The Company You’ll Join
Carta is a platform that helps people manage equity, build businesses, and invest in the companies of tomorrow. Our mission is to create more owners.
Carta is trusted by more than 30,000 companies and over half a million employees in nearly 150 countries to manage cap tables, compensation, and valuations. Carta also supports over 5,000 funds representing over $100B in assets under administration with their venture capital solutions. Carta’s liquidity solutions have returned $13B to shareholders in secondary transactions. Today Carta’s platform manages over two trillion dollars in equity for nearly two million people globally. Companies and funds like Canva, 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. and a Muse VIBE Award winner in the Vacation and Time Off category.
For more information about our offices and culture, check out our Carta careers page.
The Team You’ll Work With
The Carta Liquidity team is looking for creative problem solvers to work on a greenfield initiative to build a marketplace for private securities. The team you will be joining is tasked with building a platform to help investors, founders, and employees transact in private securities.
As a Private Capital Markets Associate you’ll be responsible for contributing to products and services for and engaging with investors on Carta Liquidity. Specifically, you will support the sourcing, cultivation and maintenance of institutional investor relationships, and the generation of deal flow for the marketplace. The ideal candidate has outstanding organizational and technical skills, a foundational understanding of private equity markets, and the ability to independently steer internal business projects.
You will partner closely with senior members of our go-to-market team to manage investor relationships, track clients, and execute secondary transactions. You will be expected to enhance operational efficiencies, track business metrics, provide research and insights, contribute to strategic projects, and generate assets for engagement with clients and prospects concerning their broader capital markets needs. You will work within a dynamic and cohesive team that collaborates across product and engineering, data science, legal, compliance, and technology.
The Problems You’ll Solve
- Build and sustain relationships with internal and external clients by understanding needs and providing solutions.
- Plan and contribute to the strategic expansion of Carta Liquidity’s investor coverage base.
- Enhance and maintain client databases and business metrics.
- Identify and develop data-driven tools to increase internal and external efficiencies in the private secondary markets.
- Help prepare, review, and deliver deal-related materials to execute investor and company-sponsored transactions.
- Communicate with cross-functional teams to ensure on-time delivery of liquidity transactions and a high level of customer service.
- Develop new creative ideas and recommendations for product offerings, including market insights and investor relations, and identify cross-product opportunities.
About You
- 2+ years of experience in a finance or business background, particularly on the client facing side, with experience in private placements, sales and trading, or capital markets advisory
- Expertise in fundamental analysis.
- Ability to work in a fast-paced, team-based environment with minimal supervision.
- Rigorous eye for detail.
- Strong communication and networking skills.
- Impeccable research, quantitative and analytical skills, especially in explaining market events.
- Strong project management and presentation skills.
- Ability to implement efficient processes and organize, track and prioritize overlapping tasks and assignments.
- Proficiency in Excel, Powerpoint, Bloomberg, Factset, Capital IQ, or other data service provider.
Nice-to-haves:
- Working knowledge of cap tables.
- Series 7 and 63 a plus
Salary
Carta’s compensation package includes a market competitive salary, equity for all full time roles, exceptional benefits, and, for applicable roles, commissions plans. If you are located in New York, New York, our minimum cash compensation (salary + commission if applicable) range for this role is $106,250 - $123,750 salary point in New York. Final offers may vary from the amount listed based on geography, candidate experience and expertise, and other factors.
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, connect with us via email at [email protected]. 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.
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