution and Delivery: Partner peer-to-peer alongside core engineering, content, UX design, and data teams to prioritize features based strictly on customer needs and business objectives, ensuring the delivery of high-quality solutions.
• Data-Led Analytics and Insights Triage: Analyze vast troves of assessment data to improve platform accuracy, designing rigorous experiments to evaluate different technical approaches and leveraging a database of hundreds of thousands of candidate interactions.
• Market Expansion and GTM Synchronization: Monitor product performance metrics continuously to identify growth opportunities, partnering tightly with Go-to-Market (GTM) teams on expansion strategies and developing compelling business cases for new technical offerings.
• Executive-Level Stakeholder Advocacy: Engage directly with senior, highly technical leaders at massive global enterprises, articulating the nuances of evaluating core software developer fundamentals and gaining executive buy-in.

Required Skills & Qualifications

• 8+ years of verified professional history running advanced product management, technical platform strategy, developer tools scaling, or B2B/B2C enterprise software leadership.
• Deep, authoritative technical command of software development lifecycles, possessing a formal Computer Science (CS) degree or equivalent hands-on technical background.
• Active Technical Craftsmanship: Proven ability to actively code using AI-assisted tools, maintaining a firsthand, current understanding of the modern developer experience.
• Demonstrated capability defining, launching, selling, and scaling successful software products that have generated proven, measurable business impact.
• Expert-tier verbal and written communication mechanics in fluent English, enabling absolute confidence when translating complex technical assessment concepts to diverse stakeholders and leading cross-functional squads.
• Successful track record conducting high-stakes executive presentations, clearly conveying product features, benefits, and macro business value.
• Location Context and Compliance: Position open exclusively to qualified product leaders based permanently and resident within the following U.S. states: **CO, CT, Washington D.C., FL, GA, IL, KS, MA, MD, MO, NV, OR, PA, RI, SC, TX, VA, WA, and WI**. Applications outside these regions or requiring immigration sponsorship cannot be considered.

What We Offer

• Experience and Geo-Calibrated Salaried Blueprint: A highly competitive full-time base salary scale structured transparently into geographic tiers, ranging broadly from $163,012.50 – $225,324 USD per year (dependent on GeoLo 2, 3, or 4 classifications), calibrated to reward your technical PM authority.
• The exceptional professional canvas to directly direct, shape, and code-engineer the technical assessment platforms power-routing hiring decisions for some of the world’s most elite engineering organizations.
• Profound work-from-home remote parameters offering an elite distributed workplace arrangement, complete scheduling trust, and zero physical geographic office commuting friction across our approved U.S. state hubs.
• Direct operational exposure to a massive, proprietary dataset of candidate performances, utilizing AI to drive predictive, fair hiring mechanisms.
• A deeply inclusive corporate culture that strongly values diverse workforces, actively encouraging people of color, womxn, and LGBTQIA+ individuals to apply and shape the future of enterprise hiring.