Senior Counsel, Product Legal

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32d•Remote

About The Position

Ready to be pushed beyond what you think you’re capable of? At Coinbase, our mission is to increase economic freedom in the world. It’s a massive, ambitious opportunity that demands the best of us, every day, as we build the emerging onchain platform — and with it, the future global financial system. To achieve our mission, we’re seeking a very specific candidate. We want someone who is passionate about our mission and who believes in the power of crypto and blockchain technology to update the financial system. We want someone who is eager to leave their mark on the world, who relishes the pressure and privilege of working with high caliber colleagues, and who actively seeks feedback to keep leveling up. We want someone who will run towards, not away from, solving the company’s hardest problems. Our work culture is intense and isn’t for everyone. But if you want to build the future alongside others who excel in their disciplines and expect the same from you, there’s no better place to be. While many roles at Coinbase are remote-first, we are not remote-only. In-person participation is required throughout the year. Team and company-wide offsites are held multiple times annually to foster collaboration, connection, and alignment. Attendance is expected and fully supported. Coinbase is leading crypto 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 and creativity is a must! We are looking for a highly motivated, entrepreneurial, and experienced product counsel to join our product legal team as Senior Counsel, Product. You’ll be embedded with the Coinbase Developer team, and collaborate closely with product managers, engineers, UI/UX, and cross-department colleagues including privacy, regulatory and international counsel, Compliance and Finance. You’ll take a thought leadership role in advising multiple Product teams on specific aspects of product development and implementation.

Requirements

You are currently licensed in a U.S. state. J.D. or equivalent with 7+ years of legal experience, preferably with in-house experience with a consumer technology, fintech or crypto/blockchain company.
You have experience counseling product teams in launching technology products and have a clear understanding of the legal underpinnings supporting these products.
You have a strong interest in digital currency, blockchain technology, and innovative constructs pioneered by decentralized applications, web3, and defi.
You’re familiar with major global laws, regulations, and agencies associated with payments/financial services, internet technology, and crypto, including money transmission laws, NYDFS Bitlicense, banking regulations, e-money issuance, securities regulation, BSA, CDA Section 230, CFPB, CFTC, FTC Section 5 and UDAAP, GDPR, etc.
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.

Nice To Haves

Payments expertise
Tech Infrastructure experience
B2B product development experience

Responsibilities

Join and contribute to a best-in-class crypto product legal team, embedded with our Developer business.
Work hand-in-hand in the day-to-day operations of Coinbase product teams, providing legal, business and strategic advice. Look around corners and creatively tackle problems for teams that are planning, building, and executing on an innovative product roadmap.
Provide full product life-cycle counseling, from ideation and development to launch, operation and sunset. Know how to help build, and when vital to dismantle.
Keep things legal globally! Focus spanning U.S. domestic as well as international issues.
Identify issues that may fall outside your expertise, driving resolution by partnering with other members of the Coinbase legal team and with outside counsel.
Work cross-functionally with different key colleagues, including Compliance, Communications, Finance, Security, Data Analytics, and more. Be a good partner and bring the right individuals to the table.
Respond promptly to a wide range of sophisticated legal requests and coordinate closely with Legal department colleagues to ensure the swift delivery of thoughtful, practical advice.
Be the legal owner for your product and practice area, seize the initiative to engage with teams, seek out additional relevant information to the task at hand, ask hard questions, and provide great legal counsel for the issues at hand and ones you see around the corner.
Operate in a fast paced, demanding environment and quickly adjust 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 the request at hand.