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# General Counsel at Sydecar

- **Company:** Sydecar
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA
- **Compensation:** $300k–$330k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-09-10
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-23
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/sydecar/08eea4c7-022a-462c-84cb-01bce68b9c10

## Job description

## About Us

Sydecar is on a mission to transform the world of private markets. Our goal is to make these markets more accessible, transparent, and liquid, and we're achieving this by revolutionizing the way investment vehicles are created and executed.

At Sydecar, we're not just a platform; we're a trusted partner in venture capital. We're dedicated to simplifying and standardizing the private investing experience, empowering capital allocators to discover and support visionary entrepreneurs who are shaping the future.

Our platform is designed with ease and efficiency in mind. We take care of all the behind-the-scenes tasks, from automating banking, ensuring compliance, handling contracts, managing taxes, to streamlining reporting. This leaves investors the freedom to concentrate on what matters most: making valuable deals and nurturing meaningful relationships.

Join us at Sydecar, as we lead the charge in revolutionizing private investing.

## About the opportunity

The core mission of the executive team is to execute an ambitious roadmap to build the most intuitive, compliant, and stable method of executing alternative asset investments. Our General Counsel will keep our products compliant while helping us push the boundaries of what's possible, finding the path to yes on novel product ideas rather than defaulting to no. As General Counsel you will span legal research, thought leadership, and product innovation, adding value across every aspect of our operation. Reporting to the CEO and serving as a strategic advisor to the CEO and VP of Product, you will ensure our suite of products and services meets the highest standards of federal, state, and international compliance, while exploring creative ways to reduce friction for our users and keep our team on the cutting edge of the industry. This is a hybrid role based in San Francisco or New York City with in-office attendance of two to three days per week.

## What you'll be doing

- Lead, manage, and continue building a multidisciplinary legal and compliance team.
- Analyze legal issues through risk assessment, risk management, and pragmatic decision-making lenses and provide actionable solutions, rather than simply identifying areas of potential legal risk.
- Work on a range of matters such as securities and regulatory compliance, negotiating, reviewing, and drafting commercial agreements.
- Advise executive members on changes in law, regulation, and best practices that impact the business.
- Build and maintain a referenceable knowledge base to educate our stakeholders with respect to: Why our products are designed the way they are. Why do we use specific language in our product. What laws affect the business.
- Contribute directly to innovative fund structures and shape Sydecar’s current and future products.
- Track evolving regulatory frameworks affecting alternative asset investing and, where appropriate, engage with industry groups and policymakers to help shape them.
- Field and respond to external inquiries regarding our business.
- Manage outside counsel, as necessary.

## What we're looking for

- Experience building and scaling legal teams inside fast-growing organizations.
- Experience partnering closely with product teams, where legal input directly shaped product decisions and outcomes.
- Strong written and verbal communicator who can flex between board-level summaries and in-the-weeds deal negotiation.
- Excellent strategic thinking, solid judgment, and the willingness to work with business partners to make decisions that are grounded in a practical application of the law, the technology, and the business goals.
- Ability to work under pressure in a fast-paced, innovative, rapidly changing environment, and get up to speed on new areas of law quickly and effectively, and comfortably in a startup business environment.
- A JD from an ABA-accredited law school and an active bar license in good standing with 10+ years of legal practice experience and extensive in-house experience in the FinTech or venture capital space.
- Strongly preferred: deep expertise in the range of securities laws impacting venture funds and FinTech platforms, including the Securities Act, Exchange Act, Investment Company Act, Investment Advisers Act, and FINRA Rules.

Sydecar’s values Our values are important to the way we live and work at Sydecar. They guide our priorities, behaviors and interactions. Be Committed As a team, we rise to meet challenges and recognize that we become stronger and develop character when facing adversity. Be Excellent We measure our success not just by what we achieve, but by how we achieve it—through integrity, creativity, elegance, and a commitment to continuous improvement. Excellence is not just doing things well—it's looking for ways to do them better. Be Humble Humility is our key to personal and professional growth. We appreciate that great ideas can come from anywhere, regardless of seniority, pedigree, or experience. We care more about collective outcomes than who gets credit or who does what. We try to not let our ego cloud our judgment. Win Together Winning is no accident. It is the result of collective hard work, perseverance, sacrifice, and most of all, loving what we do. Winning requires that we give extra—sometimes winning calls for late nights or extra effort, and we show up for clients and each other with urgency and heart. While excellence is a journey, winning is a destination.

