Back to jobs

Marketing Internship - Graphic Designer / Art Director

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 Private capital markets need a comprehensive software solution to replace outdated spreadsheets and fragmented service providers.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

The 10-Week "North Star" Project

We’re true creatives at heart; at the end of this Internship, our goal is to have you leave with a portfolio-worthy win that you can show off proudly for years to come. Your internship will focus on the evolution of our Brand Design System.

Great brands have a functional and flexible design system that’s both usable across the business and engineered for the modern age. You’ll be responsible for auditing, designing, and building out a Figma-based Brand Asset Library. This includes:

  • The Component Refresh: Auditing our current social, email, and presentation templates and rebuilding them into high-functioning Figma components.
  • The Mini-Campaign: Applying your new system to a real-world business initiative (e.g., a Q3 product launch or seasonal brand campaign).
  • The Hand-off: Presenting your library to the wider marketing team and creating "How-to" documentation to ensure your work lives on after your 10 weeks.

What You’ll Do Day-to-Day

  • Support the senior design team with junior-level production work (social assets, digital ads, presentation decks, and ebooks).
  • Participate in creative brainstorm sessions—we want your eyes and your opinions.
  • Master the art of Figma auto-layout and component properties (we’ll teach you, but you should be ready to dive in).
  • Collaborate with your Manager and Mentor to navigate the transition from in-office collaboration to remote execution.

The Team You'll Work With

At Carta, the Creative Team is hard at work building a world-class brand that scales seamlessly across a diverse range of projects  — from visual ID and branding work, to paid ad campaigns and ground-up narrative storytelling.

To help us in that mission, we’re looking for an ambitious Brand Design intern who’s ready to move beyond “making things look pretty” and help us architect a system that scales across the whole business.

Support & Mentorship
We know the first few weeks are a whirlwind. You will be paired with:

  • A Manager: To guide your project scope, provide technical feedback, and ensure your work aligns with business goals.
  • A Mentor: A dedicated peer designer to help you navigate our tool stack (Figma, Slack, project management) and give you the "unfiltered" scoop on how to succeed here.

Program At-a-Glance
Location: San Francisco (Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday mandatory in-office)
Duration: 10 Weeks (June 8, 2026 – August 14, 2026)
Commitment: 40 hours per week
Compensation: $25.00/hour

About You

At Carta, the Creative Team is hard at work building a world-class brand that scales seamlessly across a diverse range of projects  — from visual ID and branding work, to paid ad campaigns and ground-up narrative storytelling.

To help us in that mission, we’re looking for an ambitious Brand Design intern who’s ready to move beyond “making things look pretty” and help us architect a system that scales across the whole business.

Ideally, you’re a savant in Figma with an eye for pixel-perfect design that pushes the narrative envelope. You thrive at getting your hands dirty in complex design problems, and are excited by the idea of producing everything from campaign assets and component libraries to ground-up system elements that are flexible, beautiful, and (most importantly) empower our partners across the company to self-serve their own materials. Bonus points if you have experience with DAM systems (in particular, Frontify).

To excel in this role, you’ll need to bring expertise at not only organizing assets into templates that make production seamless across the organization, but educating internal partners (including those on your own Creative Team) about how best to leverage those tools to help scale their day-to-day work. 

Finally, you’re a born problem solver with a proactive mindset, geared toward finding solutions instead of waiting for them. The team you’re joining cares deeply about collaboration, positivity, and maintaining a supportive culture — if you thrive when partnering with marketers, product managers, and other creatives to find out-of-the-box solutions to hard problems, you’ll fit right in.

If this sounds like you, we’d love to connect.

Qualifications

  • Recent graduate or final year student in Graphic Design, Advertising Art Direction or similar.
  • A strong graphic design portfolio that demonstrates excellent taste levels and command of form, composition, typography, color. Only candidates providing a digital portfolio will be considered.
  • Foundational knowledge of Figma and Adobe Photoshop (you know your way around a canvas).
  • A "figure-it-out" mentality—you aren't afraid to ask questions or watch a tutorial to solve a problem.
  • Availability to be in-office during June and parts of August.

 

Disclosures:

  • 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. 
  • Carta uses E-Verify in the United States for employment authorization. See the E-Verify and Department of Justice websites for more details.
  • For information on our data privacy policies, see Privacy, CA Candidate Privacy, and Brazil Transparency Report.
  • Please note that all official communications from us will come from an @carta.com or @carta-external.com domain. Report any contact from unapproved domains to security@carta.com.

