Company Secretarial Associate
Carta
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 unlock the power of equity ownership for more people in more places.
Carta is trusted by more than 40,000 companies and over two million people in nearly 160 countries to manage cap tables, compensation, and valuations. Carta also supports nearly 7,000 funds and SPVs, and represents nearly $130B in assets under administration. Carta's tender offer solutions have returned $14B to shareholders in secondary transactions. Today, Carta’s platform manages nearly three trillion dollars in equity globally.
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The Team You’ll Work With
Carta Europe is simplifying access to Venture Capital by providing angel investors, startup founders, and fund managers the tools and infrastructure needed through our online admin platform. Whether you are creating a deal by deal syndicate, pooling angel investors into a SPV, or launching a Venture Capital fund - our platform helps clients set up and raise from investors in just a few clicks.
You’ll be joining the CoSec team as an Associate. The CoSec team is responsible for ensuring that all products are methodically adhering to best-in-class corporate governance. The team is relatively new so you’ll play a pivotal role in shaping how we grow and develop within Carta. Day-to-day duties include preparation of legal templates, helping our clients navigate corporate legal tasks, supporting the formation teams with investment closings, as well as continuously improving our CoSec processes and digital solutions.
The Problems You’ll Solve
- We are at the intersection of law, regulation, tax and finance: how do you deliver exceptional customer experience without the complexity or red tape that your competitors hide behind?
- Turning professional services into products is challenging: how do you productize our intellectual property so that we can deliver the fastest solution with even higher quality outcomes?
- We automate investment structures in Venture Capital: how can you scale processes so that each container is as seamless as possible to maintain?
The Impact You’ll Have
You will have the opportunity to help us build out a product-first corporate governance framework, whilst working with the most talented venture capitalists, fund managers and dealmakers in the world. Your work will cement our large portfolio of wealth containers, and ensure continued good standing.
About You
- Hold at least a Bachelor’s degree in Law (UK or international)
- Minimum 2 years of experience working in corporate law, corporate governance, or corporate secretarial
- You have a product mindset and are keen to introduce digital innovations to corporate governance
- Exposure to private equity and/or venture capital is a bonus but not required
- Client success sparks joy! You are proactive and resourceful in delivering positive outcomes every single day
- High attention to detail: written and quantitative. You must be confident navigating your way around complex legal documents
- Strong prioritization skills and experience working in a fast paced, ambiguous environment. You can manage competing demands, while persevering to solve challenging problems
- You are a polymath and are not afraid of working on different challenges at the same time
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 recruiter via email. 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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Awards and Acknowledgements
Companies and funds like 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., a Muse VIBE Award winner in the Vacation and Time Off category and certified as a Great Place to Work.
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