OGC Counsel managing ethics conflicts and compliance issues in a global law firm. Reviewing guidelines and providing advisory support while ensuring adherence to legal ethics and professional responsibilities.
About the role
- Senior Counsel, Product managing legal processes for Coinbase's product development in a fast-paced environment. Collaborating with multiple teams to provide legal advice and ensure compliance.
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.
Requirements
- 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.
Benefits
- bonus eligibility
- equity eligibility
- benefits (including medical, dental, vision and 401(k))
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