The Team You’ll Work With

This role will lead software and data engineering teams within the newly formed Data pillar. We are responsible for the core data platform for our internal analytics and data science users as well as engineering teams building Portfolio Insights and Valuations platforms. It’s a unique opportunity to straddle data and software engineering worlds and having responsibility to build customer facing products as well as solutions for internal stakeholders. In addition to continuing developing what is already an established set of products, we are tasked with building new data-based products. The ideal candidate will be equally excited about building brand new solutions as well as scaling existing ones. 

Importantly, you’ll find a higher than “normal” level of transparency, trust and autonomy - something Cartans (Carta employees) have celebrated since the earliest days of the startup.

The Problems You’ll Solve

As a Director of Engineering, Data you will have a unique opportunity to work horizontally across the company to solve data challenges as well as build products that our customers benefit from. Here are a few examples of the problems you will be solving:

• Improve performance: Your team is a reflection of you, your values, and your support. Your team will need regular mentorship, advice and feedback to operate effectively. Contributing to this space along with your leadership team, is part of effective management at Carta.
• Establish best practices: Engineering managers are the last line of defense for quality control, best practices and effective design strategies. Helping your team, and peer teams, navigate these challenges is core to the problem space for managers.
• People: Carta has a great team today. We’re growing, and that means hiring. You will work with other engineering leaders in the company to discover, interview, and recruit great team members and build them up into the next all star player.
• Build new products: We have a unique opportunity to bring new ideas to the market by harnessing the unique insights that we have. Empowering your team to build quick prototypes and test our our hypothesis while maintaining quality of our deliverables will be key to our success
• Best in class data warehouse: In order to make data driven decisions we need to have accurate and scalable data solutions. Your team is responsible for making our data infrastructure best in class, building core data marts for cross company analysis, implementing data quality alerting solutions, and much more.

The Impact You'll Have

There is no greater representation of the impact that you will have, than the impact your team will have over the course of your tenure. To that end, your major focus will be on making the Carta data platform something that accelerates the growth of Carta’s data products  and internal analytics.

About You

We’re looking for someone exceptional in this role, and we’re willing to take our time to find this person. Ideally, you’re a human - but we’ll avoid making any qualifications on your species. Instead, we’ll talk about what inspires us about you:

• You care deeply about software and data, and the leverage that combination brings. You use your past experience building software to show your team the way in which they can improve our customer’s leverage.
• You are energized by, and capable of, super-charging the careers of those that report to you. You’ve been able to help mentor more junior engineers, and support more senior engineers in reaching their potential. You’ve directly managed teams for at least several years.
• You’ve expanded the worldview of your teams, celebrated diversity of thought and background, and tied it all back through successful product launches in your past.
• You recognize the power of ownership, and have lived examples of where ownership played central roles in your career- through software and through business.
• You are willing and capable of getting in the trenches alongside your fellow engineers and reports. You lead by example, and take pride in your work.
• You are exceptionally technical. You can describe complex ideas simply. You are just as capable working toward a long term roadmap as you are jumping into a fire to solve a customer's problem 5 minutes from now.

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.