Sydecar is committed to the principle of equal employment opportunity for all employees and to providing employees with a work environment free of discrimination and harassment. All employment decisions at Sydecar are based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, without regard to race, color, religion or belief, national, social or ethnic origin, sex (including pregnancy), age, physical, mental or sensory disability, HIV Status, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, marital, civil union or domestic partnership status, past or present military service, family medical history or genetic information, family or parental status, or any other status protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where we operate. Sydecar will not tolerate discrimination or harassment based on any of these characteristics. Sydecar encourages applicants of all ages.

## About Sydecar

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Sydecar provides a frictionless deal execution platform that automates banking, compliance, contracts, and reporting for venture fund and syndicate managers, enabling them to form and manage Special Purpose Vehicles (SPVs) and funds.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series A; total funding ~$35.6M as of November 2024)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, USA (with hubs in New York and Seattle)
- **Founded**: 2021
- **Founders**: Nik Talreja (Co-Founder & CEO)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Private market infrastructure / Venture capital and private equity enablement
- **Target customers**: B2B – emerging and established venture fund managers, syndicate leads, and general partners (GPs)
- **Mission**: Build the infrastructure that powers private markets.

## Products & Services
- **Sydecar Platform (SaaS)**: An all-in-one deal execution platform that handles SPV and fund formation, investor onboarding, banking, compliance (KYC/AML), contract generation, tax reporting, and capital calls. The platform is designed to eliminate back-office overhead so managers can focus on sourcing deals and building investor relationships.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed
- **Key Metric**: $1.1B in assets under administration (as of mid-2025); $1.0M annual revenue (LinkedIn estimate)
- **Total Funding**: ~$35.6M across multiple rounds, including:
  - Seed round (2021) led by TechU Ventures
  - Seed round (April 2022): $8.3M from 21 investors
  - Venture round (January 2023): $8.1M
  - Series A (November 2024): $11.0M led by Deciens Capital
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Deciens Capital, TechU Ventures; leadership includes alumni from Cooley, AngelList, Citi, and SS&C
- **Growth Signals**: 800+ deal sponsors (GPs), 20,000+ LP investments, 1,000+ investment vehicles; headcount of 77 employees with +1.2% monthly growth; 21 active job postings (as of mid-2025)

## Competitive Advantages
- **Deep automation of the full SPV lifecycle** – banking, compliance, legal, and reporting are bundled into one platform, reducing setup time to next business day.
- **Trusted by thousands of venture managers** – the platform has processed billions in assets, signaling strong product-market fit and network effects.
- **Long runway and healthy unit economics** – several years of cash runway, allowing the company to invest without near-term fundraising pressure.
- **Standards-first approach** – built for professional investors with compliance and security at the core.

## Strategic Focus
- Continue scaling the platform to serve a larger share of private market activity, moving from SPVs to full fund administration.
- Deepen integrations with banking, tax, and legal partners to further reduce friction for GPs.
- Expand the team across engineering, product, sales, and operations to support rapid customer growth.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Tight-knit, values-driven team with principles of “Be Excellent,” “Be Humble,” “Be Committed,” and “Win Together.” Inclusive environment where every voice matters.
- **Work model**: Hybrid – hubs in San Francisco, New York, and Seattle; typically 2 days on-site, 3 days remote.
- **Benefits**: Competitive salary + bonus, stock options, 401k with 4% employer match, generous medical/dental/vision, parental leave, PTO, annual professional development stipend, wellness stipend, workspace allotment, commuter benefits, life insurance, personal data plan reimbursement.
- **Engineering culture**: Uses modern stack (TypeScript, React, PostgreSQL, Google Cloud, Terraform); staff engineers and senior roles are actively hiring. Emphasis on solving hard problems together.

## Sources
1. [sydecar.io](https://sydecar.io/)
2. [sydecar.io/careers](https://sydecar.io/careers)
3. [sydecar.io/about](https://sydecar.io/about)
4. [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/sydecar-sydecario)
5. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/sydecario)

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