Kato careers

Location: London, 3 days/week in office 

Reports to: VP Product 

Type: Senior IC

Start: ASAP 

Salary: £100-125k

About Kato

At Kato, we’re not just building software, we're redefining how commercial property works. Our platform powers the UK’s top real estate firms, helping them manage deals faster, smarter, and with total clarity. Backed by leading VCs and real estate experts, Kato is already used in 80% of the UK commercial real estate market and we’re just getting started.

We’re growing fast, building new product lines and unlocking new market segments. This is your opportunity to join at the ground floor of something truly transformative and in a team that values curiosity, creativity, and fast learning.

Our Products

Kato is three products that feed each other. Our CRM runs deal workflows for most of the UK's commercial agents, Marketplace is where requirements and availability meet, and Atlas turns the structured data generated by both into market intelligence. More usage creates more contributed data, which makes every product stronger - that loop is the strategy, and this role sits at the centre.

The Role

We're hiring a product lead to do two things: ship revenue-generating propositions this year, and lead discovery into a new growth area for the product beyond its current market.

Short term, you'll validate and ship a portfolio of near-term commercial opportunities. Longer term, you'll lead demand-side discovery for our core data product, opening up new buying centres and becoming the main growth lever beyond initial product-market fit.

This is a hands-on, revenue-accountable role. You'll be judged on outcomes shipped and revenue landed, not activity.

Our Product Culture

Product at Kato runs on writing and evidence: decisions get made from documents that survive one read, and good thinking beats seniority. We ship customer-visible outcomes and measure ourselves on what landed, not what's underway. AI is woven into how the team works day to day - it's how a small product group covers a big surface at pace. We'll be straight with you: our operating model is still being built, and this role helps set it - the principles, the rhythm, the decision rights. If you'd rather shape a system than inherit one, that's the job.

What you’ll do:

First 90 days Validate, size, and ready 2-3 propositions.

By end of year 1

• Ship validated propositions into market, contributing measurably to a defined revenue target
• Deliver against that revenue target in full
• Kick off demand-side discovery for our core data product: initial buying-centre research and proposition hypotheses
• Build a pipeline of validated hypotheses ready for year 2 revenue conversion, with a mapped buying-centre landscape (opportunity size, entry points, competitive position)
  

You'll thrive in this role if you are:

• AI-native, with AI built into how you work day to day, not bolted on
• Someone with a track record in fast-moving scaleups, comfortable in ambiguity and without heavy process
• Revenue-accountable by experience: you've owned a number and hit it, not just supported someone else's
• A 0-to-1 builder who created and validated new propositions, not only improved existing ones
• Commercially driven — you sit in on live deals, push for hypotheses in the moment, and ship fast tests rather than waiting for a perfect brief
• Data-literate: you use data as evidence, size opportunities quantitatively, and read dashboards fluently
• A decisive writer where your documents get decisions made in one read, no meeting required to interpret them
• High-agency and you set your own priorities and move without waiting for sign-off
• Intellectually honest. You know what you know, say when you don't, and calibrate confidence to evidence
• Someone who coaches as they go and you raise the bar for others through your own work, without needing a formal reporting line

Experience:

• 10+ years in product management or related role
• Experience working closely with revenue teams
• Experience owning revenue targets

This role isn't a fit if

• Your background is consumer product only
• You've worked delivery/execution roles without discovery or new-proposition ownership
• You've only worked in large, established organisations with no scaleup or early-stage exposure
• You can't commit to 3 days/week in our London office

Nice to have:

• Experience in proptech, commercial real estate, or agency-driven data workflows
• Data product experience
• Product marketing or positioning background

In-person and remote working balance

We embrace a hybrid work model - Kato team members come into the office 3 days a week. This approach allows us to collaborate in person, whilst ensuring enough time for focused work.

Kato Values

Growth Mindset

We ask ‘How can we get better?’, ‘How can I get better?’

We embrace challenges; we are excited for each and every next step in the Kato journey. We push ourselves and each other to grow, and only view failures as opportunities for learning and growth.

We learn from each other and encourage ongoing training and skillset development to stay ahead.

We ask ‘How can we get better?’

