Senior Counsel, Product
CoinbaseHeadquarters: Remote - USA
Ready to do the most impactful work of your career? At Coinbase, we are uncompromising on our mission to increase economic freedom. The bar is high, the environment is intense, and we like it that way. This isn't a place for complacency, it’s a place to be pushed past your perceived limits. If you're ready to build the future of finance alongside people who refuse to settle for "good enough," you belong here. Coinbase is a remote-first, but not remote-only company. Expect to get together quarterly for intense in-person working sessions called “surges.” learn more about working at Coinbase.
As Senior Counsel, Product on the Product Legal team, you'll serve as the primary legal partner to product, engineering, and design teams building stablecoins, payments, and crypto infrastructure at Coinbase. This team provides full product life-cycle counseling across some of the most novel areas in fintech and crypto law. You'll shape how Coinbase navigates complex regulatory landscapes while shipping products that bring crypto into the financial mainstream, advising from ideation through launch and collaborating cross-functionally with Privacy, Regulatory, Compliance, and Finance.
What you'll do:
- Own the legal advisory relationship for stablecoin, payments, and crypto infrastructure product teams, providing day-to-day legal, business, and strategic counsel throughout the product life cycle.
- Advise product managers and engineers on U.S. and international regulatory requirements, including money transmission laws, the GENIUS Act, NYDFS BitLicense, banking regulations, e-money issuance, securities regulation, and BSA compliance.
- Drive resolution of novel legal issues by identifying risks, partnering with specialized colleagues across Legal, and engaging outside counsel where needed.
- Partner cross-functionally with Compliance, Communications, Finance, Tax, Security, and Enterprise Risk Management to deliver cohesive legal guidance that enables product launches.
- Shape the team's approach to emerging regulatory frameworks, proactively advising product teams on how new laws and guidance affect product design, disclosures, and go-to-market strategy.
- Build scalable legal processes and playbooks that enable product teams to move quickly while maintaining compliance with applicable laws and regulations.
Required Skills and Experience:
- J.D. with 7+ year
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