Senior Principal Product Manager, New Initiatives (United States)

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+ years of product management experience in B2B SaaS, with a demonstrated track record of taking products from 0 to 1 through launch, monetization, and scale; entrepreneurial mindset with the ability to build and iterate quickly without compromising quality