Senior Tax Counsel
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 the leading global platform for the trading of crypto assets. As the crypto economy matures, Coinbase is looking for an experienced tax professional with experience in tax planning, tax project management, tax policy and transactional M&A tax . The ideal candidate would have worked in this discipline for a financial services company, a tech company or in consulting at a major law firm or the Big 4 and would want to help collaborate in building a world class tax department for a growing market leader in the crypto economy.
What you’ll be doing (ie. job duties):
- Work with Tax and Product teams on tax planning initiatives
- Work with Finance on the tax aspects related to crypto assets
- Work with legal on tax aspects related to crypto assets
- Work with BD on M&A and investments in new ventures
- Work on representation of Coinbase in tax audits, exams and controversy
- Assess potential risk related to tax aspects of Coinbase’s business
- Drafting guidance and protocols on tax for internal use
- Working on customer communications related to tax
What we look for in you (ie. job requirements):
- 10+ years of tax experience in Big 4, law firm and/or industry
Nice to haves:
- LLM in Tax
- Audit and exam experience
- Government (IRS, Treasury, OECD) experience