Business Operations and Strategy Associate

Reposted 2 Days Ago
New York, NY, USA
Hybrid
120K-135K Annually
Junior
Angel or VC Firm • Fintech • Software
Sydecar is on a mission to transform the world of private markets.
The Role
The Business Operations & Strategy Associate supports strategic initiatives through analytical work, financial modeling, market research, and cross-functional project management to drive business growth.
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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 Business Operations & Strategy Associate to support Sydecar's next phase of growth. You'll work closely with the Senior Business Operations and Strategy Manager and senior leadership to translate strategic priorities into rigorous analysis, clear recommendations, and execution-ready materials. This isn't a support role - you'll own analytical work streams end-to-end, from scoping a model to presenting findings to the leadership team. You'll gain deep exposure to how a high-growth fintech platform makes decisions across pricing, market entry, partnerships, and product strategy. If you're someone who moves fast, communicates clearly, and gets energized by solving problems that don't have obvious answers, this role is for you.

What You'll Do
  • Build and maintain financial models that support planning and decision-making across revenue forecasting, pricing, unit economics, and scenario analysis.

  • Conduct market sizing, competitive research, and landscape analysis to help frame new strategic initiatives before they go into execution.

  • Develop materials for leadership, board, and investor audiences - translating complex analysis into clear, concise narratives with a point of view.

  • Partner cross-functionally with teams across Go-to-Market, Product, Engineering, Finance, Legal, and Customer Experience to coordinate analytical inputs and support initiative planning.

  • Manage complex, cross-functional projects to success: track workstreams, dependencies, and timelines on strategic projects to ensure alignment across teams before and during execution.

  • Identify patterns in operational and revenue data and surface actionable insights - not just the "what" but the "so what."

  • Support ad hoc analysis and research requests from the COO and CEO as strategic priorities evolve.

What We're Looking For
  • 2-3 years of experience in investment banking, management consulting, or a high-growth startup in an analytical or strategy role.

  • Excellent financial modeling skills - you're comfortable building a model from scratch, structuring assumptions clearly, and stress-testing outputs.

  • Well-versed in Excel or Google Sheets; able to work with large datasets and build analysis that others can follow and update.

  • Proficiency and curiosity in AI tooling.

  • Experience building presentation decks that communicate a clear story — you know how to make a slide do work, not just hold information.

  • Ability to work cross-functionally and move projects forward without direct authority — you're effective at influencing through clarity and credibility, not position.

  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills; you can distill a nuanced analysis into a few crisp sentences for a senior audience.

  • You enjoy data analysis and can find and deliver data-driven insights.

  • Highly organized and self-directed - you manage your own priorities, flag blockers early, and are a self-starter.

  • Comfort operating in ambiguity; this is a fast-moving environment where the scope of work evolves alongside the business.

Bonus If You Have
  • Exposure to private markets, venture capital, or fintech.

  • Experience working at an early-stage or Series A/B company where priorities shifted quickly and scope was broad.

  • Proficiency in SQL or experience querying data directly.

  • An experimentation mindset with AI tools - you've used AI to move faster and think critically about where it fits in an analytical workflow.

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.

Skills Required

  • 2-3 years of experience in investment banking, management consulting, or a high-growth startup in an analytical or strategy role
  • Excellent financial modeling skills
  • Well-versed in Excel or Google Sheets
  • Proficiency and curiosity in AI tooling
  • Experience building presentation decks
  • Ability to work cross-functionally and influence without authority
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills
  • Enjoy data analysis and delivering data-driven insights
  • Highly organized and self-directed
  • Comfort operating in ambiguity
  • Exposure to private markets, venture capital, or fintech
  • Experience in an early-stage or Series A/B company
  • Proficiency in SQL
  • Experimentation mindset with AI tools

Sydecar Compensation & Benefits Highlights

The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Sydecar and has not been reviewed or approved by Sydecar.

  • Healthcare Strength Pay is described as competitive for many roles, with total compensation data points clustering in the mid-to-high six figures for senior technical and product positions. Healthcare is characterized as generously covered across medical, dental, and vision offerings.
  • Retirement Support Retirement support includes an employer 401(k) match that is positioned as meaningful for a startup environment. The presence of a match post–Series A is highlighted as a notable differentiator versus many peers.
  • Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits Wellbeing and lifestyle support includes explicit stipends such as annual wellness and professional development budgets, plus reimbursement for personal data plans and home-office/workspace support. Time-off and family benefits are also broadly positioned through PTO/sick leave and parental leave availability.

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The Company
New York, NY
65 Employees
Year Founded: 2021

What We Do

Sydecar is a frictionless deal execution platform for venture investors. Our platform handles back-office operations for venture investors, automating banking, compliance, contracts, and reporting so that customers can focus on making deals and building relationships. The opportunity in venture capital is greater than ever. But for aspiring investors, getting started can be intimidating, expensive, and time-consuming. We’re here to help! Sydecar makes private investing dead simple so you can focus on what matters most: building relationships and sourcing investment opportunities. We're hiring! Join us to empower the next generation of investing leaders. https://www.sydecar.io/careers

Why Work With Us

Sydecar is a tight-knit, early-stage team on a mission to make private markets more accessible by standardizing how investment vehicles are created. Our team is values-driven and emphasizes dependability, ownership, trust, and growth. You're joining early, so you'll have a big part in shaping how we accomplish this goal.

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