Head of People Development

The Company Youll 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 65000 companies in 160 countries Cartas platform of software and services lays the groundwork so you can build invest and scale with confidence.

Cartas Fund Administration platform supports 9000 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 dont work for Private Funds. Private capital markets need a comprehensive software solution to replace outdated spreadsheets and fragmented service providers. Cartas software for the Office of the Fund CFO does just that - its a new category of software to make private markets look more like public markets - a connected ERP for private capital.

For more information about our offices and culture check out our Carta careers page.

The Problems Youll Solve

As Carta grows in complexity and scale our ability to develop and empower talent must evolve at the same paceif not faster. Your mission will be to restart Cartas People Development engine by building from the ground up with AI at the core of how we learn and grow. As the foundational expert in this space youll have a high impact in defining and driving the strategy for learning and development with speed creativity and a deep focus on team-based learning experiences.

Youll define what growth looks like at Cartahow Cartans build mission-critical skills adapt to emerging technologies like AI and rise to new challenges in their roles. From tech fluency to leadership readiness youll lay the foundation for a culture of continuous learning that is scalable and deeply connected to business impact.

In this role youll:

• Develop Cartas AI enablement roadmap: identify critical capabilities impacted by AI and architect learning experiences to build confidence competence and curiosity across the org
• Be the pioneer in Cartas efforts to retool our managers for the future by designing targeted AI-informed learning journeys to help managers grow alongside their teams and navigate a fast-changing work environment
• Build and design development strategies that support growth across key moments in the employee lifecyclefrom onboarding and role transitions to performance conversations promotions and leadership readiness
• Partner closely with technical business and executive teams to identify skill gaps and capability-building opportunities across the org
• Co-create career development frameworks in partnership with HRBPs empowering Cartans with clarity transparency and a strong sense of ownership over their path
• Select and implement learning platforms or tools but particularly those that leverage AI or adaptive learning for scalable personalized delivery
• Establish clear feedback loops and success metrics to measure participation learning transfer and impact
• Create learning programs that emphasize real-time enablement over one-size-fits-all contentdriven by live team needs experimentation and impact
• Move fast and be scrappyprioritizing high-impact nimble solutions over polished perfection in service of delivering what the business and people need when they need it
• Cultivate a culture of continuous learning driven by team-based collaboration peer coaching internal knowledge-sharing and talent enablement systems
• Serve as a thought partner to the business on how learning feedback performance and employee experience intersectand what we can co-design together

The Team Youll Work With

This is a senior Individual Contributor (IC) role that sits within Cartas People Team and reports to our VP of Talent. As the first hire focused exclusively on People Development youll be the principal architect of this function with the autonomy to define our learning philosophy architecture and long-term strategy.

Youll operate as a senior cross-functional partner collaborating closely with Talent HR People Ops and Total Rewards. You will also work directly with leaders across the business to create nimble relevant development programs embedded in the realities of each teams work and aligned with the future of how we grow collaborate and lead at Carta.

About You

You are a builder and a visionary who gets energy from designing something that didnt exist beforeand then watching people thrive because of it. You bring a deep understanding of learning and development best practices a forward-looking point of view on AI and a strategic business mindset that grounds everything you build in real organizational challenges.

Youve led complex development programs at scale guided cross-functional teams through change and brought new skills and ways of working into organizations. Youre skilled at aligning senior stakeholders delivering with craft and intention and balancing vision with practical hands-on execution. Most importantly youre excited to be a part of a bold new chapter of learning at Cartaone that puts AI capability people growth and business impact at the center.

What you bring:

• 10 years of relevant experience in Learning & Development People Development Organizational Design or related fields
• Proven success designing and scaling learning strategies for fast-growing high-performing teams.
• Strong perspective on how AI is transforming the workplace and an ambition to help people work successfully in an AI-enabled world
• Mastery in program design stakeholder management and internal consultingespecially with technical functions and senior leaders
• Comfort building new things in ambiguous environments with strong project management skills and an ownership mindset
• A coaching-oriented approach to facilitation team development and building a feedback culture.
• Experience selecting launching and managing L&D tools or platforms especially those that leverage AI or behavioral data
• Passion for making learning inclusive accessible and actionable for all

Bonus: Coaching certification or experience with facilitation frameworks and personality assessments like DiSC Hogan or Gallup CliftonStrengths
At Carta youre not just an employee. Youre a builder who is creating infrastructure that accelerates innovation and empowers more ownership. Cartans are helpful relentless unconventional and kind; representing Cartas 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.

Salary

Cartas 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) range for this role is:
$172000 - $215000 in New York and San Francisco

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

Disclosures:

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