Coinbase · 20 hours ago
Senior Counsel, Product Legal
San Francisco, CA
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level
$225K/yr - $265K/yr
7+ years expCoinbase is a leading company in the cryptocurrency space, aiming to increase economic freedom globally. They are seeking a Senior Counsel to join their product legal team, providing legal guidance throughout the product lifecycle and collaborating with various teams to ensure compliance and strategic advice.
BitcoinBlockchainCryptocurrencyFinTechTrading Platform
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
Qualification
Required
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
Preferred
Payments expertise
Tech Infrastructure experience
B2B product development experience
Benefits
Bonus eligibility
Equity eligibility
Benefits (including medical, dental, vision and 401(k))
Company
Coinbase
Coinbase is a crypto exchange and wallet platform that allows merchants and consumers to buy, sell, and store digital currencies.
1001-5000 employees
H1B Sponsorship
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$4.45BKey Investors
ARK Investment ManagementTiger Global ManagementIVP
2025-08-05Post Ipo Debt· $2.6B
2025-03-04Post Ipo Equity· $8M
2024-03-13Post Ipo Debt· $1.1B
Leadership Team
Brian Armstrong
CEO & Co-Founder
Alesia Haas
CFO
Recent News
2026-01-17
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