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Director of Design, Design Systems
$160k-196k (estimate)
Full Time | Investment Management
2 Weeks Ago
CARTA is Hiring a Director of Design, Design Systems Near Seattle, WA
The Company You’ll JoinCarta 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 SolveAt 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. Carta is in search of an experienced Director of Design Systems to join an exceptional bench of Design Leaders responsible for creating and shipping innovative digital product experiences across the company. We are looking for a Director who is visionary in approach, can advance our design system strategy, advocate for design excellence and quality across many diverse teams, and effectively lead a team of designers and design technologists to significant impact across Carta.
Our ideal candidate is savvy, curious, enjoys working cross-functionally, and can masterfully 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 define key initiatives, lead teams through projects from start to finish, and align the broader R&D organization around these initiatives. We are looking for someone who can inspire fellow designers and stakeholders, and lead with both user empathy and conviction.
As a Design Director, 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: company founders, employees vesting equity, investors, law firms, tax experts, and our Carta service and delivery colleagues.
Additionally You Will
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, please connect with the recruiter via email. 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.
Important Security Notice for CandidatesOur company has been targeted by individuals creating fake domains similar to ours to scam prospects and candidates. Please note that all official communications from us will come from an @carta.com domain. Be cautious of any requests for sensitive information or payments outside of our official channels. For more information about this type of scam, please review the guidelines provided by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). If you encounter any suspicious activity, please report it immediately to recruiting-systems@carta.com .
Awards and AcknowledgementsCompanies 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 .
Interested in data privacy? Check out our policies on Privacy and CA Candidate Privacy.
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 SolveAt 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. Carta is in search of an experienced Director of Design Systems to join an exceptional bench of Design Leaders responsible for creating and shipping innovative digital product experiences across the company. We are looking for a Director who is visionary in approach, can advance our design system strategy, advocate for design excellence and quality across many diverse teams, and effectively lead a team of designers and design technologists to significant impact across Carta.
Our ideal candidate is savvy, curious, enjoys working cross-functionally, and can masterfully 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 define key initiatives, lead teams through projects from start to finish, and align the broader R&D organization around these initiatives. We are looking for someone who can inspire fellow designers and stakeholders, and lead with both user empathy and conviction.
As a Design Director, 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: company founders, employees vesting equity, investors, law firms, tax experts, and our Carta service and delivery colleagues.
Additionally You Will
- Develop and evangelize the overall strategy of our design systems evolution, ensuring it’s focused on making an impact on our products
- Ship with speed and consistency, while setting the future vision
- Get your hands dirty to lead workshops and key projects that advance our design system
- Align cross-functional stakeholders and executives on the importance of design systems and the value of ongoing work
- Promote design excellence and quality standards across all products through collaborative efforts with your team and the broader product design organization.
- Partner with PM and Engineering Leads to create a holistic system that works well for both our customers and our internal teams and establish approaches to measure the effectiveness of the system
- Hire, retain and develop a bar-raising design team
- Contribute to building a strong human centered design culture
- 12 years of product design experience, with at least 5 years focused on design systems
- A strong portfolio of case studies that demonstrate a deep understanding of design systems and successful track record of execution across multiple products and platforms
- Experience leading and managing a Design System team at a similarly sized organization and design systems ‘maturity level’
- Deep expertise in UI/UX craft; passion for visual design, interaction details, typography, accessibility, and pixel perfect deliverables
- Strategic, systems thinker who can work at various altitudes as needed
- Exceptional communication and storytelling skills that allow you to convey the strategic value of design systems to executives and across the organization
- Experience influencing and educating cross-functional teams
- Understanding that managing/leading can also mean actively contributing to team projects
- Technically proficient in building and scaling systems across platforms; from figma to code
- Familiarity with latest developments in design systems and tools; figma, storybook, github etc
- Ability to work in a dynamic environment — balancing rigor and scrappiness.
- High comfort level with ambiguity; openness to critique from other disciplines and curiosity to learn from a spectrum of perspectives.
- Passion for mentoring designers and teaching about design craft and quality
- Experience actively managing designers at different stages of their careers
- Nice-to-have: experience with finance or either the venture capital or private equity space
- $225,000 - $300,000 [San Francisco, CA; Santa Clara, CA, New York, NY]
- $202,000 - $270,000 point in [Seattle, WA]
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, please connect with the recruiter via email. 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.
Important Security Notice for CandidatesOur company has been targeted by individuals creating fake domains similar to ours to scam prospects and candidates. Please note that all official communications from us will come from an @carta.com domain. Be cautious of any requests for sensitive information or payments outside of our official channels. For more information about this type of scam, please review the guidelines provided by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). If you encounter any suspicious activity, please report it immediately to recruiting-systems@carta.com .
Awards and AcknowledgementsCompanies 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 .
Interested in data privacy? Check out our policies on Privacy and CA Candidate Privacy.
Job Summary
JOB TYPE
Full Time
INDUSTRY
Investment Management
SALARY
$160k-196k (estimate)
POST DATE
06/10/2024
EXPIRATION DATE
07/07/2024
WEBSITE
carta.com
HEADQUARTERS
ARDMORE, PA
SIZE
50 - 100
FOUNDED
2012
CEO
ROBERT WINTERLY
REVENUE
$5M - $10M
INDUSTRY
Investment Management
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About CARTA
Were on a mission to create more owners. By building the global ownership management platform, were changing how companies, investors, law firms, and employees manage equity. Our team is focused on converging private and public markets and mapping and connecting the global ownership network. We all believe we are building a generational company, that will change how ownership and finance works. Want to join our team? Look at our open positions here: https://boards.greenhouse.io/carta https://vimeo.com/273958418
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