Managing Counsel
Credible
Associate General Counsel, Institutional
Coinbase
full-time
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Origin: • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $267,070 - $314,200 per year
Job Level
JuniorMid-Level
About the role
- Lead and manage regulatory compliance and risk management for all broker-dealer activities, ensuring adherence to SEC and FINRA rules.
- Provide expert legal counsel on complex issues related to the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, especially new and novel product development.
- Serve as the legal point of contact for regulatory examinations and inquiries from the SEC and FINRA.
- Develop internal policies and procedures to enhance the firm's compliance program and mitigate legal risks.
- Stay current on regulatory developments and advise senior management on the impact of new rules and regulations, particularly for crypto and digital assets markets.
- Provide training and guidance to executives, senior management and cross-functional colleagues on regulatory obligations and best practices.
- Provide practical advice on legal issues and risks, complex and first-of-their-kind agreement structures and company policies in a risk-tolerant, but compliance-oriented environment.
- Effectively collaborate with cross-functional teams (Business Development, Product/Engineering, Finance/Tax, Compliance) and legal colleagues to solve problems, build partnerships, and create agreements that enable deals to be closed more quickly.
- 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 an attorney.
Requirements
- Current license in a U.S. state or financial hub in an international jurisdiction with JD or applicable equivalent
- 12+ years of legal experience
- Interest in digital currency and blockchain technology
- Experienced securities attorney with deep broker-dealer expertise
- Exemplary project management skills
- Experience working with and presenting to VP-level leadership
- Comfortable challenging the status quo
- Excellent judgment, analytical rigor, clear communication, and business pragmatism
- Top-notch analytical skills with experience owning projects from concept to finish
- Comfort and experience with technology solutions that help you scale your practice
- Get to “yes” approach in working with the business
- Risk-adjusted thinking
- Sound and practical business judgment
- Intellectual curiosity and flexibility
- Team-oriented and collaborative
- Nice to haves: Experience working at or with the SEC or Finra
- Nice to haves: Experience working at an active broker-dealer
- Nice to haves: Finra certification
