Hybrid Director, Associate General Counsel – Commercial Legal

at Coinbase

• Job title: Director, Associate General Counsel – Commercial Legal
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Lead
• Salary: $302,090 - $355,400 per year
• Degree requirement: No Education Requirement
• Location requirements: Hybrid, United States

About the role

• Director, Associate General Counsel leading contractual negotiations and partnership agreements at Coinbase. Focused on innovative commercial transaction strategies within the crypto industry.

Responsibilities

• Negotiate first-of-their-kind, highly-tailored agreements with strategic partners and sophisticated counterparties in the finance, payments, and digital currency space.
• Provide practical advice on legal issues and risks and drive complex agreement structures.
• Effectively collaborate with cross-functional teams (Business Development, Product/Engineering, Finance/Tax, Compliance) and legal colleagues to solve problems, build partnerships, and close complex deals quickly.
• Develop scaled strategies for addressing risk in business-centric ways and build commercial processes for Business Development, strategic sourcing, and vendor management that facilitate business flexibility and accelerate deal timelines.
• Look around corners and creatively solve problems for the business as they plan, build, and execute their transactional and product roadmap.
• Be a trusted business partner and leader across the team.

Requirements

• Current license in a U.S. state or international jurisdiction with JD or applicable equivalent, with 12 or more years of relevant transactional experience in-house or at a leading law firm.
• Interest in digital currency and blockchain technology.
• Excellent commercial drafting and negotiation skills, judgment, analytic rigor, and business pragmatism.
• Experience structuring complex transactions and commercial agreements with strategic partners in the tech, payments, and/or finance space.
• Management and leadership experience.
• Willingness to roll up sleeves (no job too big, no job too small).
• Demonstrates the ability to responsibly use generative AI tools and copilots (e.g., LibreChat, Gemini, Glean) in daily workflows, continuously learn as tools evolve, and apply human‑in‑the‑loop practices to deliver business‑ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in efficiency, cost, and quality.

Benefits

• medical
• dental
• vision
• 401(k)