Description
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.
The Problems You’ll Solve
As our company and our industry are in a period of immense change, your job is to drive clarity through noise. Namely, your responsibilities fall into the following buckets:
Run the Product Org Rhythm of Business
You drive operational activities for the Product organization. You set and own the cadences and forums that form the pulse of the organization; at Carta, these include R&D Reviews, Leadership meetings, organization-wide All Hands, and more. In addition, you own the underlying infrastructure to support the organization including resource planning and budgets.
Execute on Leadership Direction
You are an audience in executive forums which lets you understand what's being decided, and make sure what comes next actually gets done. This means cascading decisions through the organization, helping the team distinguish exceptions from the rule, and surfacing to the CPO what she needs to know before she asks.
Create Leverage on Strategic Projects
Own the connective tissue on high-ambiguity, cross-functional projects. This has included integration readouts for acquisitions, helping new teams onboard into Carta, and supporting high-coordination product rollouts. This bucket is episodic but consistently high priority and getting it right often determines whether a product outcome succeeds or stalls.
Act as a Sounding Board for the Leadership Team
Ask the questions that help people arrive at cleaner answers faster. Have the hard conversations where they need to be had. The goal is to consistently raise the quality bar across the product org.
Be the Voice of the Product Org Across Carta
Own the inputs and outputs that connect the Product org to the rest of Carta. Make sure the product story is being told internally. This includes an ongoing partnership with PMM, Solutions Engineering and Sales, Finance, and others. The shape of this work will shift over time, but the need to own it won't.
The Team You’ll Work With
You’ll be the Chief of Staff to the Chief Product Officer, Vrushali Paunikar. This is a highly visible and collaborative role that will be core to the operation of the Product organization and to our CPO’s day to day. Product and design role up to the product org. In practice, product, design, engineering and delivery (DRD) roll up to the CPO and CEO, Henry Ward. As the Chief of Staff, you are the main point of contact between DRD and the rest of the company.
About You
At Carta, you’re not just an employee. You’re a builder who is creating infrastructure that accelerates innovation and empowers more ownership. Cartans are helpful, relentless, unconventional and kind; representing Carta’s Identity Traits. They work collaboratively and cross functionally to challenge the status quo; working towards a common goal of creating more owners in the private markets.
Successful candidates will have extremely high EQ and IQ, with an ability to see the big picture while having an obsession with the details. Please apply if you identify with the following:
Operator at scale
8+ years of experience in Product, Business Operations, Strategy, or a Chief of Staff function , ideally in a high-growth tech company
Execution credibility
A track record of running complex cross-functional programs, not just tracking them
Relationship-driven
Strong EQ and the ability to build trust across all levels of the organization, including executives.
Proactive Judgment
Comfort with ambiguity and an instinct for identifying what matters before anyone else names it
Clear communicator
Exceptional communication skills , you can write a crisp exec brief and give sharp verbal feedback in the same afternoon
Context-aware
Ability to hold context across many workstreams and know when to push, when to pause, and when to escalate
Influence without authority
Presence and credibility in the room, even when you don't hold the title