Senior Principal Product Manager, New Initiatives United States

We're Karat , 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 .

What you will do

As Senior Principal Product Manager at Karat , you will own the strategy and outcomes for a major new product line that extends Karat 's proven interview infrastructure into new markets and use cases. Reporting to the VP of Product, you will serve as a strategic lead and key decision partner, defining vision, aligning senior stakeholders, and driving execution across engineering, data science, design, and go-to-market to build and scale a category-defining offering.

• Define and own the end-to-end product strategy for a new strategic initiative that leverages Karat 's core interview platform, proprietary dataset, and domain expertise to serve new buyer personas and unlock new revenue streams
• Lead the initiative from concept through launch and scale; identify market opportunities, validate demand, define the core value proposition, and ship an initial product that establishes a new category for Karat
• Partner closely with engineering, data science, and UX to deliver sophisticated, enterprise-grade experiences
• Drive alignment across multiple functions and senior leaders to secure resources, resolve trade-offs, and maintain velocity on a high-priority, high-ambiguity initiative
• Set prioritization direction across your domain and influence prioritization decisions across peer leaders and teams
• Serve as the product voice in executive customer conversations, translating complex capabilities into compelling business value for senior engineering and talent leaders at large enterprises
• Shape how Karat 's extensive interview performance dataset is leveraged to deliver differentiated value; design products that provide customers with actionable intelligence, benchmarking, and analytics that inform workforce strategy and drive measurable outcomes
• Establish the operational foundations for a new product line, including success metrics, feedback loops, and iteration cadences that enable rapid learning and durable, scalable cross-functional solutions

The experience you will bring

• 10+ year