Product Manager Intern

The Team You’ll Work With

Carta's hiring our first cohort of Product Interns to be embedded in Carta's products across multiple teams:

• Carta International: building on 0-1 product to drive Carta's international expansion in priority markets outside of the U.S.
• Carta Financial Products: building payment and banking products across Carta's ecosystem for a set of diverse customers that span from companies, employees, investors, and internal stakeholders.
• Carta Core: scaling Carta's Core SaaS product line for companies, investors and employees, as well as unlocking new and untapped potential from Carta's unique, industry-leading dataset. 

About You

We’re looking to hire full-time Product Interns for the Summer (May/June - August). Interns should be enrolled in an undergrad or graduate program, or recently graduated. We look for Product Managers who are:

• Empathetic: Product Managers must understand user pain points. They should be able to put themselves in the position of users and figure out ways to help them do the jobs they are trying to get done. This involves customer interviews as well as looking at signals from our delivery and product data.

• Organized: Product Managers create order from chaos. They know the pulse of their teams and how to keep them focused and moving forward. They manage workflows across teams, projects, and offices and are the go to source for information.

• Cross-functional: Product Managers lead and coordinate development efforts between internal business and development teams. They ensure that Carta’s business needs are translated into requirements. They drive execution (planning, coordination, project management) of technology projects from ideation through launch.

• Strategic: Product Managers anticipate bottlenecks, weigh the costs and benefits of various solutions, forecast delivery timelines, and balance business needs with technical constraints. They provide crucial oversight and insight across projects.

• Communicators: By nature of their position, Product Managers must be strong communicators across multiple stakeholders. They translate information from technical team members to business counterparts. When problems arise, they feel comfortable escalating them to the proper stakeholders and identifying actionable solutions.

• Collaborators: Product Managers partner with engineering, product, and business leadership to build highly collaborative teams and facilitate compromises across teams and stakeholders.

• Think big and small: Product Managers look for scalable solutions that can move entire parts of organization, rather than just one team or a few. They understand our large, interconnected projects and cross-product dependencies deeply. While Program Managers can manage projects at a high level across teams, they can also help individuals and teams deconstruct problems into smaller solvable solutions.

• Data and impact driven: Product Managers identify metrics that quantify success. They use those metrics to understand team and project impact. Furthermore, they are constantly looking for the projects and solutions that deliver the highest impact and value for the company.

• Comfortable navigating ambiguity: Product Managers know when they or their teams are stuck. They gather information, mediate hard conversations, and identify a path forward that others can confidently follow.