Win Every Day

What is your win for today? Every day is a chance to move the needle & celebrate together.

Build momentum, one day at a time.

We step up, take charge, and drive projects forward with dedication and commitment.

Celebrate every win, no matter how big or how small!

Empathy

We don’t just understand problems, we understand people. It is why we built Kato. We value diverse perspectives and listen to ideas across the business to foster a supportive environment.

We show kindness and support towards our colleagues and clients, building strong, collaborative relationships.

Keep it Simple

Our world isn’t getting simpler. Kato is getting bigger and developing more. But we strive for simplicity in processes we work from and our communications both internally and externally, ensuring efficiency and ease of understanding.

We prioritise essential tasks, eliminating unnecessary complexities to enhance productivity.

Benefits

• A competitive salary
• 25 days annual leave
• Extra “life” days; a duvet day, a life-event day, your birthday off, 2 days’ paternity
• Enhanced maternity and paternity leave policy
• Healthcare package (including Dental & Optical care)
• Training & support provided
• Enrolment onto our company pension plan
• Casual dress code
• Snazzy offices in Soho and Bracknell with games & refreshments
• Summer & Christmas parties, plus ad hoc social events and highly competitive office Bake Off

Location: London, 3 days/week in office ‍

Reports to: VP Product‍

Type: Senior IC‍

Start: ASAP

‍Salary: £85-105k

About Kato

At Kato, we're not just building software, we're redefining how commercial property works. Our platform powers the UK's top real estate firms, helping them manage deals faster, smarter, and with total clarity. Backed by leading VCs and real estate experts, Kato is already used in 80% of the UK commercial real estate market and we're just getting started.

We're growing fast, building new product lines and unlocking new market segments. This is your opportunity to join at the ground floor of something truly transformative and in a team that values curiosity, creativity, and fast learning.

Our Products

Kato is three products that feed each other. Our CRM runs deal workflows for most of the UK's commercial agents, Marketplace is where requirements and availability meet, and Atlas turns the structured data generated by both into market intelligence. More usage creates more contributed data, which makes every product stronger - that loop is the strategy, and this role sits at the joint: Marketplace is the growth surface that feeds both sides. The products are at kato.app; the loop is what you'd be growing.

The Role

We're hiring a growth product manager to lead two workstreams: 1) improve the onboarding experience, and 2) use Marketplace as our primary growth engine for both Kato Pro and Atlas.

Short term, you'll baseline the funnels, identify the top growth levers, and start shipping improvements. Longer term, you'll build a repeatable cross-product growth playbook that compounds our data flywheel as well as our commercial numbers.

This is a hands-on, impact-led role. You'll be judged on growth outcomes measured and shipped, not on activity.

Our Product Culture

Product at Kato runs on writing and evidence: decisions get made from documents that survive one read, and good thinking beats seniority. We ship customer-visible outcomes and measure ourselves on what landed, not what's underway. AI is woven into how the team works day to day - it's how a small product group covers a big surface at pace. We'll be straight with you: our operating model is still being built, and this role helps set it - the principles, the rhythm, the decision rights. If you'd rather shape a system than inherit one, that's the job.

What you’ll do:

First 90 days: Baseline the funnel, build out the analytics and identify cross-product growth levers with rough sizing.

By end of year 1:

• Ship measurable improvements to the Marketplace → Agency CRM conversion funnel
• Strengthen Marketplace → Atlas data contribution flow (structured first-party data lift)
• Ship measurable improvements to new-customer onboarding and activation
• Support Atlas regional rollout in priority regions with measurable Marketplace-driven data uplift
• Ship and measure 1-2 growth plays on Kato Pro surfaces
• Establish a repeatable cross-product growth playbook — documented, validated, reusable

You'll thrive in this role if you are:

