Principal Product Designer

We're Karat, the leader in technical interviewing

Karat’s purpose is to Unlock Opportunity for engineers and companies alike, and our mission is to make every interview predictive, fair, and enjoyable. As the world’s technical hiring expert, we help companies hire smarter and grow faster, and create more opportunities for software engineers. From our industry-leading solutions to Karat’s Brilliant Black Minds program, the work we do here matters. We’re a passionate, smart, and committed team, and we want you to join our mission!

Come join our Product Design team

Our Design team is committed to creating industry-leading user experiences that help Karat deliver on its purpose of unlocking opportunity.

What you will do

As a Principal Product Designer at Karat, you will regularly exercise your passion for designing elegant, inclusive, and goal-oriented user-experiences. As a pragmatic design thinker, you will work both deeply and broadly across our service, facilitating ideation and employing design strategy. Partnering with analytics, engineering, and product, you will gain insights into user goals, needs, and pain points in order to best solve complex problems.

Karat’s HQ is based in Seattle, Washington, but we are open to remote candidates for this role (within the U.S.). Immigration sponsorship is available for this position.

• Partner cross-functionally with design, engineering, marketing, and product teams to explore, understand, and advocate for user needs.

• Lead cross-team conceptualization, solving sophisticated customer-centric problems at the intersection between business, content, design, and technology.

• Employ design strategy across a variety of service components, championing prioritization when novel and discrete opportunities present themselves.

• Unite brand and user experience across various customer touch points, while continuing to deliver upon and evangelize a culture of innovation specific to individual persona goals and needs.

• Lean heavily on formative prototyping to learn from customers, and establish a shared vision with partners and collaborators.

• Model excellence in product design; mentor fellow designers on projects.

• Participate in generative research to model design personas, leading to representative journey maps and scenarios of human context.

• Maintain, grow, and improve design libraries, patterns, and workflows across the organization.

The experience you bring

• 12+ years of experience in UI/UX, and visual design, with fluency in human-centered design best practices

• 8+ years of experience designing UI/UX for web-based applications

• Proven experience performing human-centered design research to understand users, their struggles, and goals

• Extensive knowledge of the latest design patterns, new technologies, and other developments in the field

• Well-versed storyteller with strong presentation skills (dedication to define and openly discuss the "why" behind your designs)

• Empathy, optimism, and active listening when collaborating with other teams and partners

• Experience with designing software (e.g. dashboards, web apps, downloadable software, operating systems, etc.)

• Strong attention to detail

• Ability to thrive in ambiguity; comfortable in a fast-paced, quick-change startup environment

• Portfolio link is highly recommended

Benefits of joining Karat

Karat strives to offer everything you need to best support you today, tomorrow, and beyond. We’re proud of our current offerings, and highlight some of our team’s favorites below. There are more, just feel free to ask!

Compensation / Time Off:

• 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 for 2022

Benefits / Wellness:

• 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

Learn more about us

Statement of Non-Discrimination:

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.