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Sales Director

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Hybrid
New York, NY, USA
120K-135K Annually
Senior level
Hybrid
New York, NY, USA
120K-135K Annually
Senior level
The Sales Manager will lead a sales team, manage sales strategy and performance, and drive revenue growth by optimizing sales funnels and processes while mentoring team members.
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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.

What you'll be doing
  • Take full ownership of you and your team’s pipeline by owning a revenue target, forecast, and performance — driving activity and momentum to exceed team revenue goals

  • Lead with data: uncover trends, optimize funnel efficiency, and implement process improvements that increase conversion and velocity

  • Guide and inspire a high-performing sales team (AEs and BDRs) through structured coaching, goal setting, and strategic support — ensuring individual and team quota attainment

  • Demonstrates strong habits and consistent execution, with a systems-oriented approach to building scalable GTM processes.

  • Work closely with Revenue Operations to unlock data insights that will optimize sales rep performance and funnel conversion.

  • Contribute directly to revenue by closing your own deals, while modeling best practices in sales execution and customer engagement

  • Collaborate closely with the your manager (Head of Sales) to continuously refine sales strategy, enablement, and team structure

  • Partner cross-functionally with operations, marketing, customer success, and product teams to align efforts, remove friction, and accelerate growth

  • Foster a culture of accountability, development, and continuous improvement through regular call listening and feedback

What you'll need
  • A passion for both selling and coaching

  • Strong and proven sales acumen

  • Emotional intelligence: leadership focused on building trust, motivating teams, desire to understand customer problems and lead with empathy

  • A strong grasp of sales metrics and reporting

  • High agency and thrives in uncertainty

  • Analytical mindset with ability understand and apply data across the funnel

  • An analytical mindset and a tilt toward data driven decision-making and performance optimization

  • Process oriented, and biases toward action and building for scale

  • A value for collaboration (you’ll be collaborating closely with functions like product, marketing, and business operations)

  • Excellent written and verbal communications

What we look for
  • Undergraduate degree from an accredited college or university

  • 5+ years of sales experience, including direct quota responsibility

  • At least 2 years managing SDRs or Account Executives

  • Proven success selling into alternative investments, capital markets, or financial services

  • Proficient operations of CRM platforms (e.g. HubSpot or Salesforce)

  • A track record of driving results through structured goal setting, coaching, and strategic leadership

  • A proven track record of strong individual and team quota attainment.

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.

Top Skills

Crm Platforms
Hubspot
Salesforce

Sydecar New York, New York, USA Office

New York, NY, United States, 10010

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