Principal Project Manager

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, 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 team of passionate, focused, human-centric team, and we want you to join us!
Come join our Interview Content team
Our Interview Content team is committed to ensuring Karat's interviews are the most predictive, fair, and enjoyable technical interviews available to software engineering candidates by developing, monitoring and managing our interview content library and interview guidelines.
What you will do
As a Principal Project Manager on the Content team at Karat, you will manage and update our extensive content library, and monitor the results of hundreds of thousands of interviews, to help Karat ensure the consistency, fairness and predictivity of all Karat interviewing content. This data will be used to make decisions about updates to our content and to our interview engineering guidelines. This role is something of a hybrid, primarily focused on project management (70%) with an element of longer-term program management (30%).

• Manage new content creation projects, including contracting and managing external Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) and managing all aspects of the content creation and content performance review process.
• Work closely with Content Leadership to own content production prioritization, ensuring it aligns with the business needs communicated by Executive Leadership.
• Partner with Product and Engineering to identify, specify, and prioritize content production tooling improvements.
• Partner closely with client-facing teams to ensure content aligns with client needs, is being deployed appropriately (particularly with new content formats and releases), and is being monitored appropriately for usage and alignment..
• Integrate with peer work streams in Product and Product Marketing to ensure content releases are appropriately tiered and that cross-team timelines align to business needs
• Act as a lead and role model for Content project and program management.
• Anticipate, analyze and mitigate risks to project deliveries, particularly with regard to costs and deadlines
• Create strategies to ensure on-time and on-budget deliveries, and to continually improve the content development process
• Contribute to production and maintenance budget conversations
• Co-execute the broader Content production roadmap
• Conduct content design workshops with external subject matter experts as part of conducting content design workshops.
• Manage content testing, including developing new metrics for identifying content health, appropriate levels of candidate differentiation, and desired levels of content inventory supply

As our team grows, this role is also expected to take on people leadership skills, leading small project teams.
The experience you will bring

• 7+ years of professional experience in an operations or project management role
• 5+ years of experience working with a cohort of external contractors to produce specified deliverables on schedule and on budget
• Strong data analysis skills and incredible attention to detail
• A passion for human-centered technology that empowers (not replaces) people
• Proven communication skills across technical and non-technical audiences
• Strong desire to work in a dynamic environment on an industry disrupting product

This is a salaried , full-time position. Immigration sponsorship is not available.
Karat's HQ is based in Seattle, Washington, but our core team is distributed throughout the United States, Canada, and United Kingdom.
Benefits of joining Karat
Karat strives to offer everything you need to best support you today, tomorrow, and beyond.
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 vacation 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 2023

Benefits / Wellness:

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance via United Healthcare 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
• Therapy and coaching for employees and dependents
• $150 per month reimbursement for miscellaneous benefits/wellness purchases

Learn more about us
Statement of Inclusivity:
Karat is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion, age, gender, marital/domestic partner status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability status, veteran status or other legally protected status. 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] .
Karat is an E-Verify company.
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:
$105,000 - $165,000 USD