Senior Counsel, Capital Markets
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 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. Second, we expect all employees to commit to our mission-focused approach to our work. 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.
Coinbase is leading the expansion of digital currency into the financial mainstream. We are building a world-class legal team to support Coinbase and its affiliates as we continue to grow the company in the U.S. and internationally. You will be working in a cutting edge and fast paced environment, where disruptive technologies and unconventional thinking are the norm. Given the nascent state of the law, novel legal guidance is needed!
We are looking for a highly motivated, entrepreneurial, and experienced lawyer to join our product legal team as Senior Counsel, Capital Markets. This position will report to our Senior Director & Associate General Counsel for Capital Markets, and will be working on a variety of products, both internal and C2B/B2B customer-facing. This is a highly visible role throughout Coinbase, which will require you to build strong relationships with your teammates and business partners. You’ll be embedded with Coinbase product teams, and collaborate closely with product managers, engineers, UI/UX, and cross-department colleagues including regulatory and international counsel, Compliance and Finance. You’ll take a thought leadership role in advising our product business on specific aspects of product development and implementation.
What you’ll be doing (ie. job duties):
- Integrate with a team that is providing full product life-cycle counseling for Coinbase’s global Capital Markets products, for both new and existing financial products.
- Ensure product compliance with applicable U.S. and international laws and regulations, in close collaboration with colleagues in Legal and Compliance teams.
- Provide thought leadership and strategic direction on novel digital currency and blockchain technology and related legal and regulatory issues focused on the institutional space.
- Proactively solve process and other problems for the business as they plan and execute on an accelerated and aggressive global growth plan.
- Identify issues that may fall outside your expertise, driving resolution by partnering with other members of the Coinbase legal team and with outside counsel.
- Respond promptly to a wide range of complex legal requests and coordinate closely with Legal department colleagues to ensure the swift delivery of smart, practical advice.
- Operate in a fast paced, demanding environment and pivot quickly to meet leadership's needs.
- Recognize priority initiatives and effectively manage your clients and your advice to scale your advice and provide the right level of guidance for the request at hand.
What we look for in you (ie. job requirements):
- Currently licensed in a U.S. state. JD or equivalent with 8+ years of legal experience, preferably in the areas of financial entities/products and financial regulation.
- You have a deep understanding of the legal structure and regulatory requirements for various financial instruments (e.g., securities, futures, commodities, derivatives, crypto) and relevant intermediaries. You have substantive experience working on broker-dealer/ATS/national securities exchange and/or DCM/FCM structures and related regulatory issues.
- You have experience with key U.S. regulators in the financial institutional space: E.g CFTC, SEC, FINRA, NFA, DFS, or OCC. Some international regulatory experience would be useful as well.
- You have expertise working with internal business and product teams in launching global financial products.
- You have a strong interest in digital currency, blockchain technology, and innovative constructs pioneered by decentralized finance.
- You have proven problem-solving, communication and interpersonal skills.
- You exercise excellent legal judgment with analytic rigor, prudential risk assessment, and a balance of realizable creativity and pragmatism.
- You are comfortable with risk-adjusted thinking, and can understand when interpretive flexibility is warranted
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