Corporate Paralegal
Coinbase has built the world's leading compliant cryptocurrency platform serving over 30 million accounts in more than 100 countries. With multiple successful products, and our vocal advocacy for blockchain technology, we have played a major part in mainstream awareness and adoption of cryptocurrency. We are proud to offer an entire suite of products that are helping build the cryptoeconomy, and increase economic freedom around the world.
There are a few things we look for across all hires we make at Coinbase, regardless of role or team. First, we assess whether a candidate demonstrates our values: Clear Communication, Positive Energy, Efficient Execution, and Continuous Learning. Second, we look for signals that a candidate will thrive in a culture like ours, where we default to trust, embrace feedback, disrupt ourselves, and expect sustained high performance because we play as a championship team. Finally, we seek people with the desire and capacity to build and share expertise in the frontier technologies of crypto and blockchain, in whatever way is most relevant to their role.
Read more about our values and culture here.
We are looking for an exceptional paralegal to be a key teammate to the legal operations team directly supporting the corporate and commercial teams. You will have the opportunity to work on a variety of corporate and commercial matters.
What you’ll be doing (ie. job duties):
- Assist with intake of legal department and team emails, providing first-line advice and triage of inbound requests.
- Assist with maintenance of corporate records and the entity management system.
- Assist with qualifications, annual reports and other corporate updates with secretary of state offices for domestic Coinbase entities.
- Coordinate internal director and officer signatures on various domestic state filings, international filings and corporate documents.
- Work cross-functionally with other stakeholders to complete and maintain the integration of our contract management system.
- Maintain records as it relates to templates, working files and executed agreements.
- Respond to diligence and contractual requests.
- Coordinate across the legal department consistent documentation retention practices and assist with the development and maintenance of any policies relating thereto.
- Support teams with other projects or tasks on an as-needed basis.
What we look for in you (ie. job requirements):
- Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience.
- 2-4 years experience as a paralegal, either at a major law firm or in-house.
- At least two years of demonstrated responsibility for and success with:
- providing support on global company contract management and entity management systems
- record keeping for global corporate structure
- direct communications with clients
- Exceptional professional judgment, ideally exercised in a startup environment.
- Excellent organizational and communication skills.
- Ability to execute under pressure and within tight timelines while juggling multiple projects.
- Highest level of accuracy, superb attention to detail and excellent proofreading skills.
- Ability to process highly confidential data and maintain discretion.
- A self-starter with enthusiasm, who can work independently with minimal oversight on certain projects but who is also a team player and can support on projects when needed.
Nice to haves:
- Proficiency with Google Suite (Google Drive, Gmail, Google Calendar), Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Powerpoint, Excel) and Adobe Pro DC.
- Familiarity with DocuSign CLM, Diligent Entities, Jira and Slack or other related software systems.
- Experience with technology companies (ideally Fintech) whether as clients while at a law firm or as an employer.