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Head of People Development

San Francisco, CA; New York, NY

The Company You’ll Join

Carta connects founders, investors, and limited partners through world-class software, purpose-built for everyone in venture capital, private equity and private credit. Trusted by 65,000+ companies in 160+ countries, Carta’s platform of software and services lays the groundwork so you can build, invest, and scale with confidence.

Carta’s Fund Administration platform supports 9,000+ funds and SPVs, representing nearly $185B in assets under management, with tools designed to enhance the strategic impact of fund CFOs. Recognized by Fortune, Forbes, Fast Company, Inc. and Great Places to Work, Carta is shaping the future of private market infrastructure.

Together, Carta is creating the end-to-end ERP platform for private markets. Traditional ERP solutions don’t work for Private Funds. Private capital markets need a comprehensive software solution to replace outdated spreadsheets and fragmented service providers. Carta’s software for the Office of the Fund CFO does just that - it’s a new category of software to make private markets look more like public markets - a connected ERP for private capital. 

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

The Problems You'll Solve

As Carta grows in complexity and scale, our ability to develop and empower talent must evolve at the same pace—if not faster. Your mission will be to restart Carta’s People Development engine by building from the ground up with AI at the core of how we learn and grow. As the foundational expert in this space, you’ll have a high impact in defining and driving the strategy for learning and development with speed, creativity, and a deep focus on team-based learning experiences.

You’ll define what growth looks like at Carta—how Cartans build mission-critical skills, adapt to emerging technologies like AI, and rise to new challenges in their roles. From tech fluency to leadership readiness, you’ll lay the foundation for a culture of continuous learning that is scalable and deeply connected to business impact.

In this role, you’ll:

  • Develop Carta’s AI enablement roadmap: identify critical capabilities impacted by AI and architect learning experiences to build confidence, competence, and curiosity across the org
  • Be the pioneer in  Carta’s efforts to retool our managers for the future by designing targeted, AI-informed learning journeys to help managers grow alongside their teams and navigate a fast-changing work environment
  • Build and design development strategies that support growth across key moments in the employee lifecycle—from onboarding and role transitions to performance conversations, promotions, and leadership readiness
  • Partner closely with technical, business, and executive teams to identify skill gaps and capability-building opportunities across the org
  • Co-create career development frameworks in partnership with HRBPs, empowering Cartans with clarity, transparency, and a strong sense of ownership over their path
  • Select and implement learning platforms or tools but particularly those that leverage AI or adaptive learning for scalable, personalized delivery
  • Establish clear feedback loops and success metrics to measure participation, learning transfer, and impact
  • Create learning programs that emphasize real-time enablement over one-size-fits-all content—driven by live team needs, experimentation, and impact
  • Move fast and be scrappy—prioritizing high-impact, nimble solutions over polished perfection in service of delivering what the business and people need, when they need it
  • Cultivate a culture of continuous learning driven by team-based collaboration, peer coaching, internal knowledge-sharing, and talent enablement systems
  • Serve as a thought partner to the business on how learning, feedback, performance, and employee experience intersect—and what we can co-design together

The Team You'll Work With

This is a senior Individual Contributor (IC) role that sits within Carta’s People Team and reports to our VP of Talent Acquisition. As the first hire focused exclusively on People Development, you’ll be the principal architect of this function, with the autonomy to define our learning philosophy, architecture, and long-term strategy.

You’ll operate as a senior, cross-functional partner, collaborating closely with Talent, HR, People Ops, and Total Rewards. You will also work directly with leaders across the business to create nimble, relevant development programs embedded in the realities of each team’s work and aligned with the future of how we grow, collaborate, and lead at Carta.

About You

You are a builder and a visionary who gets energy from designing something that didn’t exist before—and then watching people thrive because of it. You bring a deep understanding of learning and development best practices, a forward-looking point of view on AI, and a strategic business mindset that grounds everything you build in real organizational challenges.

You’ve led complex development programs at scale, guided cross-functional teams through change, and brought new skills and ways of working into organizations. You're skilled at aligning senior stakeholders, delivering with craft and intention, and balancing vision with practical, hands-on execution. Most importantly, you’re excited to be a part of a bold new chapter of learning at Carta—one that puts AI capability, people growth, and business impact at the center.

What you bring:

  • 10+ years of relevant experience in Learning & Development, People Development, Organizational Design, or related fields
  • Proven success designing and scaling learning strategies for fast-growing, high-performing teams.
  • Strong perspective on how AI is transforming the workplace and an ambition to help people work successfully in an AI-enabled world
  • Mastery in program design, stakeholder management, and internal consulting—especially with technical functions and senior leaders
  • Comfort building new things in ambiguous environments, with strong project management skills and an ownership mindset
  • A coaching-oriented approach to facilitation, team development, and building a feedback culture.
  • Experience selecting, launching, and managing L&D tools or platforms, especially those that leverage AI or behavioral data
  • Passion for making learning inclusive, accessible, and actionable for all

Bonus: Coaching certification or experience with facilitation frameworks and personality assessments like DiSC, Hogan, or Gallup CliftonStrengths
At Carta, you’re not just an employee. You’re a builder who is creating  infrastructure that accelerates innovation and empowers more ownership. Cartans are helpful, relentless, unconventional and kind; representing Carta’s Identity Traits. They work collaboratively and cross functionally  to challenge the status quo; working towards a common goal of creating more owners in the private markets. 

Salary

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) range for this role is: 
 $172,000 - $215,000  in New York and San Francisco

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

 

 

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