• AI-native, with AI built into how you work day to day, not bolted on
• Someone with a track record in fast-moving scaleups, comfortable in ambiguity and without heavy process
• Growth-accountable by experience: you've moved funnel metrics that matter — trial-to-paid, activation, conversion, retention — and can talk to what you did to shift them
• Hypothesis-driven: you frame growth work as testable hypotheses, pick the fastest honest way to test each one, and know when the evidence is strong enough to act on
• Cross-product: you've operated across two or more products or surfaces at once, not just within a single product silo
• Commercially minded — you translate growth interventions into commercial outcomes and sit close to the revenue conversation, not adjacent to it
• Data-literate: you use data as evidence, size opportunities quantitatively, read dashboards fluently, and build your own analyses when needed
• A decisive writer where your documents get decisions made in one read, no meeting required to interpret them
• High-agency — you set your own priorities and move without waiting for sign-off
• Intellectually honest: you know what you know, say when you don't, and calibrate confidence to evidence
• Flywheel-first: you evaluate every growth idea against the data flywheel first, and will hold or reshape work that would deliver conversion at the expense of structured first-party data capture

Experience:

• 7+ years in product management or related role
• SaaS background

This role isn't a fit if:

• Your background is consumer product only with no B2B exposure
• You've never run growth or optimisation work; funnel, activation, retention, conversion
• You've only worked in large, established organisations with no scaleup or early-stage exposure
• You can't commit to 3 days/week in our London office

Nice to have:

• Experience in proptech, commercial real estate, or agency-driven data workflows
• Marketplace or two-sided-platform experience; supply/demand dynamics, network effects
• Product-led growth (PLG) experience

In-person and remote working balance

We embrace a hybrid work model - Kato team members come into the office 3 days a week. This approach allows us to collaborate in person, whilst ensuring enough time for focused work.

Kato Values

Growth Mindset

We ask ‘How can we get better?’, ‘How can I get better?’

We embrace challenges; we are excited for each and every next step in the Kato journey. We push ourselves and each other to grow, and only view failures as opportunities for learning and growth.

We learn from each other and encourage ongoing training and skillset development to stay ahead.

We ask ‘How can we get better?’

Win Every Day

What is your win for today? Every day is a chance to move the needle & celebrate together.

Build momentum, one day at a time.

We step up, take charge, and drive projects forward with dedication and commitment.

Celebrate every win, no matter how big or how small!

Empathy

We don’t just understand problems, we understand people. It is why we built Kato. We value diverse perspectives and listen to ideas across the business to foster a supportive environment.

We show kindness and support towards our colleagues and clients, building strong, collaborative relationships.

Keep it Simple

Our world isn’t getting simpler. Kato is getting bigger and developing more. But we strive for simplicity in processes we work from and our communications both internally and externally, ensuring efficiency and ease of understanding.

We prioritise essential tasks, eliminating unnecessary complexities to enhance productivity.

Benefits

• A competitive salary
• 25 days annual leave
• Extra “life” days; a duvet day, a life-event day, your birthday off, 2 days’ pawternity
• Enhanced maternity and paternity leave policy
• Healthcare package (including Dental & Optical care)
• Training & support provided
• Enrolment onto our company pension plan
• Casual dress code
• Snazzy offices in Soho and Bracknell with games & refreshments
• Summer & Christmas parties, plus ad hoc social events and highly competitive office Bake Off

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Location: London, 1 day/week in office 

Start: ASAP 

Salary: £80-95k

Who are we? 

Kato is a fast-growing PropTech company, backed by top-tier VCs, investors, and industry experts. Our mission is to revolutionise commercial property through our all-in-one online platform and extensive industry data. We’re just getting started and are seeking dynamic, confident individuals to join our journey and help shape the future of commercial property.

Role overview

As Security Lead you will join as Kato’s first dedicated security hire, owning security across our product and corporate estate. You'll bring a balance of hands-on technical capability, experience applying security best practices in product-led scale-ups, and the pragmatism to build the right-sized solutions our stage demands. You'll design and lead on security initiatives with the ambition and potential to grow a team around you as Kato scales.

