Counsel, Commercial – Institutional Legal
Coinbase
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: United States
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Salary
💰 $183,855 - $216,300 per year
About the role
- 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.
Requirements
- 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.
Benefits
- Bonus eligibility
- Equity eligibility
- Benefits (including medical, dental, vision and 401(k))
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard Skills & Tools
negotiationfinancial agreementscommercial legal worktransactional legal workdigital currencyblockchain technologyregulatory complianceproject ownershiprisk managementagreement structures
Soft Skills
analytical skillsclear communicationbusiness pragmatismcreativityproblem-solvingteam-orientedcollaborativeattention to detailintellectual curiosityflexibility
Certifications
licensed attorney