Seattle-based interviewing startup Karat has added two executives to its senior leadership team.
On Thursday, the company named Dan Haroldsen as vice president of marketing and Marcus Taylor as vice president of Americas enterprise sales. Both bring leadership from well-known tech companies to Karat's top ranks.
Taylor joined Karat at the start of last year as vice president of account management before being promoted to his new role in October. He spent 10 years at the job website Indeed before joining Karat, the company said. He started at Indeed as an account executive and rose to senior director of sales.
"I’m excited about this new role — cultivating relationships with enterprise companies that are committed to unlocking opportunity through their hiring processes,” Taylor said in a release.
This is Haroldsen's first role at Karat. He spent more than a year at the workforce development company Pluralsight before joining Karat. Earlier in his career, he spent more than six years at Microsoft and more than two years at Salesforce, according to his LinkedIn page.
“I love being a part of companies that are scaling and strengthening the marketing function to ensure they’re meeting customers where they are," Haroldsen said in a release.
Karat, founded in 2014, offers interviewers and technology to help clients screen engineering talent, with the goal of freeing up clients' own tech talent to focus on their core work. The company also provides analytics to guide hiring.
Karat raised a $110 million Series C round in October 2021 and hit a value of $1.1 billion. In April, Karat announced a partnership with tennis superstar Serena Williams to grow Karat's Brilliant Black Minds program, which offers free interview practice and feedback to current and aspiring Black software engineers in the U.S. Karat's clients include Ford, American Express and Intuit.
The company laid off 47 workers in January amid what it called a restructure of several teams.
Thursday's announcement follows previous leadership additions Karat made in December when it named Amy Sennett, previously with OpenText, as general counsel and Scott Bonneau, who also joined Karat from Indeed, as executive vice president of product and operations.
