About the role

Counsel, Commercial role at Coinbase for U.S. markets and institutional clients. Negotiating agreements and providing legal guidance on financial and digital products.

Responsibilities

Negotiate first-of-a-kind, highly-tailored agreements with strategic partners and sophisticated counterparties in the finance, payments and digital currency space.
Provide full product life-cycle counseling for a variety of global prime brokerage, custody and derivatives related products, and practical advice on associated legal issues and risks, complex agreement structures and company policies in a risk-tolerant, but compliance-oriented environment.
Stay abreast of and advise on digital currency and blockchain technology legal and regulatory issues.
Lead and assist with complex and global cross-functional efforts, driving and ensuring cross-functional alignment with other stakeholders (Institutional Sales, Business Development, Product/Engineering, Finance/Tax, Compliance).
Effectively collaborate with those same cross-functional teams and legal colleagues to solve problems, build partnerships, and close deals quickly.
Proactively solve problems for the business as they plan and execute on an aggressive global growth plan, develop scaled strategies for addressing risk in business-centric ways and build commercial processes that allow the business flexibility and freedom to move quickly.
Look around corners and creatively solve problems for the business as they plan, build, and execute their transactional and product roadmap.
Be a business partner, not just a lawyer.

Licensed attorney with at least 5 years experience working in a financial services institution (e.g. bank, e-money issuer, payment service firm, broker dealer / asset manager) or in a law firm supporting such clients.
Strong negotiation skills and ability to review and negotiate financial agreements (e.g. prime brokerage, lending and derivatives documentation).
Strong history of commercial and transactional legal work
Interest in digital currency and blockchain technology.
Experience working and leading with cross-functional, globally located teams.
Familiarity with US and/or EU or UK regulatory regimes applicable to financial instruments.
Comfortable challenging the status quo and preconceived notions of what is possible.
Excellent judgment, analytical rigor, clear communication, and business pragmatism.
Top-notch analytical skills with experience owning projects from concept to finish.
Creativity, comfort and experience with oral solutions that help scale financial services businesses and technology solutions that help scale practices.
Sound and practical business judgment.
Intellectual curiosity and flexibility.
Attention to detail and focus on process ownership from start to finish.
Team-oriented and collaborative.

Full time offers from Coinbase also include bonus eligibility + equity eligibility + benefits (including medical, dental, vision and 401(k)).