About the company
Coinbase is one of the most trusted cryptocurrency exchanges today. It secures cash on FDIC-secured accounts, lets you securely connect and trade crypto via your bank account, and blocks suspicious accounts to ensure user safety
Job Summary
What you’ll be doing (ie. job duties):
📍Negotiate first-of-a-kind, highly-tailored agreements with strategic partners and sophisticated counterparties in the finance, payments and digital currency space. 📍Provide practical advice on legal issues and risks, complex 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 close deals 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
What we look for in you (ie. job requirements):
📍Current license in a U.S. state or international jurisdiction with JD or applicable equivalent, with four or more years of relevant transactional experience at a leading law firm, or comparable in house practice. Interest in digital currency and blockchain technology. 📍Experience structuring complex transactions and negotiating and drafting commercial agreements with strategic partners in the tech, payments, and/or finance space. 📍Excellent judgment, analytic rigor, and business pragmatism. Willingness to roll up sleeves (no job too big, no job too small).