Design Research & Strategy Lead
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 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.
The Problems You'll Solve
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.
Design Research & Strategy Lead Role
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.
Responsibilities
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.
Other Responsibilities Include:
- Lead and own research for diverse product teams through the entire project journey focusing on, but not limited to, how companies, investors, and employees interact, leverage, and use our platform
- Design, scope, and run user research including research planning, participant recruiting, data analysis, synthesis, and storytelling
- Utilize strengths in both qualitative and quantitative research methods including usability testing, prototype testing, field studies, data analysis, and survey design
About You
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.
Requirements
- 8+ years of qualitative research experience
- Experience drawing from a variety of research methods
- Familiarity with quantitative research methods and data analysis
- Exceptional communication and storytelling skills
- Ability to work flexibly, yet efficiently — exercising a balance between research rigor and design scrappiness
- High comfort level with ambiguity; openness to critique from other disciplines and curiosity to learn from a spectrum of perspectives
Nice-to-haves:
- Experience working in finance, enterprise technology, service design and/or the venture capital space
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:
- $180,000 - $213,000 in [Seattle, WA]
- $191,250 - $225,000 in [San Francisco, CA; Santa Clara, CA; New York, NY]
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Awards and Acknowledgements
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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