About the company
Coinbase is one of the most trusted cryptocurrency exchanges today. It secures cash on FDIC-secured accounts, lets you securely connect and trade crypto via your bank account, and blocks suspicious accounts to ensure user safety
Job Summary
What you’ll be doing (ie. job duties):
📍Join a best-in-class product legal team, and act as the primary legal point of contact for the Platform product, engineering, and design teams. 📍Integrate into the day-to-day operations of the teams you support, providing legal, business and strategic advice. Look around corners and creatively solve problems for the business as they plan, build, and execute on their product roadmap. 📍Provide full product life-cycle counseling, from ideation and development to launch, operation and sunset. 📍Ensure product compliance with applicable U.S. and international laws and regulations, in close collaboration with cross-functional colleagues in Legal and the Compliance team. 📍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-departmentally, including with stakeholders such as Compliance, Communications, Finance, Tax, Security, Enterprise Risk Management, and Data Analytics. 📍Operate in a fast paced, demanding environment and pivot quickly to meet leadership's needs.
What we look for in you (ie. job requirements):
📍Currently licensed in a U.S. state. J.D. or equivalent with 8+ years of legal experience, preferably with in-house experience with a consumer financial services business, a fintech or crypto/blockchain company. 📍You have experience counseling product teams in launching financial services and/or technology products, with the ability to issue spot and provide targeted, practical guidance. 📍You have a strong interest in digital currency, blockchain technology, and innovative constructs pioneered by decentralized applications, web3, and defi. 📍You are familiar with consumer financial services regulation and agencies (Reg E, FinCEN/BSA, state MTL regimes) and consumer services and internet regulations and agencies (UDAP/UDAAP, Privacy/GDPR)
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