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Principal Product Manager

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 create more owners.

Carta is trusted by more than 30,000 companies and over half a million employees in nearly 150 countries to manage cap tables, compensation, and valuations. Carta also supports over 5,000 funds representing over $100B in assets under administration with their venture capital solutions. Carta’s liquidity solutions have returned $13B to shareholders in secondary transactions. Today Carta’s platform manages over two trillion dollars in equity for nearly two million people globally. Companies and funds like Canva, 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. and a Muse VIBE Award winner in the Vacation and Time Off category.

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

The Team You’ll Work With

Carta’s software empowers companies, investors, employees, and other private market participants to view and track their assets online. This position as a data aggregator uniquely positions us to offer insights into the market as a whole. One area we consistently hear requests for is data around employee compensation (salary, equity, bonus).

The Compensation team’s goal is to build tools that help founders and other company administrators manage their employees compensation. We want to provide compensation insights that allow these users to make smarter decisions in real-time as they’re building their companies. Long term, we would also like to expand our compensation insights to employees to create transparency across the marketplace.

The Problems You’ll Solve

As Principal Product Manager for the Carta’s compensation product you will:

Develop a vision for how we can drive equity compensation, helping our users maximize their wealth potential through ownership
Communicate a compelling roadmap that reflects your team’s vision, the priorities of the business and user value
Build the best-in-class compensation product for our customers
Define objectives and success metrics that connect user and business impact
Manage multiple cross functional stakeholders including sales, marketing, customer success, support, etc to gathering feedback and drive alignment on execution
Leverage user research, rapid prototyping, and data insights to identify ways to build compensation products

About You

We are looking for a strong product leader who can drive strategy, prioritization, and product delivery. If you are passionate about building intuitive solutions to complex problems and have a desire to impact the financial future of employees around the world, we’d love to talk with you.

You have at least 6 years of product management experience
You have a founder mentality demonstrating strong sense of ownership and a bias to action
You are excited about 0-1 products and building new businesses from early stages
You are able to operate under ambiguity, you can create long term plans yet continue to validate and iterate with feedback from the market
You have both high IQ and EQ and are able to solve a wide variety of problems from user issues and data problems to team collaboration and dependency management
You enjoy working with a fast paced and passionate product development team
You’re interested in fintech and compensation, with a desire to become an expert in each domain you touch

Salary

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:

$208,000 - $260,000 in [San Francisco, CA, Santa Clara, CA]

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, connect with us via email at recruiting@carta.com. 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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