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About the Role
The General Counsel will ensure Sydecar's products meet the highest standards of federal, state, and international compliance, while exploring creative ways to reduce friction for users and keep the team on the cutting edge of the industry. This role spans legal research, thought leadership, and product innovation, adding value across every aspect of the operation.
Responsibilities
- 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.
- 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 stakeholders on product design, language, and legal impact.
- Contribute directly to innovative fund structures and shape Sydecar’s current and future products.
- Track evolving regulatory frameworks affecting alternative asset investing and engage with industry groups and policymakers.
- Field and respond to external inquiries regarding the business.
- Manage outside counsel, as necessary.
Requirements
- 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.
- Ability to get up to speed on new areas of law quickly and effectively.
- Comfortable working in a startup business environment.
- A JD from an ABA-accredited law school and an active bar license in good standing.
- 10+ years of legal practice experience.
- Extensive in-house experience in the FinTech or venture capital space.
- 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.
Skills
- Legal research
- Thought leadership
- Product innovation
- Risk assessment
- Risk management
- Securities and regulatory compliance
- Commercial agreement negotiation
- Commercial agreement review
- Commercial agreement drafting
- Strategic thinking
- Judgment
- Communication
Location
- Remote
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- 10+ years of legal practice experience
- Extensive in-house experience
Education Level
- JD from an ABA-accredited law school
- Active bar license in good standing
About the Company
- Sydecar is on a mission to transform the world of private markets, making them more accessible, transparent, and liquid by revolutionizing the way investment vehicles are created and executed.
- Sydecar is a trusted partner in venture capital, dedicated to simplifying and standardizing the private investing experience.
- The platform automates banking, compliance, contracts, taxes, and reporting, allowing investors to focus on making deals and nurturing relationships.
- Sydecar's values include being Committed, Excellent, Humble, and Winning Together.
Equal Opportunity
- 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.