Senior Product Manager, Identity

The Team You’ll Work With

Product management at Carta is a unique challenge because of the depth, breadth, and complexity of Carta’s business. Product Managers not only wear multiple cross-functional hats, they must also examine the product through multiple lenses. You’ll also have an obligation to not only research the problems of our customers but to teach and educate the business about these problems. You’ll ask the hard questions and work closely with the engineering, design, and customer-facing teams to develop innovative products and features that solve complex equity management problems for Carta’s customers.

The mission of the Identity team is to structure and bring transparency to all data around our users, stakeholders, portfolios, and entities that hold equity on Carta. Succeeding in this mission means that Carta will be able to power valuable, innovative products built on top of this data. This team is not only responsible for building products that help power the experience of our holders, they’ll be responsible for growing Carta’s Identity data set to power our differentiated downstream products. The Product Manager for this team will work with a team of highly skilled engineers to re-think and re-architect the way Identity is thought of in the private, public, and venture markets to bring structure to the way information is stored and utilized in a way that has not been done before.

The Problems You’ll Solve

As a Product Manager on the Equity Transactions team, you’ll be part of the team building the foundation for how Carta’s users experience the different tools and products we offer. This Product Manager will focus specifically on the foundational concepts of Identity, which is the core concept that powers any financial institution. You’ll be defining and executing the strategy for how we structure mission-critical data around the various users of Carta including, and you’ll build and ship products that unlock the tools that make Carta’s core businesses grow. A large part of this role will also require working closely with stakeholders across the business that depend on Identity data for other Carta products and services.

Additionally in this role you will: 

• Create and execute on a strategy for how Identity data should flow through Carta’s different products, experiences, and services
• Act as an advocate in helping to “create more owners” and drive equity transparency through increasing the ease of structuring and sharing data across products and tools
• Work with engineering to define domain data models while ensuring that downstream products and use cases can leverage these models
• Write clear and concise documentation that outlines business cases and customer problems that are solved by structured Identity data
• Collaborate with business stakeholders to gather business requirements and communicate feature releases
• Apply a data-driven approach to developing innovative, industry-leading products that help Carta’s customers manage their stakeholder and Identity data
• Teach and educate the business on complex customer problems related to the Identity objects on Carta across our Stakeholder experience, Investor Services, Cap table experience, and Financial products, among others

About You

You have an outstanding track record, showcasing empathetic solutions to problems, with exemplary skills in divergent thinking, idea synthesis, and execution. Additionally, you have a deep understanding of how to sequence and build products to continually deliver customer value and assess product impact.

• Experience building for measurable outcomes including the ability to conduct both generative and evaluative user research.
• Experience in working and collaborating with diverse teams in a dynamic, rapid growth environment.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills. The ability to tell a clear and compelling story to leaders and champion your ideas.
• Exceptional learning abilities to quickly understand and form an opinion about new product lines.