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Salary: USD 140,000 - 220,000 / annual
Karat is the world's largest interviewing company, providing technical hiring solutions to organizations like PayPal, Atlassian, and Citi. The company combines live expert-led interviews, analytics, and the industry's most robust interview performance dataset to help leaders hire top engineers and build stronger teams.
As Senior Director of Communications, you will own Karat's entire communications function and serve as a trusted strategic advisor to the CEO and leadership team. This is a high-impact role spanning external, internal, executive, and crisis communications.
Key responsibilities:
- Set and evolve Karat's integrated communications strategy, advising the CEO and leadership team on narrative, messaging, timing, and stakeholder impact
- Own media relations end-to-end, building proactive relationships with journalists and producers across business, technology, workplace, and trade press
- Develop integrated campaigns with Product Marketing and Demand Generation that turn thought leadership, research, and product milestones into breakthrough stories
- Build and run the CEO's platform across social, the company blog, earned media, and speaking opportunities, including the executive editorial calendar
- Lead internal and executive communications for major company moments, keeping employee-facing and external narratives aligned
- Guide crisis and issues communications, coordinating response across Legal, People, Sales, and Marketing as needed
- Manage PR agencies and communications partners to measurable outcomes, tracking KPIs across earned media, executive visibility, and employee understanding
Requirements:
- 15+ years of progressive communications experience spanning media relations, corporate, executive, and internal/change communications
- Significant in-house experience at a high-growth technology or B2B company navigating rapid growth
- Track record of building journalist relationships and securing high-quality earned coverage
- Demonstrated success developing narratives and campaigns that connect strategy, product, and industry conversation
- Experience building executive platforms and coaching executives for media, speaking engagements, and high-stakes moments
- Exceptional writing and editorial judgment, from executive social content to all-hands remarks
- Experience guiding communications through periods of growth or high-stakes change, with discretion and sound judgment
- Experience managing PR agencies or communications partners to measurable outcomes
- Fluency in how AI is reshaping hiring, talent assessment, and workforce planning (a plus)
Note: Position available only to candidates in CA, FL, IL, MA, MO, NY, OR, TX, and WA. Immigration sponsorship is not available.