Responsibilities & expectations 

• Responsible for performance of security health indicators.
• Expected to execute our business aligned security strategy.
• Responsible for embedding security throughout the SDLC - from threat modelling and design review contributions to applying security tooling to CI/CD pipelines.
• Responsible for our protective and detective controls across endpoint, identity, network and data security, collaborating closely with Data, Infrastructure and People teams.
• Responsible for risk-based vulnerability management - prioritising and driving remediation with the engineering team.
• Expected to coach across departments on security - from pairing with engineers on secure development best practices to evangelising security awareness across the business.
• Expected to execute on our ISO 27001 plan - scoping, controls, evidence and auditor liaison - owning a successful certification outcome.
• Expected to automate security workflows and compliance evidence wherever possible, assessing GRC platform requirements to support this.
• Responsible for leading and continuously improving our security incident response process.
• Expected to embrace AI assistance throughout your workflow, staying current with developments and experimenting with new technologies as they become available.

Experience & skills

We’re committed to building a diverse team with a variety of backgrounds and experiences. The following skills and experiences will help you succeed in this role:

• You have worked in a SaaS start up or scale up environment before and are used to identifying and removing ambiguity.
• You are able to balance competing priorities and manage expectations of your work.
• You can work under pressure and multi-task alongside managing expectations of your work.
• You are an effective communicator and pro-actively share your knowledge and skills.

Qualities & traits

We want to ensure a great fit for both you and us, so we look for a few key qualities in all our team members:

• Excited for each step of the journey you are about to embark on
• Up for the challenge of a startup environment which is on a growth trajectory
• Strong work ethic and the ability to lead and work as part of a team
• Adaptable to new and different challenges and ways of working
• Pro-active, keen to take ownership of your work and responsibilities
• Bring a positive attitude and show empathy to your colleagues and customers
• Can operate in an incomplete environment, addressing tooling gaps as you go
• Tech-forward; your instinct is to use technology to solve problems wherever you see them
• Keep it simple; right sizing your solutions to fit the business context

Compensation & benefits

We’re asking a lot of you, so it’s only fair that we give something back:

• A competitive salary and bonus
• Employee share option scheme
• 25 days annual leave plus extra “life” days; a duvet day, a life-event day, your birthday off
• Enhanced maternity and paternity leave policy
• Healthcare package (including Dental & Optical care)
• Training & support provided
• Enrolment in our company pension plan
• Casual dress code
• Snazzy offices with free snacks and drinks
• Summer & Christmas parties, plus ad hoc social events
• Discounts at local businesses in Soho

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Location: London, 1 day/week in office 

Start: ASAP 

Salary: £100-120k

Who are we? 

Kato is a fast-growing PropTech company, backed by top-tier VCs, investors, and industry experts. Our mission is to revolutionise commercial property through our all-in-one online platform and extensive industry data. We’re just getting started and are seeking dynamic, confident individuals to join our journey and help shape the future of commercial property.

Role overview

As Head of Engineering you will lead the engineering practice for 10 front end, back end and full-stack Software Engineers. You’ll bring a balance of strong hands on technical capability, excellent people leadership skills and deep experience in ways of working within exceptional engineering teams. You’ll continuously raise the bar for engineering culture at Kato and bring your team along with you.

Responsibilities & expectations 

• Responsible for the Engineering team’s business aligned strategy and performance against health indicators (including Cycle Time, Deployment Frequency, Change Failure Rate).
• Responsible for the Engineering team’s delivery, in partnership with Product, and quality.
• Responsible for the Engineering team’s operating model; standards, processes, ways of working.
• Responsible for close collaboration with the Product team as well as the Kato Senior Leadership Team (of which you will be a member).
• Responsible for managing stakeholder expectations of sustainable delivery without losing ambition for what we aim to achieve.
• Expected to role model product-engineering behaviours; understanding your customer, knowing when something is good enough and demonstrating a value & evidence based mindset.
• Expected to embrace AI assistance throughout you and the team's workflow, staying current with developments and experimenting with new technologies as they become available.
• Responsible for line management of up to 8 direct reports.

Experience & skills

We’re committed to building a diverse team with a variety of backgrounds and experiences. The following skills and experiences will help you succeed in this role:

• You have worked in a product led business where value is more important than output.
• You have worked on a B2B product / service before, ideally delivered via SaaS model.
• You have worked in a start up or scale up environment before and are used to identifying and removing ambiguity.
• You can work under pressure and multi-task alongside managing expectations of your work.
• You are an effective communicator and pro-actively share your knowledge and skills.

