--- title: 'Product Designer at Sydecar' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/product-designer-sydecar-new-york-2v13x24yhyn6' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-09' --- # Product Designer at Sydecar - **Company:** Sydecar - **Location:** New York, NY - **Compensation:** $140k–$150k - **Employment:** full-time - **Work type:** hybrid - **Posted:** 2026-08-24 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-09 - **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/sydecar/23c77c9c-00a9-49ea-98f8-0364741f79e1 ## 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 ROLE We're hiring a Product Designer to own the end-to-end design features and experiences as we scale our product experience. This is a high-ownership, high-execution role for a designer who wants to continue building strong fundamentals: taking a feature from problem framing through shipped experience, working within an established design system, and partnering closely with product, engineering, and stakeholders. You’ll play a central role in shaping user experiences through deep user research, strong design judgment, and exceptional communication. Our product operates in a regulated environment, serving a broad range of customers from first-time investors and deal organizers to large venture capital firms. Success in this role requires balancing compliance and regulatory constraints with delivering a best-in-class, intuitive experience for complex financial workflows. 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 DO Own features end-to-end - Own UX tradeoffs within your features, and flag scope issues to your PM early - Personally drive design on high-impact initiatives, from discovery through delivery - Simplify complex, regulated workflows into clear, intuitive experiences that create trust for our customers - Maintain a high bar for design quality while operating with startup speed Do feature-level research - Lead research at the feature level and proactively look for opportunities to talk to customers - Partner with Product to test assumptions and validate solutions before and after build - Act as a voice of the customer in roadmap and prioritization discussions as well as on specific initiatives - Bring qualitative and quantitative signal into your design decisions Build craft and technical fluency - Apply and extend Sydecar's design system consistently - Design within platform constraints, and learn to spot them earlier over time - Design systems and flows that support trust, accuracy, and clarity for investors, deal organizers, and internal users Collaborate well - Proactively share and validate work with stakeholders following team best practices - Adapt to feedback gracefully and give focused, articulate critique in return - Build direct working relationships with Product and Engineering partners on your feature Build domain fluency - Learn core SPV workflows: closing, KYC, cap tables - Build a working understanding of how regulatory and compliance constraints shape design decisions - Identify opportunities to create more joyful and high-value experiences ## WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR - 4+ years of product design experience - Exceptionally strong hands-on design skills, with a portfolio demonstrating end-to-end UX ownership and designs - Strong experience designing complex workflows, multi-step processes, or system-heavy products - Comfortable working within and extending an existing design system rather than starting from scratch - Experience partnering directly with Product. Engineers, and stakeholders to scope, define, and ship features - Strong communication skills, and comfortable giving and receiving direct critique - Deep experience leading and applying user research to drive strategy and execution - Curiosity about fintech, regulated industries, or complex/system-heavy products (prior experience a plus, not required) - Data-informed, with a bias toward shipping and iterating ## 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. 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