Senior Product Designer - Contract

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 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

We are looking for a Senior Product Designer for a 6 month contract. As a Senior Product Designer at Karat, you will regularly exercise your passion for designing elegant, inclusive, and goal-directed product experiences. As a pragmatic design thinker and maker, you will solve for the needs of the people that use our portfolio of products, making our interfaces come to life with intent, empathy, and delight.

• Execute with a high level of quality on large projects with a significant impact on company-level metrics. 
• Prototype smart and quickly with quality thinking.
• Reframe and refine goals in terms of human outcomes.
• Plan the involvement of others required for success, including creating effective meetings to drive progress. 
• Go beyond best practices with diverse methods and novel approaches tailored for business and user impact.
• Anticipate challenges and propose improvements to estimates, approaches, and deliverables.  
• Contribute to the relentless improvement of the discipline, helping to spread better tools, frameworks, and methods.

The experience you will bring

• 6+ years as a professional UX or product designer (undergrad and postgrad design degree is a +)
• Strong portfolio of excellent craft, broad ownership, and high impact across multiple shipped products.
• Knowledge of the latest design patterns, emerging technologies, and other developments in the field
• Confidence in applying best practices to common problems for solid solutions
• Decision-making that is consistently strong, clear, and human-centered 
• Ability to work towards business goals within technical constraints, recognizing that human needs must be balanced with other goals and priorities
• Strong empathy, optimism, and active listening when collaborating closely with other disciplines, partners, and users
• Attention to detail, curiosity and situation-driven ownership
• Ability to determine which feedback you receive is actionable and integrate it into your work

This is a contract position. Immigration sponsorship is not available.

Karat is a remote company with employees throughout the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom. For this position, we are only considering individuals based in the United States.

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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 [email protected].

Karat is an E-Verify company.