Broker Dealer Operations, Associate

Coinbase, Inc.; Baton Rouge (LA); Remote; USD 121,000 - 128,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Bonus eligibility

Medical, dental, vision

401(k)

Job summary

Coinbase is hiring an Associate, Broker Dealer Operations to run the daily operational engine behind our U.S. equities brokerage. You’ll manage reconciliations, onboarding, ACATs, and corporate actions, while reducing manual work and improving client outcomes.

Join a remote-first team with quarterly in-person surges, and contribute to a safe, scalable operation in a fast-growing financial services company.

Qualifications

• 2+ years in financial services operations or related brokerage roles.
• Knowledge of US equities lifecycle: order processing, settlement, transfers.
• Experience investigating data breaks and driving resolutions.
• Ability to follow procedures in regulated environments and judge exceptions.
• Familiarity with Apex Clearing, Jira, SQL or similar tools.
• Responsible use of generative AI with human oversight.

Responsibilities

• Execute daily trade, position, balance, and cash reconciliations between Coinbase and Apex records, investigating and resolving breaks with full documentation.
• Support customer account onboarding and maintenance workflows, including documentation review, status follow-up, and exception escalation.
• Process inbound and outbound securities transfers end-to-end, from intake review and eligibility checks through submission, tracking, and exception resolution.
• Monitor operational alerts and exception queues, prioritize customer- and risk-impacting issues, and coordinate remediation across various teams.
• Support corporate action operations by reviewing event notices, monitoring deadlines, validating allocations, and investigating post-event discrepancies.
• Identify recurring failure modes and propose practical improvements to reduce manual work, shorten resolution time, and improve customer outcomes.

Skills

Financial services ops

US equities knowledge

Data break investigation

Regulated environment discipline

Apex/Jira/SQL tools

AI in workflow optimization

Tools

Apex Clearing

Jira

SQL

Workflow automation tools

Job description

Ready to do the most impactful work of your career? At Coinbase, we are uncompromising on our mission to increase economic freedom. The bar is high, the environment is intense, and we like it that way. This isn't a place for complacency, it’s a place to be pushed past your perceived limits. If you're ready to build the future of finance alongside people who refuse to settle for "good enough," you belong here. Coinbase is a remote-first, but not remote-only company. Expect to get together quarterly for intense in-person working sessions called “surges.” learn more about working at Coinbase.

As an Associate, Broker Dealer Operations, you'll join the Coinbase Capital Markets team within Finance and help run the daily operational engine behind our U.S. equities brokerage experience. This team keeps customer accounts, trades, cash, positions, transfers, and corporate actions accurate, controlled, and scalable. You'll execute core broker-dealer workflows, investigate exceptions, and drive improvements that make the operation safer and more efficient for millions of customers.

What you'll do:

• Execute daily trade, position, balance, and cash reconciliations between Coinbase and Apex records, investigating and resolving breaks with full documentation.

• Support customer account onboarding and maintenance workflows, including documentation review, status follow-up, and exception escalation.

• Process inbound and outbound securities transfers (ACATs) end-to-end, from intake review and eligibility checks through submission, tracking, and exception resolution.

• Monitor operational alerts and exception queues, prioritize customer- and risk-impacting issues, and coordinate remediation across Engineering, Product, Trading, CX, Compliance, Finance, and Apex.

• Support corporate action operations by reviewing event notices, monitoring deadlines, validating allocations, and investigating post-event discrepancies.

• Identify recurring failure modes and propose practical improvements to reduce manual work, shorten resolution time, and improve customer outcomes.

Required skills and experience:

• 2+ years in financial services operations, brokerage operations, clearing and settlement, trade support, or a related operational control function.

• Working knowledge of U.S. equities trade lifecycle concepts, including order processing, settlement, positions, cash movements, corporate actions, and account transfers.

• Demonstrated experience investigating data breaks or operational exceptions across multiple systems and driving issues to documented resolution.

• Proven ability to follow documented procedures consistently in a regulated environment while exercising sound judgment on exceptions outside the runbook.

• Familiarity with clearing platforms (e.g., Apex Clearing), Jira, SQL, or workflow-automation tools used in brokerage operations.

• Utilizes generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in workflow efficiency, cost, and quality.

Position ID: P78331

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*Pay Transparency Notice:** *Base salary varies by location (see range below). Total compensation may also include equity and bonus eligibility, and benefits (medical, dental, vision, 401(k)).

Annual base salary range (excluding equity and bonus):

$121,410—$127,800 USD

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