Senior Associate, FCM

Coinbase; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 131,000 - 154,000; Full time

Job summary

Coinbase is seeking a Senior Associate, FCM to manage exceptions and ensure operational readiness for new product launches across US Futures, Prediction Markets, and Options. You will collaborate with Product, Risk, Compliance, Accounting, and Engineering to design scalable controls and reporting, while establishing dashboards and incident triage paths.

The role emphasizes automation, analytics, and regulatory alignment, with a remote-first, in-person surges quarterly.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in financial services or fintech operations with FCM, broker-dealer, or listed derivatives experience.
• Analytical problem-solving in exception-based operations with prioritization and escalation.
• Product launch and operational readiness experience (UAT, playbooks, cutover plans).
• Cross-functional collaboration with Product, Risk, Compliance, Engineering.
• Interest in blockchain/cryptocurrency markets and ability to learn quickly.

Responsibilities

• Own exception management across cash, positions, trades, and margin, including triage and durable fixes.
• Lead operational readiness for new product launches (UAT, playbooks, cutovers).
• Partner with Product, Risk, Compliance, Accounting, and Engineering to design scalable processes and controls.
• Establish monitoring, SLAs, KPIs, dashboards, and incident triage with clear escalation paths.
• Drive root cause analysis and post-mortems for product and process improvements.
• Identify and implement automation to reduce manual work.

Skills

Exception management

Operational readiness

Cross-functional partnering

AI tooling awareness

Derivatives operations

Trade operations

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.

Senior Associate, FCM

The FCM Operations team supports Coinbase Financial Markets, Inc. across US Futures, Prediction Markets, and Options by managing back-office operations including trade flow management, position management, margin monitoring, regulatory reporting, and business analytics. As a Senior Associate, FCM, you'll own exception management and operational readiness for new product launches, ensuring our derivatives infrastructure scales reliably while meeting regulatory expectations.

What you'll do:

• Own exception management across cash, positions, trades, and margin, including triage, investigation, resolution, and implementation of durable fixes
• Lead operational readiness for new product launches, covering UAT/test case design, playbooks, cutover plans, and post-launch stabilization
• Partner with Product, Risk, Compliance, Accounting, and Engineering to design processes, controls, and reporting that scale and meet regulatory expectations
• Establish monitoring and exception reporting frameworks (SLAs, KPIs, dashboards) and run incident triage with clear escalation paths
• Drive root cause analysis and post-mortems, translating learnings into product and process improvements
• Identify and implement automation and tooling to reduce operational friction and manual work

Required Skills and Experience:

• 5+ years in financial services or fintech operations with FCM, broker-dealer, or listed derivatives experience, emphasizing trade operations, margin, or exception management
• Demonstrated analytical problem-solving in exception-based operations with strong prioritization and escalation judgment
• Product launch and operational readiness experience, including requirements gathering, UAT execution, playbook development, and go-live support
• Effective cross-functional business partnering with Product, Engineering, Risk, and Compliance teams in fast-moving environments
• Working knowledge of listed derivatives characteristics and interest in blockchain/cryptocurrency markets
• Utilizes generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in workflow efficiency, cost, and quality.

Position ID: P77584

LinkedIn: #LI-Remote

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):

$130,900 - $154,000 USD

• Application Limit: Candidates may submit a maximum of 3 applications within a 6-month period.
• 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. Applicants with criminal histories will be considered consistent with applicable federal, state, and local laws.
• US Applicants: View Employee Rights, Know Your Rights, and E-Verify Notice of Participation.
• Accommodations: If you are an individual with a disability who needs a reasonable accommodation, email us your request and contact info at accommodations[at]coinbase.com. Need screen reading technology? Click here to download a free compatible screen reader and view the tutorial.
• Data Privacy & Arbitration: By submitting your application, you agree to our Candidate Privacy Notice. US applicants: By submitting your application, you agree to Arbitration of Disputes.