Qualities & traits

We want to ensure a great fit for both you and us, so we look for a few key qualities in all our team members:

• Excited for each step of the journey you are about to embark on
• Up for the challenge of a startup environment which is on a growth trajectory
• Strong work ethic and the ability to lead and work as part of a team
• Adaptable to new and different challenges and ways of working
• Pro-active, keen to take ownership of your work and responsibilities
• Bring a positive attitude and show empathy to your colleagues and customers
• A problem solver with a knack of picking things up and running with them
• Tech-forward; your instinct is to use technology to solve problems wherever you see them
• Keep it simple; right sizing your solutions to fit the business context

Compensation & benefits

We’re asking a lot of you, so it’s only fair that we give something back:

• A competitive salary and bonus
• Employee share option scheme
• 25 days annual leave plus extra “life” days; a duvet day, a life-event day, your birthday off
• Enhanced maternity and paternity leave policy
• Healthcare package (including Dental & Optical care)
• Training & support provided
• Enrolment in our company pension plan
• Casual dress code
• Snazzy offices with free snacks and drinks
• Summer & Christmas parties, plus ad hoc social events
• Discounts at local businesses in Soho

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Location: London, 1 day/week in office 

Start: ASAP 

Salary: £70-85k

Who are we? 

Kato is a fast-growing PropTech company, backed by top-tier VCs, investors, and industry experts. Our mission is to revolutionise commercial property through our all-in-one online platform and extensive industry data. We’re just getting started and are seeking dynamic, confident individuals to join our journey and help shape the future of commercial property.

Role overview

As Senior Analytics Engineer working in the Data Platform team, you will own the analytics engineering discipline at Kato, shaping the modelling layer that turns our extensive industry data into trusted, self-serve analytics for the whole business. You'll bring strong hands-on technical capability, experience modelling complex domains, and the people skills to successfully educate and promote analytics across the business. You'll continuously raise the bar for analytics practice at Kato, with the scope to shape the discipline as our data function scales.

Responsibilities & expectations 

• Expected to raise the bar for data analytics at Kato - setting the standards we build to, and making our data accessible to everyone in the business.
• Expected to translate key business questions into durable, self-serve data assets rather than one-off answers.
• Expected to enable the definition and consistency of core business metrics.
• Responsible for data governance across the modelling layer; quality controls, testing, monitoring, lineage and documentation.
• Responsible for the reliable operation of the transformation layer - troubleshooting failures and reducing their recurrence.
• Responsible for the architecture and workflow of the data modelling layer.
• Responsible for the data contracts either side of the modelling layer; stable interfaces for downstream consumers, managed change from upstream sources.
• Expected to apply software engineering practice to analytics code; version control, automated testing and continuous integration as a default rather than an aspiration.
• Expected to embrace AI assistance throughout your workflow, staying current with developments and experimenting with new technologies as they become available.

Experience & skills

We’re committed to building a diverse team with a variety of backgrounds and experiences. The following skills and experiences will help you succeed in this role:

• You have worked in a SaaS start up or scale up environment before and are used to identifying and removing ambiguity.
• You have designed, built and run dbt architecture in production, with CI/CD.
• You have worked with Databricks (preferred) or a comparable cloud data platform.
• You have enabled self-serve analytics with BI tools such as QuickSight, Tableau or Power BI.
• You can work under pressure and multi-task alongside managing expectations of your work.
• You are an effective communicator and pro-actively share your knowledge and skills.

Qualities & traits

We want to ensure a great fit for both you and us, so we look for a few key qualities in all our team members:

• Excited for each step of the journey you are about to embark on
• Up for the challenge of a startup environment which is on a growth trajectory
• Strong work ethic and the ability to work as part of a team
• Adaptable to new and different challenges and ways of working
• Pro-active, keen to take ownership of your work and responsibilities
• Bring a positive attitude and show empathy to your colleagues and customers
• Tech-forward; your instinct is to use technology to solve problems wherever you see them
• Keep it simple; right sizing your solutions to fit the business context

Compensation & benefits

We’re asking a lot of you, so it’s only fair that we give something back:

• A competitive salary and bonus
• Employee share option scheme
• 25 days annual leave plus extra “life” days; a duvet day, a life-event day, your birthday off
• Enhanced maternity and paternity leave policy
• Healthcare package (including Dental & Optical care)
• Training & support provided
• Enrolment in our company pension plan
• Casual dress code
• Snazzy offices with free snacks and drinks
• Summer & Christmas parties, plus ad hoc social events
• Discounts at local businesses in Soho

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Location: Soho, London/ Option for 2 days to WFH

Start: ASAP 

Salary: £60-70k

Who are we? 

