Senior Product Operations Lead — Regulated Derivatives

Coinbase; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 201,000 - 237,000; Full time

Job summary

Coinbase is seeking a senior operations professional to elevate the FCM operating model for US derivatives businesses. You will lead cross-functional efforts with Product, Engineering, Risk, and Compliance to implement scalable workflows, controls, and tooling in a high‑stakes regulated environment.

This role emphasizes autonomous leadership, strategic thinking, and execution, with a focus on reducing manual work, improving control quality, and ensuring operational resilience across trade flow,

Qualifications

• Deep knowledge of listed derivatives, futures operations, and broker‑dealer or FCM workflows.
• Significant experience in operations, product operations, business operations, or program leadership in regulated financial services.
• Strong hands‑on technical knowledge of trade processing systems, books and records, and related infrastructure.
• Experience leading large-scale transformation initiatives in the listed derivatives ecosystem.
• Proven ability to operate autonomously at a senior individual contributor level with both strategic judgment and hands‑on execution.
• Strong track record leading ambiguous, cross‑functional initiatives and turning them into durable process or tooling improvements.
• Experience partnering with Product and Engineering to build scalable operating solutions.
• Excellent analytical, prioritization, communication, and systems‑thinking skills.
• Uses generative AI responsibly, with strong human oversight to improve efficiency, cost, and quality.

Responsibilities

• Own and continuously improve the FCM operating model across core workflows including trade flow management, position management, margin monitoring, internal reporting, regulatory reporting support, and business analytics.
• Lead the design and build of scalable operational solutions across people, process, and tooling, with a focus on reducing manual effort, increasing control quality, and improving operational resilience.
• Monitor and track stability in the environment and across process reliability using data and operational insights; provide transparency on health and prioritize enhancements for a high-stakes regulated environment.
• Partner with Product, Engineering, Risk, Accounting, Compliance, Legal, and external partners to shape requirements, influence roadmap priorities, and ensure business needs are translated into practical, well‑controlled solutions.
• Drive strategic initiatives across launch readiness, process redesign, automation, control architecture, vendor tooling, and remediation of operational pain points.
• Define future‑state workflows and ownership models for new products, features, and business expansions, ensuring operational considerations are embedded early in design.
• Establish and elevate documentation, policies, procedures, governance standards, and decision frameworks for critical workflows and strategic changes.

Skills

Derivatives knowledge

Regulated financial services

Trade processing systems

Transformation leadership

Autonomous senior IC

Cross-functional leadership

Analytical thinking

AI in ops

Job description

Coinbase is seeking a senior operations professional to elevate the FCM operating model for US derivatives businesses. You will lead cross-functional efforts with Product, Engineering, Risk, and Compliance to implement scalable workflows, controls, and tooling in a high‑stakes regulated environment.

This role emphasizes autonomous leadership, strategic thinking, and execution, with a focus on reducing manual work, improving control quality, and ensuring operational resilience across trade flow,