Associate General Counsel, Coinbase
CA$213-237.5k
+ Target bonus + Target equity
The world’s leading exchange for digital currencies
Be an early applicant
The world’s leading exchange for digital currencies
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
CA$213-237.5k
+ Target bonus + Target equity
1001+ employees
Company mission
Their mission is to create an open financial system for the world and to be the leading global brand for helping people convert digital currency into and out of their local currency.
Role
Who you are
- You’ve got positive energy. You’re optimistic about the future and determined to get there
- You’re never tired of learning. You want to be a pro in bleeding edge tech like DeFi, NFTs, DAOs, and Web 3.0
- You appreciate direct communication. You’re both an active communicator and an eager listener - because let’s face it, you can’t have one without the other
- You’re cool with candid feedback and see every setback as an opportunity to grow
- You can pivot on the fly. Crypto is constantly evolving, so our priorities do, too
- What you worked on last month may not be what you work on today, and that excites you. You’re not looking for a boring job
- You have a “can do” attitude. Our teams create high-quality work on quick timelines. Owning a problem doesn’t scare you, but rather empowers you to take 100% responsibility for achieving our mission
- You want to be part of a winning team. We’re stronger together, and you’re a person who embraces being pushed out of your comfort zone
- This role demands expertise in navigating complex regulatory environments
- While expertise in digital currency and blockchain technology is not required, the attorney must have the ability to quickly learn about the products and services offered by Coinbase
- The role requires an individual who excels in a fast-paced environment, demonstrates exceptional problem-solving skills, and possesses the ability to align legal strategies with business objectives while ensuring compliance with both local and international regulations
- Currently practicing as an attorney in Canada, with active Canadian bar registration and 7+ years of legal experience
- Interest in digital currency and blockchain technology
- Expertise and experience working with Canadian financial services, securities, and crypto regulators
- Experience counseling product teams in launching technology products and have a clear understanding of the legal underpinnings supporting these products
- Experience working and leading with cross-functional, globally located teams
- Familiarity with relevant money transmission laws, travel rules, global banking regulations, securities regulations, client money regimes and/or commodities regulations outside of Canada
- Experience advising clients on risk mitigation across technology product platforms
- Experience working with and presenting to VP-level leadership
- 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
- Comfort with risk-taking and creative problem-solving
- Intellectual curiosity and flexibility
- Team-oriented and collaborative
What the job involves
- Our Legal team is seeking an experienced Canadian attorney with over seven years of legal practice, specializing in Canadian financial services, securities, and crypto regulations
- Work with business teams on securing required licenses and registrations for our Canadian entity and businesses
- The successful candidate will be responsible for providing comprehensive legal advice throughout the product life cycle, managing licensing and registration for Canadian entities, and guiding cross-functional teams through global growth initiatives
- Provide full product life-cycle counseling for a variety of global consumer and institutional 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 (Local Management, Product/Engineering, Business Development, 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
- 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
- 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
Our take
Coinbase allows its users to create their own crypto wallets and start buying or selling cryptocurrencies by connecting with their bank accounts. It also provides a series of merchant payment processing systems and tools that support transactions with many popular websites.
Coinbase has recently made a big push to broaden its services away from consumers and they want to cater services from institutional investors.
Coinbase currently offers one of the largest selection of cryptocurrency assets - over 10,000 but does not allow trading on all of them. The company wisely keeps such offerings to the most stable assets however, the list is always expanding. Coinbase see a much wider adoption of cryptocurrency and tokens in the future, and plan to expand potentially to millions in the future. It speaks volumes to Coinbase's goals of wider global adoption that former UK Finance Minister George Osborne is now an Advisor at the company.
Coinbase's lofty ambitions paid off in it being the first crypto listing on the NASDAQ. The company has weathered several bull and bear runs in the cryptocurrency industry through diversification of its offerings, including wallet-as-a-service technology for crypto platforms, and has acquired healthy coffers of cryptocurrency assets. The aim is to eventually operate independently of the volatility surrounding cryptocurrencies.
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Company Specialist
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)
Oct 2018
$300m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Oct 2018
$108.1m
SERIES D
Total funding: $633.4m
Company benefits
- 12 weeks maternity/paternity leave
- Vision and dental care
- Commuter benefits
- Learning and development budget
- Unlimited paid time off policy
- Work from home opportunities
- Health insurance
Company values
- Clear Communication - Share information efficiently, improving collaboration and productivity. Practice active listening while. Being candid and kind
- Positive Energy - Be optimistic about the future and determined to get there. Co-create solutions and work together to get there
- Continuous Learning - We view every situation as an opportunity to learn, We value giving and receiving regular feedback
- Efficient Execution - We complete high quality work quickly by working smarter, not harder. We prefer automation over manual work
- Act like an owner: We take 100% responsibility for achieving the mission. We seek to improve all aspects of our company even in ways that are not explicitly part of our job. We run through brick walls.
- Customer focus: We are deeply focused on solving our customers’ problems with technology, by enabling them to acquire, store and use crypto. We strive to be the easiest to use, most trusted and most secure platform. In every decision we make, we ask, “How does this create more value for our customers?”
- Repeatable innovation: We are builders, leveraging technology to improve the world, constantly shipping ideas vs just discussing them. We know that companies must continually reinvent themselves to avoid stagnation. We have a high tolerance for failure, investing 10% of our resources in venture bets that are uncomfortably ambitious
Company HQ
Civic Center, New York, NY
Articles
Leadership
Brian Armstrong
(CEO)Previously founded UniversityTutor.com, also worked as a Software Engineer at AirBnb
Alessia Haas
(CFO)Previously held various head positions, including VP at GE Healthcare, Director at Merrill Lynch and CFO at CIT Bank and Oz Management
People progressing
Joined as a Compliance Analyst, promoted to Compliance Partnerships Senior Associate in 15 months. 2 promotions later, she is now a Financial Crimes & Compliance Manager.
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