Seattle-based interviewing startup Karat has hired two new senior leaders.
Earlier this month, Karat named Scott Bonneau, formerly an executive with the job website Indeed, as executive vice president of product and operations. Amy Sennett, formerly with the data and content company OpenText, is joining Karat as general counsel.
“Karat has such clear product-market fit, and I’m excited to work with the Karat team to continue building a sustainable, strategic organization that is ready for growth,” Sennett said in a release.
Sennett was most recently the general counsel of OpenText's security solutions business, according to Karat. Prior to OpenText, Sennett was the general counsel of the Boston-based Catalant Technologies, a platform to connect businesses with independent consultants and subject matter experts.
Bonneau, meanwhile, spent about five years at Indeed, according to Karat. His most recent role was vice president of talent attraction and data analytics at the company. Earlier in his career, he spent more than three years at Google as an engineering manager, his LinkedIn page shows.
“I was fortunate to work with Karat as a customer for five years at Indeed, so I have a deep understanding of how Karat can enable companies to scale their technical talent," Bonneau said in a release. "I’m very excited to work with the team and take Karat’s product offering to an even broader array of companies and geographies.”
Karat, founded in 2014, provides clients with interviewers and technology to screen engineering talent. The company also offers analytics to help guide hiring decisions. The aim is to free up clients' own engineers to focus on their core work rather than interviewing candidates. In addition to Indeed, Karat's clients include American Express and Ford.
Karat raised a $110 million Series C round in October 2021, putting the company's value at $1.1 billion. In April, Karat announced a partnership with tennis superstar Serena Williams to grow the company's Brilliant Black Minds program, which offers free job interview training and feedback to current and aspiring Black software engineers in the U.S. Karat co-founder and CEO Mohit Bhende at the time didn't say how much Williams invested in the program, but he said it was enough to open the program up after a small beta test with roughly 500 candidates.
