Senior Principal Product Designer San Francisco, CA; Santa Clara, CA; Seattle, WA NY

The Company You’ll Join

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.

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.

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 Private capital markets need a comprehensive software solution to replace outdated spreadsheets and fragmented service providers.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.

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.

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

• 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

• 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
• 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

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…