Create a Job Alert

Interested in building your career at Carta? Get future opportunities sent straight to your email.

Apply for this job

*

indicates a required field

Resume/CV*

Accepted file types: pdf, doc, docx, txt, rtf

Cover Letter*

Accepted file types: pdf, doc, docx, txt, rtf

Select...
Select...
Select...
Select...

Voluntary Self-Identification

For government reporting purposes, we ask candidates to respond to the below self-identification survey. Completion of the form is entirely voluntary. Whatever your decision, it will not be considered in the hiring process or thereafter. Any information that you do provide will be recorded and maintained in a confidential file.

As set forth in Carta’s Equal Employment Opportunity policy, we do not discriminate on the basis of any protected group status under any applicable law.

Select...
Select...
Race & Ethnicity Definitions

If you believe you belong to any of the categories of protected veterans listed below, please indicate by making the appropriate selection. As a government contractor subject to the Vietnam Era Veterans Readjustment Assistance Act (VEVRAA), we request this information in order to measure the effectiveness of the outreach and positive recruitment efforts we undertake pursuant to VEVRAA. Classification of protected categories is as follows:

A "disabled veteran" is one of the following: a veteran of the U.S. military, ground, naval or air service who is entitled to compensation (or who but for the receipt of military retired pay would be entitled to compensation) under laws administered by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs; or a person who was discharged or released from active duty because of a service-connected disability.

A "recently separated veteran" means any veteran during the three-year period beginning on the date of such veteran's discharge or release from active duty in the U.S. military, ground, naval, or air service.

An "active duty wartime or campaign badge veteran" means a veteran who served on active duty in the U.S. military, ground, naval or air service during a war, or in a campaign or expedition for which a campaign badge has been authorized under the laws administered by the Department of Defense.

An "Armed forces service medal veteran" means a veteran who, while serving on active duty in the U.S. military, ground, naval or air service, participated in a United States military operation for which an Armed Forces service medal was awarded pursuant to Executive Order 12985.

Select...

Voluntary Self-Identification of Disability

Form CC-305
Page 1 of 1
OMB Control Number 1250-0005
Expires 04/30/2026

Why are you being asked to complete this form?

We are a federal contractor or subcontractor. The law requires us to provide equal employment opportunity to qualified people with disabilities. We have a goal of having at least 7% of our workers as people with disabilities. The law says we must measure our progress towards this goal. To do this, we must ask applicants and employees if they have a disability or have ever had one. People can become disabled, so we need to ask this question at least every five years.

Completing this form is voluntary, and we hope that you will choose to do so. Your answer is confidential. No one who makes hiring decisions will see it. Your decision to complete the form and your answer will not harm you in any way. If you want to learn more about the law or this form, visit the U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) website at www.dol.gov/ofccp.

How do you know if you have a disability?

A disability is a condition that substantially limits one or more of your “major life activities.” If you have or have ever had such a condition, you are a person with a disability. Disabilities include, but are not limited to:

  • Alcohol or other substance use disorder (not currently using drugs illegally)
  • Autoimmune disorder, for example, lupus, fibromyalgia, rheumatoid arthritis, HIV/AIDS
  • Blind or low vision
  • Cancer (past or present)
  • Cardiovascular or heart disease
  • Celiac disease
  • Cerebral palsy
  • Deaf or serious difficulty hearing
  • Diabetes
  • Disfigurement, for example, disfigurement caused by burns, wounds, accidents, or congenital disorders
  • Epilepsy or other seizure disorder
  • Gastrointestinal disorders, for example, Crohn's Disease, irritable bowel syndrome
  • Intellectual or developmental disability
  • Mental health conditions, for example, depression, bipolar disorder, anxiety disorder, schizophrenia, PTSD
  • Missing limbs or partially missing limbs
  • Mobility impairment, benefiting from the use of a wheelchair, scooter, walker, leg brace(s) and/or other supports
  • Nervous system condition, for example, migraine headaches, Parkinson’s disease, multiple sclerosis (MS)
  • Neurodivergence, for example, attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), autism spectrum disorder, dyslexia, dyspraxia, other learning disabilities
  • Partial or complete paralysis (any cause)
  • Pulmonary or respiratory conditions, for example, tuberculosis, asthma, emphysema
  • Short stature (dwarfism)
  • Traumatic brain injury
Select...

PUBLIC BURDEN STATEMENT: According to the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 no persons are required to respond to a collection of information unless such collection displays a valid OMB control number. This survey should take about 5 minutes to complete.