San Francisco, California, United States · Hybrid
$200k–$250k/yr
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 vehic…
Skills: User Experience Design, User Research, Design Systems, UI Design, Product Strategy
New York, New York, United States · Hybrid
$145k–$160k/yr
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 vehic…
Skills: Customer Success Management, Account Management, Renewals Management, Quarterly Business Reviews, API Troubleshooting
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Lead the end-to-end user experience for deal leads and investors while simplifying complex, regulated financial workflows. Act as a player-coach by driving high-impact design initiatives and mentoring junior product designers.
Requires 7+ years of product design experience with a strong portfolio in end-to-end UX and design systems. Experience in regulated markets like fintech or capital markets is strongly preferred.
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.
We’re hiring a Staff User Experience Designer to help redefine our product experience as we scale. This is a high-ownership, high-execution role for a design leader who moves fast, makes strong decisions, and drives work to completion while maintaining an exceptional bar for craft and customer understanding.
You’ll operate as a player coach and a mentor, working alongside a team of 2-3 Product Designers while remaining deeply hands-on. This role may grow into formal people management over time, but the immediate focus is hands-on design leadership and mentorship. You’ll play a central role in shaping product strategy through deep user research, strong design judgment, and close partnership with Product and Engineering.
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.
Lead the evolution of the entire user experience for deal leads, investors, and internal operations teams
Personally drive design on high-impact initiatives, from discovery through delivery
Simplify complex, regulated workflows into clear, intuitive, and experiences that create trust for our customers
Set and maintain a high bar for design quality while operating with startup speed
Lead user research as a first-class input to product strategy and design decisions
Partner closely with Product Managers to define problems, test assumptions, and validate solutions
Act as a strong voice of the customer in roadmap and prioritization discussions as well as on specific initiatives
Synthesize qualitative and quantitative insights into clear, actionable direction
Lead the adoption and evolution of design systems, shared UI components, and design libraries
Partner with Engineering and Product to ensure consistent implementation across the product
Define standards, guidelines, and best practices that enable speed without sacrificing quality
Balance systemization with flexibility as the product evolves
Work with SMEs to balance regulatory, compliance, and operational requirements with excellent UX
Design systems and flows that support trust, accuracy, and clarity for investors and deal organizers
Make confident tradeoffs when constrained, and communicate them clearly
Use data to inform decisions and optimize for outcomes such as conversion, activation, and retention
Act as a coach and mentor for more junior Product Designers
Provide direct feedback and clear creative direction to keep work moving and maintain quality.
Foster a culture of trust, collaboration, speed, accountability, and continuous improvement
Help designers grow both their craft and product thinking
7+ years of product design experience, including at least 2 years experience as a lead/senior designer
Experience establishing or improving design processes on a team.
Exceptionally strong hands-on design skills, with a portfolio demonstrating end-to-end UX ownership and redesigns
Deep experience leading and applying user research to drive strategy and execution
Strong experience designing complex workflows, multi-step processes, or system-heavy products
Strong experience in design systems and UI libraries
Experience working in regulated markets, especially fintech, capital markets, or private venture strongly preferred.
Ability to balance compliance and regulatory needs with delivering a best-in-class customer experience
Experience with consumer and/or SMB products strongly preferred
Data-informed, outcome-oriented designer with a bias toward execution
Comfortable operating in ambiguity and energized by early-stage environments
Our values are important to the way we live and work at Sydecar. They guide our priorities, behaviors and interactions.
As a team, we rise to meet challenges and recognize that we become stronger and develop character when facing adversity.
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.
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.
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.
Sydecar makes it simple for venture investors to form SPVs by automating banking, compliance, and reporting.
Sydecar makes it simple and efficient for venture fund and syndicate managers to form Special Purpose Vehicles (SPVs) by automating banking, compliance, contracts and reporting. Sydecar eliminates operational headaches, freeing up time and resources so managers can focus on building portfolios, strengthening track records and fostering stronger relationships with limited partners. Founded in 2021, Sydecar is on a mission to build the infrastructure that powers private markets.
Offices: San Francisco, US
Sydecar makes it simple for venture investors to form SPVs by automating banking, compliance, and reporting.
Sydecar makes it simple and efficient for venture fund and syndicate managers to form Special Purpose Vehicles (SPVs) by automating banking, compliance, contracts and reporting. Sydecar eliminates operational headaches, freeing up time and resources so managers can focus on building portfolios, strengthening track records and fostering stronger relationships with limited partners. Founded in 2021, Sydecar is on a mission to build the infrastructure that powers private markets.
Offices: San Francisco, US
