Public Policy Analyst

Policy is infrastructure as well. It can drive innovation or bind its growth. It can incentivize entrepreneurship, expand investment, and facilitate the experimentation that leads to new innovations and opportunities. It can also impede the launch of an innovative startup, restrict a new product or service, or hinder the development of a company as it raises capital and transitions from private to public ownership. Policy affects nearly every aspect of the innovation ecosystem. Carta advocates for a policy framework that fuels its benefits.

The Analyst -- Public Policy will collaborate across the External Affairs and Marketing function, our Platform Team (corporate function), and our Business Units.

Read more here about Carta’s five key policy priorities that aim to make innovation and ownership core to our economy.

The Analyst will help provide leverage to the entire Policy function as it supports Carta.  This includes project management, coalition building, policy analysis and formation, event execution, and administrative support.  This role will be as big as you make it, and will serve as a jumping off point for your career at Carta. We expect this opportunity to provide the foundation and business acumen for a successful transition into multiple disciplines within Carta. In this role, you will:  

• Inform and support the execution of strategic public policy objectives, including shaping our strategy; tracking legislative and regulatory developments, our progress, timelines, and deliverables; preparing for meetings, conference calls, and webinars; and executing on next steps with internal and external partners
• Monitor key policy developments at state and federal level, communicating issues and our actions to stakeholders
• Structure execution plans on public policy initiatives, coalition building, and external events
• Strategically manage relationship engagements for CEO, Platform team, and Business Units
• Develop written briefing and report materials for internal and external audiences, including communications with the Hill, via newsletters, and other distribution channels
• Coordinate across coalitions and plan strategic events
• Help ensure compliance on lobbying, ethics, and political action committee rules and procedures
• Provide administrative support
• Identify ways to improve our process, communication, tracking frameworks, and results

Successful candidates will have high EQ and IQ, with an ability to see the big picture while having an obsession with the details. Please apply if you identify with the following:

• Experience facing the Hill, understanding of the legislative process, and an interest in capital markets, finance, and tax
• A passion for process, strong project management skills, and the ability to coordinate across multiple stakeholders
• Thrives on bringing structure to fluid dynamics and executing on projects with multiple stakeholders
• Flexibility to undertake a variety of tasks to help advance Carta’s mission
• Excellent verbal and written communicator, with the ability to write for clarity and influence
• Organizational skills, with excellent follow-through and a positive attitude in a dynamic work environment
• Intellectual curiosity, openness to feedback, and a team-player mentality
• Relentless focus on execution and results
• Ability to staff principal-level meetings
• Possess an ownership mentality with bias toward action