Real Estate & Builds Intern (EWX)

Coinbase; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 45,000 - 65,000; Part time

Job summary

Coinbase, a remote-first but not remote-only company, is seeking a Real Estate & Builds Intern for a 12-week summer 2027 program. You will contribute to standardizing and future-proofing our real estate strategy and workplace experience.

You’ll collaborate with Design, Builds, and Workplace Experience teams, participate in planning and milestone tracking, and help develop tools and templates to improve efficiency.

Qualifications

• Currently pursuing a degree or certificate in real estate, business, urban planning, facilities management, or project management.
• Exposure to project management fundamentals with cross-team collaboration.
• Ability to synthesize data, benchmarks, and input into clear recommendations.
• Experience creating playbooks, process maps, or presentations.
• Interest in workplace strategy or real estate operations.
• Uses generative AI responsibly with human oversight.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to a standardization initiative that establishes scalable frameworks for how we plan, design, and deliver workplace experiences across our portfolio
• Partner with Design, Builds, and Workplace Experience teams to identify opportunities to streamline processes and create consistency in project execution
• Support cross-functional project cycles from inception to completion - planning, stakeholder alignment, milestone tracking, and post-project evaluation
• Research and synthesize industry trends, benchmarks, and internal data to inform recommendations
• Help develop tools, playbooks, templates, or guidelines for standards execution

Skills

Project management

Data synthesis

Documentation

Cross-functional collab

Education

Real estate

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.

This is a 12-week internship during summer 2027.

As a Real Estate & Builds Intern on the Employee & Workplace Experience team, you'll spend 12 weeks contributing to a project focused on standardizing and future-proofing our real estate strategy and workplace experience. You'll work closely with Design, Builds, and Workplace Experience teams - partnering with cross-functional stakeholders to improve processes and drive consistency across our portfolio. This role offers hands-on exposure to how projects move from inception to completion, giving you a front-row seat to the collaboration, decision-making, and execution that shape our workplace.

What you'll do:

• Contribute to a standardization initiative that establishes scalable frameworks for how we plan, design, and deliver workplace experiences across our portfolio
• Partner with Design, Builds, and Workplace Experience teams to identify opportunities to streamline processes and create consistency in project execution
• Support cross-functional project cycles from inception to completion - participating in planning, stakeholder alignment, milestone tracking, and post-project evaluation
• Research and synthesize industry trends, benchmarks, and internal data to inform recommendations that future-proof our real estate strategy
• Help develop tools, playbooks, templates, or guidelines that enable teams to execute standards more efficiently and with greater consistency

Required Skills and Experience:

• Currently pursuing a degree or certificate in real estate, business, urban planning, facilities management, project management, or a related discipline
• Exposure to project management fundamentals, including planning, timeline tracking, and milestone reporting, with experience collaborating across multiple teams or stakeholders on shared deliverables
• Demonstrated ability to synthesize data, benchmarks, and qualitative input into clear, structured recommendations for cross-functional audiences
• Experience creating documentation such as playbooks, process maps, or presentations through coursework, projects, or prior internships
• Interest in workplace strategy, employee experience, or real estate operations, demonstrated through coursework, projects, volunteer work, or self-directed learning
• Utilizes generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in workflow efficiency, cost, and quality

Pay Transparency Notice: Depending on your work location, the target hourly rate for this position can range as detailed below.

Hourly Rate:

$40—$40 USD

Equal Opportunity Employer: Coinbase is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or genetic information.

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