Senior Counsel, Product

Coinbase; Augusta (ME); On-site; USD 225,000 - 265,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote-friendly

Job summary

Coinbase is seeking a Senior Counsel for Product on the Product Legal team to partner with product, engineering, and design as we scale stablecoins, payments, and crypto infrastructure. You will counsel across ideation to launch, shaping strategy while navigating diverse regulatory regimes.

You will embed with cross-functional teams, balance compliance with product velocity, and help implement responsible use of AI and scalable legal playbooks to move quickly and legally.

Qualifications

• J.D. with 7+ years of legal experience and active U.S. state bar membership.
• Experience counseling product, engineering, and design teams on technology launches.
• Strong understanding of fintech, crypto, and regulatory regimes.

Responsibilities

• Own the legal advisory relationship for product teams through the lifecycle.
• Advise on U.S. and international regulatory requirements affecting crypto products.
• Drive risk-based, pragmatic legal guidance to enable product velocity.
• Collaborate with Compliance, Finance, and other functions on launches.
• Shape regulatory strategy as new laws impact product design and disclosures.
• Build scalable legal processes and playbooks for speed and compliance.

Skills

J.D. with 7+ years

Active U.S. state bar

Tech product launches

Fintech/crypto experience

Generative AI usage

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 Senior Counsel, Product on the Product Legal team, you'll serve as the primary legal partner to product, engineering, and design teams building stablecoins, payments, and crypto infrastructure at Coinbase. This team provides full product life-cycle counseling across some of the most novel areas in fintech and crypto law. You'll shape how Coinbase navigates complex regulatory landscapes while shipping products that bring crypto into the financial mainstream, advising from ideation through launch and collaborating cross-functionally with Privacy, Regulatory, Compliance, and Finance.

What you'll do:

• Own the legal advisory relationship for stablecoin, payments, and crypto infrastructure product teams, providing day-to-day legal, business, and strategic counsel throughout the product life cycle.

• Advise product managers and engineers on U.S. and international regulatory requirements, including money transmission laws, the GENIUS Act, NYDFS BitLicense, banking regulations, e-money issuance, securities regulation, and BSA compliance.

• Drive resolution of novel legal issues by identifying risks, partnering with specialized colleagues across Legal, and engaging outside counsel where needed.

• Partner cross-functionally with Compliance, Communications, Finance, Tax, Security, and Enterprise Risk Management to deliver cohesive legal guidance that enables product launches.

• Shape the team's approach to emerging regulatory frameworks, proactively advising product teams on how new laws and guidance affect product design, disclosures, and go-to-market strategy.

• Build scalable legal processes and playbooks that enable product teams to move quickly while maintaining compliance with applicable laws and regulations.

Required Skills and Experience:

• J.D. with 7+ years of legal experience and active U.S. state bar membership, including meaningful time counseling product teams on technology product launches at a fintech, crypto/blockchain company, or consumer technology company (in-house experience preferred).

• Deep familiarity with major U.S. and global payments/financial services regulations (money transmission, NYDFS BitLicense, Reg E, SEC, CFTC, CFPB, FTC Section 5/UDAAP) and the ability to apply them to novel crypto product constructs.

• Demonstrated ability to provide risk-adjusted legal guidance, balancing regulatory compliance with product velocity in ambiguous or first-of-kind legal environments.

• Track record of embedding with cross-functional teams and independently driving legal workstreams from problem identification through resolution.

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

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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):

$224,995—$264,700 USD

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