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 product counsel to join our product legal team as Senior Counsel, Ecosystems for Crypto Assets. You’ll work on products associated with launching new cryptocurrency and digital assets across Coinbase services for listing, custody, and trading. You’ll help manage a rigorous asset review workflow that involves in-house legal review, cross-functional and business client assessment, and outside counsel or consultant processes, all tailored to help Coinbase make a determination on asset suitability for our platform. You’ll develop expertise in individual crypto tokens and broad classes of assets, and manage an evolving asset review process, including in-house and external work. This is a highly visible role throughout the company, which will require you to build strong relationships with your teammates and business partners. You’ll collaborate closely with product managers, engineers, UI/UX, and cross-department colleagues including Listings, Regulatory, International teams, Compliance and Risk Management.

What you’ll be doing (ie. job duties):

• Join and contribute to a best-in-class crypto product legal team, embedded with the Ecosystems business. 
• Work in a highly collaborative team to identify, evaluate, and risk-rate new and novel cryptocurrencies for inclusion within various products of the Coinbase ecosystem. 
• Direct and work with our outside counsel and external process vendors to evaluate, rate, and score assets.
• Help improve and expand the scope of our asset review workflow, including to new jurisdictions and new classes of assets.
• Ensure product compliance with applicable U.S. and international laws and regulations, in close collaboration with colleagues in Legal and the Compliance team. 
• Help to implement legal standards and requirements for critical processes that have ongoing business and regulatory impact. 
• 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 request at hand.

What we look for in you (ie. job requirements):

• Currently licensed in a U.S. state; J.D. or equivalent with 6+ years of legal experience, preferably with in-house experience with a consumer financial services business, a fintech or crypto/blockchain company.
• You have experience counseling product teams in launching financial services or technology products and have a clear understanding of the legal and structure and regulatory underpinning those products. 
• You are familiar with a variety of financial instruments (e.g., securities, commodities, derivatives, crypto), including lending, trading, custodial and non-custodial management of assets, and settlement of those instruments.
• You have a strong interest in digital currency, blockchain technology, and innovative constructs pioneered by decentralized finance.
• You’re familiar with the global laws and regulations, and agencies associated with payments, financial services and technology companies, including money transmission laws, NY Bitlicense, banking regulations, or e-money issuance.
• 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.
• You are team-oriented and collaborative, you bring cross-departmental colleagues to the table, and build your practice to enable your clients to successfully build and launch crypto products at Coinbase.

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