Senior Principal Product Designer

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 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 

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.