Strategic Account Executive - Private Markets, Europe

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London, England, GBR
Hybrid
Senior level
Fintech • Software
Carta develops purpose-built software that transforms traditional accounting into a powerful growth engine.
The Role
Owns the full enterprise sales lifecycle for Carta’s fund administration and private capital technology products across Europe. Responsibilities include strategic prospecting, consultative selling, stakeholder engagement, pipeline management, negotiation, closing large contracts, developing sales plans, building industry relationships, and collaborating with Delivery and R&D teams. The role targets venture capital, private equity, and private credit funds and may involve supporting industry events and conferences.
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The Company You’ll Join

Carta is the connected platform and AI-native ecosystem for private capital. Built to replace fragmented tools with a single system of record, Carta brings together the software, services, and legal infrastructure that founders use to manage equity, fund managers use to run administration and reporting, and legal teams use to close transactions. Trusted by 55,000 companies and 1.8M+ equity holders in 160+ countries, and 10,000 funds and SPVs representing $250B+ in assets under management, Carta is transforming how private capital operates. Recognized by Fortune, Forbes, Fast Company, Inc. and Great Places to Work.

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

The Team You’ll Work With

We're looking for talented salespeople  to join our  Investors team, focused on selling fund administration. Our customers are primarily Venture Capital, Private Equity and Private Credit Funds.  Carta's platform allows these clients to track and manage their portfolios while liaising with their investors.

As a member of the Investors sales team, you’ll introduce top tier clients to our wide range of (Carta built) product offerings, including Fund Administration (via Carta’s event base accounting general ledger), digital KYC, portfolio management, reporting and analytics, investor management, investor portal, valuations, data collection, and CRM. 

Carta offers a tech-focused investor portal to both the fund GPs/Admins and also their investors/LPs, as well as their portfolio companies with our cap table offering. Carta has developed an equity ownership management platform exclusively for private capital firms and their portfolio company management teams. This includes the first and only Advanced Scenario Modeling tool capable of handling the most complex waterfalls, empowering deal teams, valuations teams and management teams to get out of excel and improve accuracy and time to insight for some of their most important strategic decisions.

The Problems You’ll Solve 
  • Communicate the business impact of our full product offerings to key decision makers
  • Demonstrate ability to influence through persuasion, negotiation, and consensus-building to identify and sell new opportunities
  • Own sales cycles that could  be  up to 12+ months
  • Understand customer needs and requirements and act as a trusted business advisor
  • Build and expand a network across the industry to enhance Carta's visibility and create new business opportunities
  • Drive revenue through strategic outbound prospecting
  • Own the entire sales lifecycle, from lead generation to close
  • Working with Delivery and R&D teams to devise the optimum operating model for prospects
  • Develop a comprehensive sales strategy and sales plan that ensures consistent achievement of goals over the short and long-term
  • Supporting the Business Development team at industry events, conferences, and seminars (as required)
About You
  • Bachelor's degree 
  • 8+ years of sales experience
  • Ideally at least 5 years selling into private capital funds at a Fund Administrator (or Fund Administration adjacent company)
  • You have experience with, and potentially existing contacts within, the private capital markets community (lawyers, investors, bankers, accountants, etc.) as well as within the General Partner / Limited Partner / PortCo communities. 
  • Understanding  of fund structures (Private Equity, Venture Capital, or Private Credit)
  • Experience managing a pipeline and closing large contracts
  • Proven ability to execute, especially negotiation and closing enterprise deals
  • Intellectually curious, fast learner
  • Articulate, poised, and concise
  • Flexible and resilient
  • Growth mindset
Nice-to-Haves
  • Experience in venture capital, private equity, institutional investing, wealth management, or high growth fintech
  • Relevant sales experience in a SaaS or financial services organization

Disclosures:

  • 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, please connect with the talent partner via email. 
  • Carta uses E-Verify in the United States for employment authorization. See the E-Verify and Department of Justice websites for more details.
  • For information on our data privacy policies, see Privacy, CA Candidate Privacy, and Brazil Transparency Report.
  • Please note that all official communications from us will come from an @carta.com or @carta-external.com domain. Report any contact from unapproved domains to [email protected].

Skills Required

  • Bachelor's degree
  • 8+ years of sales experience
  • At least 5 years selling into private capital funds at a fund administrator or adjacent company
  • Experience and potentially existing contacts within the private capital markets community and General Partner, Limited Partner, and portfolio company communities
  • Understanding of private equity, venture capital, or private credit fund structures
  • Experience managing a pipeline and closing large contracts
  • Proven ability to negotiate and close enterprise deals
  • Experience in venture capital, private equity, institutional investing, wealth management, or high-growth fintech
  • Relevant sales experience in a SaaS or financial services organization

Carta Compensation & Benefits Highlights

The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Carta and has not been reviewed or approved by Carta.

  • Fair & Transparent Compensation Compensation is portrayed as market-competitive in many roles, with particularly strong positioning in engineering and product packages. Pay is also framed as comparatively strong versus other aspects of the overall employee experience.
  • Parental & Family Support Parental leave is positioned as notably generous, with extended paid leave for birthing parents and paid bonding leave for all parents. Family-building support is also emphasized through fertility treatment and egg-freezing coverage.
  • Leave & Time Off Breadth Time off is structured with a required minimum amount of paid leave and then additional flexibility through an unlimited PTO and sick-time approach. This design is intended to ensure time off is actually taken while preserving flexibility beyond the minimum.

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The Company
HQ: San Francisco, CA
1,902 Employees
Year Founded: 2012

What We Do

Carta develops purpose-built software that transforms traditional accounting into a powerful growth engine. Carta’s world-class fund administration platform supports nearly 7,000 funds and SPVs, and represents nearly $130B in assets under management in venture capital and private equity. Trusted by more than 40,000 companies, Carta also helps private businesses in over 160 countries manage their cap tables, valuations, taxes, equity programs, compensation, and more. Together, Carta is setting a new standard as the end-to-end platform for private markets. Our best-in-class solution for fund management seamlessly integrates investor and portfolio company insights via a suite of tools designed ground-up to support the strategic impact of the fund CFO. Carta has been included on the Fortune Best Large Workplaces in Financial Services and Insurance list, Forbes’ list of the World's Best Cloud Companies, Fast Company's Most Innovative list, and Inc.'s Fastest-Growing Private Companies list. For more information, visit carta.com.

Why Work With Us

Carta is a place where everyone can be the best version of themselves. We're a team of unconventional builders who's focus is to create infrastructure for innovators. Join our team and help us to create more owners.

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