Principal Product Manager, AI Products

Employment Type: [Not Specified] Location Type: Remote (U.S. States: CA, CT, Washington, D.C., FL, GA, IL, KS, MA, MD, MO, NC, NV, OR, PA, RI, SC, TX, VA, and WA) Salary: [Not Specified]

Company Overview

We're Karat, the world's largest interviewing company. Karat is the gold standard in technical talent measurement, empowering organizations to evaluate, benchmark, and elevate the quality of their engineering teams. Trusted by global leaders such as PayPal, Atlassian, and Citi, Karat’s innovative assessments, live expert-led technical interviews, and unmatched talent insights help companies hire top talent and drive engineering excellence.

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.

Position Overview

As Principal Product Manager for AI Products, you will lead the reinvention of technical interviewing in an AI-transformed world, owning the product vision, strategy, and execution for our next-generation interview platform. Working directly with the VP of Product, you'll leverage deep user empathy and product thinking to create experiences that evolve alongside rapid AI advancements in software development, while collaborating across engineering, content, design, and go-to-market teams to deliver high-impact solutions that transform how companies evaluate talent.

Responsibilities

• Product Strategy & Innovation:
  • Define the roadmap for our AI product suite.
  • Evaluate how we should leverage AI to provide a stronger signal and measure of a candidate’s technical capabilities.
  • Collaborate with leadership to shape Karat's strategy in the evolving technical assessment market.
• Product Development & Execution:
  • Lead development of new innovative interview products.
  • Prioritize features based on customer needs and business objectives.
  • Partner with engineering, content, and UX teams to deliver high-quality solutions.
• Analytics & Insights:
  • Analyze assessment data to improve accuracy.
  • Design experiments to evaluate different approaches.
  • Leverage our database of hundreds of thousands of candidates to enhance our signal on candidate performance.
• Market & Customer Focus:
  • Monitor performance metrics and identify improvement opportunities.
  • Partner with Go-to-Market teams on expansion strategies.
  • Develop compelling business cases for new AI-enabled offerings.
• Cross-Functional Leadership:
  • Collaborate with content teams on formats for complex technical roles.
  • Ensure smooth operations for existing customers.
  • Evaluate AI susceptibility of current offerings and implement appropriate safeguards.

Requirements

• 8+ years of product management experience working on B2B and B2C offerings.
• Past, hands-on experience working as a Software Developer.
• Strong understanding of AI/ML concepts and data analysis methodologies.
• Demonstrated experience defining, launching, selling, and scaling successful products with proven business impact, ideally from the ground up.
• Ability to engage with senior, highly technical leaders at large enterprises on topics related to evaluating core software developer fundamentals.
• Excellent communication skills; able to explain complex technical concepts to diverse stakeholders and lead cross-functional teams.
• Successful experience in executive presentations, ability to communicate business value, as well as product features/benefits, and gain executive buy-in.

Location & Eligibility

• This position is only available to candidates residing in the following U.S. states: CA, CT, Washington, D.C., FL, GA, IL, KS, MA, MD, MO, NC, NV, OR, PA, RI, SC, TX, VA, 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.

Benefits

• All U.S.-based offers include a competitive salary in local currency and Karat-granted stock options.
• We’re proud of our additional offerings.

Application Instructions

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