Senior Product Designer, Stakeholder Management

The Company You’ll Join

Carta is a platform that helps people manage equity, build businesses, and invest in the companies of tomorrow. Our mission is to create more owners. 

Carta is trusted by more than 30,000 companies and over half a million employees in nearly 150 countries to manage cap tables, compensation, and valuations. Carta also supports over 5,000 funds representing over $100B in assets under administration with their venture capital solutions. Carta’s liquidity solutions have returned $13B to shareholders in secondary transactions. Today Carta’s platform manages over two trillion dollars in equity for nearly two million people globally. Companies and funds like Canva, Tribe, and Pipe build their businesses on Carta. 

The company has been included on the Forbes World’s Best Cloud Companies, Fast Company's Most Innovative list, and Inc.’s Fastest-Growing Private Companies. We’ve also been recognized as a 2023 Built In Best Place to Work in the U.S. and a Muse VIBE Award winner in the Vacation and Time Off category.

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

The Team You’ll Work With

You’ll join a diverse team of Designers, Engineers, and Product Managers who are focused on delivering great experiences for our users across all of Carta’s products. As a designer on the Stakeholder Management team you will be working as part of Carta’s broader cap table team and will collaborate in creating efficient and seamless cross-platform journeys for our users while furthering the next strategic paradigm for the platform as a whole. You will be supported by Product Designers and Design Technologists across the organization and will be able to leverage the full range of resources that our Design organization has to offer.

The Problems You’ll Solve

We’re looking for a Senior Product Designer who is passionate about helping businesses and their employees succeed in their missions by helping them run more effectively. As a Senior Product Designer on our team, you will:

• Collaborate closely with Design and Product Leadership to define features and contribute to the overall direction of your product area
• Deeply understand user needs and drive alignment around core platform concepts by creating models, concept diagrams, workflow diagrams, and journey maps
• Work with Product, Engineering, Customer Support and Product Marketing to represent the design team, facilitate design discussions, and give feedback in planning and product discussions
• Create and validate designs through sketches, prototypes, and testing
• Determine the information architecture and flow for your product features
• Create high-fidelity visuals and specifications for your final solutions
• Work with partners to help summarize and communicate research findings to inform our decisions and build an even greater understanding of and empathy for our customers
• Solicit feedback early and often from your peers, including other product designers and teammates in your product team. Participate in weekly design syncs with the design team
• Help maintain our design system with other product designers and advocate for scalable design solutions

The Impact You’ll Have

You will be joining our Stakeholder Management team that defines and builds workflows to manage employee and other stakeholders’ equity on the cap table. This includes key strategic areas that enable most of Carta’s downstream products. You’ll be tasked with ensuring best-in-class UX while reimagining the product to better fit our user’s needs. Furthermore, you’ll be looking to bring new advances in machine learning and automation to market, increasing ease and efficiency for our businesses.

About You

We are looking for a strong designer to envision the future of stakeholder management at Carta — someone who can help drive design strategy, ideation, prioritization, problem solving, and design delivery. If you are passionate about building intuitive solutions that simplify complexity, we would love to talk with you.

What you’ll need: 

• 5+ years of professional work experience in an individual contributor role, on a Product Design team
• Background in Graphic Design, Human-Computer Interaction, Computer Science, or a related field/equivalent experience
• An outstanding portfolio showcasi