Kato is a fast-growing PropTech company, backed by top-tier VCs, investors, and industry experts. Our mission is to revolutionise commercial property through our all-in-one online platform and extensive industry data. We’re just getting started and are seeking dynamic, confident individuals to join our journey and help shape the future of commercial property.

Role overview

To own and define what great HR looks like at Kato. Partnering with the business to lead the people function; including employee relations, policy and process, and talent attraction and management - while acting as a trusted operator to the senior and executive team during our scaling journey.

Responsibilities & expectations 

Business partnering

• Act as the trusted HR partner, working directly with line managers across the business on performance, conduct, capability and team dynamics.
• Provide employees and managers support through the full employee lifecycle, ensuring consistency and compliance across the business.
• Coach managers to support employees, handle people issues, building line-manager capability and skillset.

Defining HR at Kato

• Set the HR strategy for Kato. You will be establishing what “HR brilliance” means in practice for the business and our stage of growth.
• Review or design, document and roll out core policies, processes and handbooks.
• Own the people-related elements of engagement and culture, including pulse surveys, listening groups and manager forums.
• Owning the HR systems, data and reporting Kato needs.

Talent management & attraction

• Define employer branding, hiring process design, and recruitment partner management.
• Own our talent management process, including retaining key people, evolving our career frameworks, performance and development.
• Owning the Kato employee benefits programme to ensure all staff have a competitive programme.
• Driving the Kato L&D programme and building opportunities for employees. You’ll work with leaders across the business to plan and design training programmes.

Senior operator & exec partnership

• Work alongside senior leaders as the voice of the people agenda, contributing to broader business decisions, not just HR ones.
• Advise the Executive team on workforce planning, organisational design and the people implications of business decisions.
• Work with external partners to represent Kato on employment law, regulatory and best-practice matters.

Qualities & traits

We want to ensure a great fit for both you and us, so we look for a few key qualities in all our team members:

• Excited for each step of the journey you are about to embark on
• Up for the challenge of a startup environment which is on a growth trajectory
• Strong work ethic and the ability to work as part of a team
• Adaptable to new and different challenges and ways of working
• Keen to take ownership of your work and responsibilities
• Tech-savvy
• A problem solver with a knack of picking things up and running with them
• Ability to work under pressure and multi-task
• Positive and empathetic
• A keep it simple attitude; working efficiently to enhance productivity
• Pro-active, interested in more than a ‘typical’ office job

Experience & skills

We’re committed to building a diverse team with a variety of backgrounds and experiences. The following skills and experiences will help you succeed in this role:

• Proven generalist HR professional, ideally having built or significantly shaped an HR function in a business of comparable size, ideally in a scaling business.
  

• Track record operating as a genuine business partner to line managers, and credible enough to work with senior management and challenge constructively.
• Hands-on mentality: someone who will drive development of process, programmes and policies themselves.
• Experience with talent attraction and workforce planning in a growing or change-oriented business.
• Strong employee relations - comfortable running complex, sensitive cases personally, not just overseeing them.
• Resilient, discreet and calm under pressure.

Compensation & benefits

We’re asking a lot of you, so it’s only fair that we give something back:

• Salary between £60,000 - £70,000
• Enrollment into the company bonus scheme
• Enrollment into the company share scheme
• 25 days annual leave
• Extra “life” days; a duvet day, a life-event day, your birthday off
• Enhanced maternity and paternity leave policy
• Healthcare package (including Dental & Optical care)
• Training & support provided
• Enrolment in our company pension plan
• Option for 2 days to WFH
• Casual dress code
• Snazzy offices with free snacks and drinks
• Summer & Christmas parties, plus ad hoc social events

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