Senior Principal Product Designer

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. As a Sr Principal Product Designer, you’ll work to:

• Design for the most complex and strategic customers in private equity and private markets
• Elevate the future of Carta’s product experiences through design-led thinking
• Scale Carta’s platform to support AI native experiences, nuanced workflows, edge cases, and regulatory complexity
• Define system-level experiences that span products, teams, and customer archetypes
• Raise the bar of design at Carta

You will design for a broad range of users, including CFOs, fund administrators, investors, founders, legal and tax partners, and Carta’s internal service teams.

The Team You'll Work With

You’ll be joining our Design organization to shape the following:

1. Product Strategy & Vision

• Shape and influence product strategy through design leadership, not just execution
• Partner closely with Product and Engineering leaders to define initiative-level and system-level direction
• Develop, pitch, and defend design direction with clarity and conviction to senior and executive audiences
• Translate ambiguous problem spaces into frameworks, models, and strategic recommendations
• Practice radical simplification of complexity with a bias to shipping fast to learn and iterate

2. Design Excellence & Craft

• Lead end-to-end design on complex initiatives—from discovery through execution
• Produce and guide high-quality flows, interaction models, prototypes, and polished UI
• Seamlessly navigate between strategic systems thinking and pixel perfect design
• Set and uphold a high bar for UX, interaction design, and visual craft
• Advocate for thoughtful design decisions that balance user needs, technical constraints, and business goals

3. Leadership & Influence

• Lead by doing—modeling strong design thinking, decision-making, and craft
• Mentor senior designers through critique, feedback, and design reviews
• Influence cross-functional teams to adopt bold, coherent design solutions
• Contribute to building a strong, human-centered design culture at Carta

About You

We’re looking for someone who is energized by complexity and motivated by impact. They bring curiosity, a compulsion to ‘make’ and masterful communication to all interactions. In our search, we’re prioritizing:

• 12+ years of product design experience, with at least 4 years focused on solving complex, enterprise SaaS challenges
• A portfolio demonstrating system-level thinking and strategic design impact
• Exceptional UI/UX craft, with strong opinions on interaction details and visual quality
• Demonstrated experience and proficiency with AI-powered design tools and an understanding of how to integrate emerging technologies into the design process for efficiency and innovation.
• Proven ability to influence product direction without formal authority
• Outstanding communication and storytelling skills
• 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
• A love of getting hands dirty and leading from the front
• Nice-to-have: experience with finance, venture capital or private equity

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:

• $235,600 - $294,500 in [Seattle, WA]
• $248,000 - $310,000 in [San Francisco, CA; Santa Clara, CA; New York, NY]

Final offers may vary from the amount listed based on geography, candidate experience and expertise, and other factors.