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Director of Design, Private Equity

San Francisco, CA; Santa Clara, CA; Seattle, WA; New York, NY

The Company You’ll Join

Carta develops purpose-built software that transforms traditional accounting into a powerful growth engine.

Carta’s world-class fund administration platform supports nearly 7,000 funds and SPVs, and represents nearly $130B in assets under management in venture capital and private equity.

Trusted by more than 40,000 companies, Carta also helps private businesses in over 160 countries manage their cap tables, valuations, taxes, equity programs, compensation, and more.

Together, Carta is setting a new standard as the end-to-end platform for private markets. Our best-in-class solution for fund management seamlessly integrates investor and portfolio company insights via a suite of tools designed ground-up to support the strategic impact of the fund CFO.

For more information about our offices and culture, check out our Carta careers page.

The Problems You'll Solve

At Carta, our employees set out on a mission to unlock the power of equity ownership for more people in more places. We believe that the problems we solve today unlock the opportunities of tomorrow.

Carta is in search of an experienced Design Director to join an exceptional bench of Design Leaders responsible for creating and shipping innovative digital product experiences across the company. We are looking for a Director who is visionary in approach, passionate about leading complex, high impact projects, and influencing product strategy through design vision. This person will be dedicated to the Private Equity vertical where they will lead high impact design projects and a small team of designers focused on solving the complex needs of private equity. You'll be scaling the Carta platform to work for all the nuances of the most strategic and complex customers in private markets.

Our ideal candidate is savvy, curious, enjoys working cross-functionally, and can masterfully communicate vision to leadership. They can advocate for the nerdiness of design craft in addition to the business case of a given design direction. This person must be a self-starter who can work through ambiguity to define key initiatives, lead teams through projects from start to finish, and align the broader R&D organization around these initiatives. We are looking for someone who can inspire fellow designers and stakeholders, and lead with both user empathy and conviction.

As a Design Director, you will play a crucial role throughout the organization— influencing the future of Carta products. You’ll have the opportunity to design for a range of customer and user archetypes including: CFO’s, company founders, employees vesting equity, investors, law firms, tax experts, and our Carta service and delivery colleagues.

Additionally you will:

  • Develop, pitch, and defend product strategy and design direction to the Carta executive suite 
  • Lead teams to deeply understand user needs and drive alignment around solutions to core business problems by creating models, concept diagrams, workflow diagrams, and journey maps
  • Be hands on designing flows, sketches, prototypes (at Carta we have a culture of leaders who ‘lead by doing’)
  • Work cross functionally to drive implementation and adoption of your product
  • Lead design reviews and mentor other designers and stakeholders to up-level their UI/UX design skills
  • Contribute to building a strong human centered design organization

About You

The ideal candidate is passionate about building intuitive solutions for complex problems that provide direct value to users and enjoys driving strategy, ideation, prioritization, problem solving, and product delivery. If that sounds like you, we would love to talk to you. In our search, we’re prioritizing: 

  • 12+ years of product design experience, with at least 4 years focused on solving complex, enterprise SaaS challenges
  • A strong portfolio of case studies that demonstrate a successful track record of human-centered design solutions that address strategic business problems
  • Deep expertise in UI/UX craft; passion for visual design, interaction details, typography, and pixel perfect deliverables
  • Experience influencing cross-functional teams to adopt bold design solutions
  • Exceptional communication and storytelling skills that allow you to convey the value of your design solutions.
  • Ability to work in a dynamic environment — balancing rigor and scrappiness.
  • High comfort level with ambiguity; openness to critique from other disciplines and curiosity to learn from a spectrum of perspectives.
  • Passion for mentoring designers and teaching about design craft and quality
  • Experience actively managing designers at different stages of their careers
  • A love of getting hands dirty and leading from the front
  • Nice-to-have: experience with finance, venture capital or private equity 

Salary

We are hiring for multiple levels and locations, so final offers may vary from the amounts listed based on geography, experience and expertise, and other factors.

Carta’s compensation package includes a market competitive salary, equity for all full time roles, exceptional benefits, and, for applicable roles, commissions plans. Our minimum cash compensation (salary + commission if applicable) range for this role is: 

  •  $225,000- $300,000 in [San Francisco, CA; Santa Clara, CA; New York, NY] 
  •  $214,000 - $285,000 in [Seattle, WA]

Final offers may vary from the amount listed based on geography, candidate experience and expertise, and other factors.

We are an equal opportunity employer and are committed to providing a positive interview experience for every candidate. If accommodations due to a disability or medical condition are needed, please connect with the talent partner via email. 

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