Product Designer

Sydecar is on a mission to transform the world of private markets. Our goal is to make these markets more accessible, transparent, and liquid by revolutionizing the way investment vehicles are created and executed. At Sydecar, we're a trusted partner in venture capital, simplifying and standardizing the private investing experience. We empower capital allocators to discover and support visionary entrepreneurs by automating banking, ensuring compliance, handling contracts, managing taxes, and streamlining reporting, allowing investors to focus on making valuable deals and nurturing meaningful relationships.

About the Role

We're hiring a Product Designer to own the end-to-end design of features and experiences as we scale our product. This is a high-ownership, high-execution role for a designer who wants to build 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 customers ranging from first-time investors and deal organizers to large venture capital firms. Success requires balancing compliance and regulatory constraints with delivering a best-in-class, intuitive experience for complex financial workflows.

Responsibilities

• Own features end-to-end, including UX tradeoffs, 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.

Requirements

• 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

• 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.
• 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.
• Win Together: Winning is no accident. It is the result of collective hard work, perseverance, sacrifice, and most of all, loving what we do.

Pay

Compensation Range: $140K - $150K