Great interviews are engineered.  Come help Karat make every interview predictive, fair and enjoyable.

The status quo for technical interviewing doesn’t meet the needs of candidates or hiring companies. Haphazard interview experiences, subjective evaluations, and lack of capacity and expertise mean too many companies miss their hiring goals and miss out on great software engineers. At Karat, it's our mission to create better outcomes for companies and candidates by making every interview predictive, fair, and enjoyable.  

Karat conducts first-round technical interviews on behalf of companies including Indeed, Atlassian, Intuit, Peloton, The New York Times and Wayfair. We do this through a community of Interview Engineers who are equipped with Karat's interviewing platform, battle-tested questions, and data-informed best practices. 

The result is highly predictive and fair interviews at scale that candidates truly enjoy. Karat has amassed the largest and most robust dataset of structured interview intelligence to produce never-before-seen hiring analytics. 

As the world continues to transition to virtual work, and the fairness of hiring practices in the tech industry come under greater scrutiny, Karat is uniquely positioned to be a valuable, strategic partner as companies transition to 100% remote hiring.

Founded in 2014, Karat is a privately held and venture-funded company based in Seattle.

Engineering at Karat

The Data Science Manager at Karat will work directly with engineers and leadership to extract key insights from our data and provide actionable recommendations.   As the leader of data-driven insights, you will drive innovation in our understanding across the business from the clients to the interviewers and candidates.  This role will lead and mentor members of the data analytics and data science teams. We're looking for an individual who is hungry to take ownership of new projects and initiatives, drive innovation in data analytics and data science and make a significant impact on the product and beyond.

You will have the opportunity to be the leader of a team working to innovate on top of our own as well as external data, carry out analysis, create insight and build models and products serving engineers, candidates, and internal teams. The ideal candidate for this role is fluent in data manipulation & statistics, comfortable with providing technical and product recommendations, working cross-functionally to support ideas from inception to launch, and capable of presenting and being a thought partner across the company. 

Core Responsibilities

• Lead data science and data engineering teams with strong technical and operational capabilities.
• Understand the Karat business and how it is evolving; translate business needs into data requirements and innovation opportunities.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define features and build powerful insights and easy-to-use products and customer-facing workflow tools.
• Lead our other data scientists and guide their research and development and model development to optimally benefit our business and enhance our product.
• As we collect richer data about the user interactions during each interview and client hiring decisions, you will work with our data to strive to increase the signal captured in every minute of our interviews and maximize the value provided to clients.
• Work to ensure that we are reducing the cognitive burden on all participants in the interview process while improving the quality and predictivity of our interview content and IP.
• Help build the solutions to scale our platform to serve a constantly increasing number of interviews with a flexible network.
• Analyze and model interview engineer performance, churn, learning, and more to inform the growth of our network.
• Nurture the data conversations and culture at Karat by educating technical and non-technical teammates about data literacy and usage.
• Establish processes - project management, code management, data quality - to help the team operate efficiently.
• Transform our data and data science model development and deployment architecture to better support rapid iteration and innovation, scale, high performance, and usability.
• Evangelize high quality software engineering methodologies towards developing data infrastructure and pipelines as well as data science best practices.
• Manage to SLA metrics for production data sets, including availability and data quality.
• Forge and foster strong partnerships with business stakeholders. 

About You

• 5+ years of relevant data science work experience and 2+years of hands-on management experience.
• Masters degree in mathematics, statistics, computer science, or a related field, or equivalent experience preferred.
• Proven track record in building and leading highly functional data science teams.
• Passionate about understanding data and its relevance to business decisions.
• Ability to operate in a fast-moving environment supporting a rapidly growing business.
• Proven track record of delivering insights and ML models that have provided value to the business.
• Intimate knowledge of state of the art data science, machine learning and artificial intelligence algorithms, approaches and methodologies.
• Experience with developing data architectures to support analytics & ML needs.
• Strong data analysis and scientific thinking skills, deep knowledge of statistics and rigorous analytical techniques.
• Skilled in SQL and at least one additional scripting language (e.g. Python, Java)
• Experience with modern batch and real-time data processing technologies.
• Consistently made culture choices that positively impact all of engineering.
• Demonstrated project management skills.
• Interviewing, teaching, and/or mentoring experience as it will help you relate to our mission and culture.
• Excellent English communication skills to collaborate with a service-oriented team.

Benefits of joining Karat:

While doing meaningful work is rewarding in itself, we also offer the following programs and benefits for all our full-time employees:

• Competitive salary and benefits
• Medical / dental / vision insurance 
• Flexible vacation and paid company holidays
• Paid parental leave 
• State-of-the-art equipment for your work station

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.