Strategic Account Executive - Private Markets, Europe

Carta
London, United Kingdom
On-site

Who this role is best for

Strong fit for experienced sales professionals who manage long-term sales cycles and have deep private capital market relationships.

Best fit for

  • Candidates with 8+ years of sales experience and a focus on private capital funds
    — “8+ years of sales experience”
  • Individuals with prior experience selling to fund administrators or adjacent firms
    — “Ideally at least 5 years selling into private capital funds at a Fund Administrator (or Fund Administration adjacent company)”

Things to consider

  • This role involves long sales cycles, potentially requiring patience and persistence
    — “Own sales cycles that could be up to 12+ months”
  • The role demands a high level of technical understanding of fund administration tools
    — “Carta's platform allows these clients to track and manage their portfolios while liaising with their investors”

How to stand out

  • Highlight experience with enterprise deal negotiations and closing large contracts
    — “Experience managing a pipeline and closing large contracts”
  • Demonstrate expertise in fund structures and familiarity with private capital ecosystems
    — “Understanding of fund structures (Private Equity, Venture Capital, or Private Credit)”
  • Emphasize your ability to act as a trusted advisor and influence decision-makers
    — “Understand customer needs and requirements and act as a trusted business advisor”
  • Showcase your network within the private capital community, including GPs, LPs, and bankers
    — “You have experience with, and potentially existing contacts within, the private capital markets community (lawyers, investors, bankers, accountants, etc.)”
  • Demonstrate knowledge of SaaS or financial services sales, if applicable
    — “Relevant sales experience in a SaaS or financial services organization”
Pace · Fast PacedCollaboration · HighAutonomy · MediumDecision Impact · Team

Derived from job-description analysis by Serendipath's career intelligence engine.

What success looks like

  • communicated the business impact of Carta's product offerings
  • managed sales cycles up to 12+ months
  • supported the Business Development team at industry events
Typical background
salesprivate capital markets

Skills & requirements

Required

Sales Cycle ManagementStrategic SellingNetwork BuildingCustomer Relationship ManagementTechnical Understanding Of Private Capital

Preferred

Fund Administration ExperiencePrivate Capital Market Contacts

Stack & domain

SalesFund AdministrationCRMEquity Ownership ManagementScenario ModelingPersuasionNegotiationConsensus-buildingFinancePrivate Capital

About the role

Original posting from Carta via Greenhouse

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 security@carta.com.

Source: Carta careers (Greenhouse)

Similar roles

More roles at Carta