Prime Sales Trader

Coinbase; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 158,000 - 185,000; Full time

Job summary

Coinbase is hiring a Prime Sales Trader for the Institutional Prime Trading team. You will grow one of Coinbase's most strategic businesses by delivering top-tier execution and liquidity solutions to sophisticated institutional clients across crypto-native and traditional finance.

The role involves driving trading volume, building trusted relationships, and shaping the client experience across spot and derivatives.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of sales/trading experience in digital assets, FX, equities, credit, or derivatives at a top-tier institution.
• Strong options pricing, hedging, and risk management knowledge.
• Proven ability to build trusted institutional relationships.
• Experience producing market commentary for institutional clients.
• Responsible use of AI with human oversight to improve workflows.

Responsibilities

• Drive trading volume by understanding clients' liquidity needs and matching execution services.
• Maintain counterparty relationships with high-quality execution and market updates.
• Partner with Sales, Financing, and Account Management to onboard and monetize new clients.
• Provide feedback to Product Managers to guide development of spot trading and financing products.
• Monitor market sentiment and client positioning to inform internal decision-making.

Skills

Sales at instituc

Options trading

Counterparty relationships

Market commentary

AI-enabled workflows

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.”

As a Prime Sales Trader on the Institutional Prime Trading team, you'll help grow one of Coinbase's most strategically important businesses by delivering best-in-class execution and liquidity solutions to the world's most sophisticated institutional clients. Our clients include asset managers, hedge funds, VCs, family offices, pensions, and endowments across both crypto-native and traditional finance. You'll drive trading volume, deepen counterparty relationships, and shape how institutional clients experience Coinbase's execution services across spot and derivatives markets.

What you'll do:

• Drive increased trading volume by understanding clients' liquidity needs, proactively identifying how high-touch and low-touch execution services can meet those needs, and providing real-time support for execution and market color.
• Build and maintain trusted counterparty relationships through quality execution, daily market updates on liquidity and flow thematics, and consistent, high-quality service delivery.
• Partner with Sales, Financing, and Account Management teams to identify, onboard, and monetize new client relationships, proactively surfacing business opportunities across Coinbase's institutional product suite.
• Provide structured feedback from clients and the broader marketplace to institutional Product Managers, guiding new product development across spot trading and financing.
• Maintain a real-time pulse on market sentiment, trading activity, and client positioning, keeping relevant internal teams informed to support strategic decision-making.

Required Skills and Experience:

• 3+ years of sales and/or trading experience in digital assets, FX, equities, credit, or derivatives at a top-tier institution, with direct experience in daily execution and settlement functions.
• Strong options trading capability, including pricing, hedging, and risk-managing vanilla and/or exotic structures, with fluency in Greeks, volatility dynamics, and options market microstructure.
• Proven ability to build and maintain counterparty relationships with institutional clients, translating market insight into trusted, high-value interactions.
• Experience producing institutional-grade market commentary or client communications covering macro, crypto, or digital asset themes.
• Weekend availability required - this role operates on a schedule that includes Saturday and Sunday as working days.
• Utilizes generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in workflow efficiency, cost, and quality.

PID: P77366

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):

$157,590 — $185,400 USD

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