Director of Artificial Intelligence

We're Karat , the leader in technical interviewing and pioneer of the Interviewing Cloud
Karat's purpose is to unlock opportunity, and we built the world's first Interviewing Cloud to conduct predictive, fair, and enjoyable technical interviews 24/7. Karat helps companies expand interviewing capacity, unlock developer time, and raise engineering quality so they can hire smarter and grow faster, while creating 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, focused, human-centric team, and we want you to join us!
Come join our AI team
Our AI team will work across product boundaries to rapidly prototype the AI products and features that will define the future of technical interviewing for Karat, create a competitive moat for our business, and allow our customers to source, hire, and retain the right talent with increased predictability, less bias, and previously unimaginable efficiency.
What you will do
As the Director of AI at Karat, you will drive innovation by extracting critical insights from our data and providing actionable recommendations for innovative products we can build into the Karat platform as we scale. Leading a small team of Engineers and Data Scientists, you will innovate on top of Karat's own and external data, leverage cutting-edge AI technology like LLMs, carryout complex analysis, build proofs-of-concept and prototypes, create insight, and build models and products that serve a variety of key end-users in the Interviewing Cloud space.
This role requires a proven track record of practical experience in developing and implementing data science and AI solutions, personally leading complex analytical projects, and getting involved in the technical aspects of data analysis.
Karat's HQ is based in Seattle, Washington, with employees distributed throughout the U.S, Canada, India, and United Kingdom. This position is only available in the United States, excluding Alaska and Hawaii. Immigration sponsorship is available for this position.

• Lead Karat's AI strategy and initiatives by creating a suite of AI product enhancements and further establishing Karat as a thought leader in AI for technical hiring.
• Work in close partnership with the broader data and engineering teams to increase the signal captured during technical interviews in order to maximize the product value provided to clients.
• Partner with company leadership to optimize and build ways in which we can collect richer data about user interactions.
• Prototype and build solutions to continuously scale our platform in order to serve a constantly increasing number of interviews with a flexible network.
• Work hands-on in coding, data preprocessing, feature engineering, model development, and exploratory data analysis.

The experience you will bring

• 5+ years of leading teams and relevant data science and AI work experience.
• Successful track record in leading teams that built AI and data science models and products.
• Strong data analysis and scientific thinking skills with deep knowledge of statistics and rigorous analytical techniques.
• A track record of personally designing and implementing advanced analytics models and solutions
• History delivering insights and launching ML models that have provided high-value to the business.
• Experience with machine learning, data science and modern data processing technologies.

Individual base pay depends on various factors, in addition to primary work location, such as complexity and responsibility of role, job duties/requirements, and relevant experience and skills. This role may be eligible for additional rewards, including commissions, bonuses, and equity.
The base salary pay range across the United States for this role is:
$118,440 - $247,000 USD
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 4% company match
• Generous time off policies (including FTO or PTO, Wellness Leave, and No Questions Asked Leave)
• Global Parental Leave (16 weeks paid with additional 8 weeks transition back to work in part-time capacity at full pay)
• 20 paid Company Holidays for 2023

Benefits / Wellness:

• Medical insurance via United Healthcare (as well as Kaiser for CA-based employees), dental and vision insurance via Guardian
  • 100% premium covered for employees
  • 70% premium covered for dependents
• FSA, STD, LTD, Standard Life Insurance, and Optional Life Insurance
• Mental Wellness offering with Spring Health (including 10 therapy and 10 coaching sessions per year at no cost to employees)
• Full membership and access to both Cleo Family and Cleo Adult
• OneMedical memberships covered for employees and dependents

Learn more about us
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 [email protected] .