Product Design Lead

<div class="content-intro"><h2>The Company You’ll Join</h2> <p>Carta connects founders, investors, and limited partners through world-class software, purpose-built for everyone in venture capital, private equity and private credit. Trusted by 65,000+ companies in 160+ countries, Carta’s platform of software and services lays the groundwork so you can build, invest, and scale with confidence.</p> <p>Carta’s Fund Administration platform supports 9,000+ funds and SPVs, representing nearly $185B in assets under management, with tools designed to enhance the strategic impact of fund CFOs. Recognized by Fortune, Forbes, Fast Company, Inc. and Great Places to Work, Carta is shaping the future of private market infrastructure.</p> <p>Together, Carta is creating the end-to-end ERP platform for private markets. Traditional ERP solutions don’t work for Private Funds. Private capital markets need a comprehensive software solution to replace outdated spreadsheets and fragmented service providers. Carta’s software for the Office of the Fund CFO does just that - it’s a new category of software to make private markets look more like public markets - a connected ERP for private capital. </p> <p>For more information about our offices and culture, check out our <a href="https://carta.com/careers/">Carta careers page</a>.</p></div><h2><strong>The Problems You'll Solve</strong></h2> <p>Carta is in search of a Product Design Lead who is passionate about leading complex, high-impact projects, and influencing product strategy through design vision. This person will work alongside an exceptional design team creating and shipping innovative digital product experiences in our Fund Administration business.</p> <p>Our ideal candidate is savvy, curious, enjoys working cross-functionally, and can effectively communicate vision to leadership. They can advocate for the nerdiness of design craft in addition to the business case of a given design direction. 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.</p> <p>As a Product Design Lead, you will play a crucial role throughout the organization—influencing the future of Carta products. You’ll have the opportunity to design for a range of customer and user archetypes including: fund managers, investors, tax experts, and our Carta service and delivery colleagues.</p> <p>Additionally you will:</p> <ul> <li><strong>Drive the overall strategic design direction</strong> for key features of our venture and private equity platform business.</li> <li><strong>Deeply understand user needs</strong> and drive alignment around solutions to core business problems by creating models, concept diagrams, workflow diagrams, and journey maps.</li> <li>Design flows, sketches, prototypes, and <strong>drive implementation for your products</strong>, ensuring a high-quality "last mile" execution.</li> <li>Design experiences for web and mobile applications.</li> <li><strong>Contribute to building a strong human-centered design culture</strong> and act as a <strong>strong leader</strong> and mentor within the team.</li> </ul> <h2><strong>About You:</strong></h2> <p>The ideal candidate is passionate about building intuitive solutions to complex problems that provide direct value to users and enjoys driving strategy, ideation, prioritization, problem-solving, and product delivery. If that sounds like you, we would love to talk to you.</p> <p>In our search, we’re prioritizing:</p> <ul> <li><strong>8+ years of product design experience.</strong></li> <li>A strong portfolio of case studies that demonstrate a successful track record of human-centered design solutions that address strategic business problems.</li> <li><strong>Deep expertise in systems thinking</strong> and solving complex problems, coupled with a relentless focus on the <strong>craft and execution of ... (truncated, view full listing at source)