Head of Human Resources

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 unlock the power of equity ownership for more people in more places. 

Carta is trusted by more than 40,000 companies and over two million people in nearly 160 countries to manage cap tables, compensation, and valuations. Carta also supports nearly 7,000 funds and SPVs, and represents nearly $130B in assets under administration. Carta's tender offer solutions have returned $14B to shareholders in secondary transactions. Today, Carta’s platform manages nearly three trillion dollars in equity globally. 

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

The Team You’ll Work With

Reporting to the Chief People Officer, we are looking to bring on a Head of Human Resources to lead our 20-person HR organization within the broader People team. You will build meaningful relationships and partnerships with our Executive Team, business stakeholders,  People Leadership Team, and other cross-functional partners. 

The Problems You’ll Solve

As a dynamic HR leader with a passion for transforming challenges into opportunities, you will consult with the leadership team and work closely with the broader People Team to execute HR strategies that help build a high performing team and culture at Carta. With your leadership, the HR function will be an advisor and strategic partner in helping Carta meet its business goals and objectives. 

A few other things you’ll do: 

• Learn the Carta business inside and out so you can be a strategic advisor on all things talent and people
• Drive global HR functional excellence and process improvement
• Provide strategic partnership and counsel to the Carta executive leadership team
• Develop and drive the People strategy to meet our aggressive business goals
• Partner with the business to execute on key People initiatives (performance management, compensation, benefits, development programs, etc)
• Provide guidance and input on workforce planning, succession planning, compensation, promotions, lateral transfers, leveling, and benchmarking
• Build strong relationships with employees, management, and the leadership team
• Act as an employee champion and change agent, proactively communicating needs with our broader People team and senior leadership
• Successfully influence others by providing direction, knowledge, and support to create a high-performing organization
• Maintain in-depth knowledge of legal requirements related to day-to-day management of employees, reducing legal risks and ensuring regulatory compliance
• Ensure proactive compliance with all labor, wage, and health and safety laws
• Provide coaching to the business and help set the People priorities 
• Roll up your sleeves and dive into the high volume of daily operational HR needs, working with our HR operations team to streamline and optimize workflows to gain efficiencies and improve the employee experience
• Oversee and drive global and local consistency by collaborating with our head of ER to manage and resolve employee relations issues

About You

• You are a master of your craft. You have at least 12 years of HRBP and/or HR experience and you worked in a Financial Services or Fintech company in the last 5 years (preferred)
• Prior experience leading an HR function with a global presence and a track record of unifying people processes and the employee experience across all locations
• You’ve implemented and built standardized and scalable processes across an HR function to drive efficiencies and results
• You have overseen, implemented, and iterated upon complex people programs
• You have a history of building strategic and effective partnerships with the People Team COEs and cross-functional partners (recruiting, total rewards, legal, ops, systems etc.)
• You have outstanding people skills and high emotional intelligence which allows you to quickly and easily build trust with business stakeholders and employees
• You lead with data. You know how to generate a hypothesis and love using data to tell stories that help inform talent strategy
• You are comfortable coaching executives and delivering feedback
• You are highly organized and are skilled at sequencing competing priorities quickly
• You lead by example and exemplify Carta’s operating principles and identity traits; with an emphasis on having a bias to action, being relentless, and doing the right thing

Salary

Carta’s compensation package includes a market competiti