Principal Product Manager - Hiring Manager Experience (India)

Title: Principal Product Manager - Hiring Manager Experience (India) Location: Remote (India - Bangalore ONLY) Department: Product Management

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 Principal Product Manager, you will own the product vision, strategy, and execution for how hiring managers and their teams experience our platform — from onboarding through interview results and client-run assessments. You'll leverage deep user empathy and product thinking to build experiences that make it effortless for enterprise hiring teams to evaluate and act on candidate signal, collaborating across engineering, content, design, and go-to-market teams to deliver high-impact solutions.

This position requires a schedule that overlaps with U.S. business hours.

• Product Strategy & Innovation: Define the roadmap for the hiring-manager-facing product suite; identify where AI can make results and insights clearer and more actionable for hiring teams; shape Karat's strategy for serving enterprise hiring managers directly.
• Product Development & Execution: Prioritize features based on customer needs and business objectives; partner with engineering, content, and UX teams to deliver high-quality, enterprise-ready solutions.
• Analytics & Insights: Analyze usage and outcome data to improve the hiring-manager experience; design experiments to test new onboarding, preference, and results-delivery approaches.
• Market & Customer Focus: Track performance metrics and identify improvement opportunities; partner with Go-to-Market teams on expansion strategies; build compelling business cases for new offerings.

The experience you will bring

• 8+ years of product management experience across B2B and B2C offerings, ideally with prior experience as a software developer
• Genuine passion for and track record of building B2B SaaS applications; comfortable running customer discovery calls and QBRs and translating enterprise feedback directly into product decisions
• Demonstrated experience defining, launching, selling, and scaling successful products with measurable business impact
• Comfortable holding your own in client meetings with senior stakeholders at large enterprises, including technical hiring leaders
• Excellent communication skills; able to translate complex concepts for diverse stakeholders and lead cross-functional teams
• Track record of executive presentations: communicating business value and product strategy to gain executive buy-in

This position is only available to candidates residing in Bengaluru (formerly known as Bangalore). While our team operates 100% remotely, we are currently limiting hiring to this specific location. We will not consider applications from other cities in India at this time.

Applicants, please note: we will not consider submissions that are not 100% in English.

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Additional Information

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Statement of Inclusivity

In keeping with our beliefs and goals, no employee or applicant will face discrimination or harassment based on: race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion, age, gender, marital/domestic partner status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability status, or veteran status. Above and beyond discrimination and harassment based on “protected categories,” we also strive to prevent other subtler forms of inappropriate behavior (i.e., stereotyping) from ever gaining a foothold in our office. Whether blatant or hidden, barriers to success have no place at Karat.

We value a diverse workforce: people of color, womxn, and LGBTQIA+ individuals are strongly encouraged to apply.

If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know at accommodation@karat.com.