Hybrid Business Operations and Strategy Associate

at Sydecar

• Job title: Business Operations and Strategy Associate
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Junior, Mid level
• Salary: $120,000 - $135,000 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: Go
• Location requirements: Hybrid, New York City, United States

About the role

• Business Operations & Strategy Associate supporting Sydecar's growth by translating strategic priorities into analysis and recommendations. Collaborating with senior leadership and cross-functional teams.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Requirements

• 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.

Benefits

• Offers Equity
• Offers Bonus