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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.
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 a Design Research & Strategy Lead who is radically inspired by people, gathers great insights, and can work alongside an exceptional design team creating and shipping innovative digital product experiences across the company. This person is passionate about leading projects, skilled at uncovering human-centered insights, and experienced at translating these insights into opportunities for design and product innovation. Our ideal candidate is savvy, curious, enjoys working cross-functionally, and can effectively communicate and story tell insights to leadership. This person must be a self-starter who can work through ambiguity to lead projects from start to finish. We are looking for someone who can inspire fellow designers and stakeholders, and lead with both user empathy and conviction.
As a Design Research & Strategy Lead, you will play a crucial role throughout the product lifecycle — using research to inspire our design teams, inform rich prototypes, and champion the needs of our Carta users. You’ll uncover insights across many unique customer and user archetypes including: company founders, CFOs, investors, employees vesting equity, law firms, tax experts, and our Carta service and delivery colleagues.
Additionally you will:
We are looking for a strong Design Researcher and Strategist to influence and evolve our existing Carta products, explore new product opportunities, and advocate what’s best for our users. This person can drive strategy, ideation, prioritization, problem solving, and product delivery. If you are passionate about building intuitive solutions to complex problems that provide direct value to users, we would love to talk with you. In our search, we’re prioritizing:
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:
$180,000 - $213,000 in [Seattle, WA]
$191,250 - $225,000 in [San Francisco, CA; Santa Clara, CA; New York, NY]
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 recruiter via email. As a company, we value fairness, helpfulness, transparency, leadership and build our teams around these values. Check out our careers page to get to know us better as you think about your next step at Carta.
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Companies and funds like 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., a Muse VIBE Award winner in the Vacation and Time Off category and certified as a Great Place to Work.
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