Lead Product Designer, Karat
$122.5-171k
Salary is dependent on location; + Stock options
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Interviewing Cloud to unlock opportunity
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Interviewing Cloud to unlock opportunity
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
$122.5-171k
Salary is dependent on location; + Stock options
More information about location
201-500 employees
Company mission
To make interviews fair, predictive, and enjoyable.
Role
Who you are
- 7+ years of professional experience as a Product Designer, with demonstrated progression in scope and impact, including a portfolio showcasing strategic thinking and design leadership
- Proven track record of driving major design initiatives that significantly impacted business outcomes, with experience establishing design processes or standards in growing organizations
- Familiarity/experience with leveraging AI, automation, and emerging technologies in design, including creating AI-driven features with awareness of ethical considerations
- Demonstrated ability to influence product strategy and business decisions through design expertise, including experience leading cross-functional teams and building consensus among diverse stakeholders
- Advanced experience in user research methodologies and strategic research planning, with proven ability to balance competing priorities and make strategic trade-offs
- Expert-level proficiency in design tools and systems with experience scaling design operations, plus a strong understanding of technical constraints and development processes
- Proven experience mentoring and developing design talent across multiple levels, with strong communication and presentation skills for senior leadership and executive teams
What the job involves
- As a Lead Product Designer at Karat, you'll drive major design initiatives that shape our product direction and user experience. You'll have significant cross-functional influence, setting standards and patterns that elevate our entire design practice
- Your strategic thinking will impact both immediate product decisions and long-term design vision
- Drive major design initiatives that span multiple product areas and significantly impact business outcomes, leading cross-functional teams through complex design challenges
- Lead and scale our design system, establishing governance, documentation, and adoption processes that ensure consistency and efficiency across all product touchpoints
- Partner with Product and Engineering leadership to integrate design thinking into organizational strategy and roadmap planning, influencing product decisions at the leadership level
- Plan and execute strategic user research that informs product direction and business strategy, using data and analytics to measure design impact on business metrics
- Mentor and develop designers across all levels while leading design critiques and establishing feedback cultures that elevate the entire team
- Lead cross-functional ideation sessions for complex problems, creating solutions at the intersection of design, business objectives, and technology that advance design-driven initiatives
Our take
Karat is among the leading innovators in the field of technical interviewing. As digital interviews become more commonplace, the company fills the need for an efficient and practical interview solution with its world-first Interviewing Cloud.
Karat was founded upon the core idea that the online interview process is the gateway towards solving economic disparity throughout America. Serving household names such as American Express and Ford, the company uses a global network of experienced engineers to deliver consistent interviews tailored to the needs of the client. Karat makes money via annual subscription fees, and by charging for a set amount of interviews.
Karat conducts thousands of interviews every month on behalf of enterprises and technology companies. To combat systemic barriers to entry for Black engineers in the US tech space, the company has launched Brilliant Black Minds, an initiative that aims to close the interview access gap, and that has received investment from Serena Williams.
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Insights
-15% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company benefits
- Highly competitive salary and stock options
- 401(k) with company match
- Generous paid PTO (see below) and Sick Leave (10 days per year)
- Flexible Time Off Policy for salaried positions
- Three weeks accrued per year for hourly positions
- Global Parental Leave (16 weeks paid with additional 8 weeks transition back to work in part-time capacity)
- 20 paid Company Holidays
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance via Cigna or Kaiser (for CA-based employees)
- 100% premium covered for employees
- 70% premium covered for dependents
- FSA, STD, LTD, Standard Life Insurance, and Optional Life Insurance
- Mental Wellness offerings such as Calm, Happify, Talkspace, Modern Health, and more
- $150 per month contribution to miscellaneous benefit/wellness of employee’s choice
Company HQ
University District, Seattle, WA
Leadership
Jeffrey Spector
(Co-Founder & President)Former Chief of Staff at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Previously Investment Analyst at BFK Asset Management and Vice President at Linktone Ltd. BA Economics from Duke University.
Mohit Bhende
(Co-Founder & CEO)Former Advisor at Affinity Inc and Senior Director at XBOX Microsoft. MBA from the University of Pennsylvania.
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