Senior Counsel, Regulatory
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.
We are looking for a highly motivated attorney to serve as Regulatory Counsel in our growing Regulatory team. You will collaborate closely with finance and compliance to work on novel legal issues.
What you’ll be doing (ie. job duties):
- Advise on state money transmission obligations, including working with cross-functional stakeholders in Finance and Compliance
- Be the primary point of contact for state banking regulators in conjunction with MTLs
- Provide lending law expertise in conjunction with the acquisition and maintenance of state lending licenses
- Advise on regulatory issues related to payments and remittances
- Legal work for various regulatory licensing projects
- Provide creative, innovative, and effective legal solutions for business stakeholders on routinely short timelines.
- Be an outstanding collaborator with colleagues in legal, finance, accounting, compliance, tax and business operations.
What we look for in you (ie. job requirements):
- Approximately five or more years of relevant regulatory experience, preferably at a fintech company
- Excellent project management, writing and time management skills
- Excellent judgement, analytic rigor, and business pragmatism.
- Willingness to roll up sleeves (no job too big, no job too small).
- Must be active and in good standing in one State Bar in the United States, preferably in California or New York.
Nice to haves:
- Passion for the crypto industry
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