Associate General Counsel, Coinbase

EU Legal

£148.5-165k

+ Target bonus; + Target equity; +Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)

Senior and Expert level
Remote in Ireland
Coinbase

The world’s leading exchange for digital currencies

Job no longer available

Coinbase

The world’s leading exchange for digital currencies

1001+ employees

FintechB2CB2BCryptocurrencySaaS

Job no longer available

£148.5-165k

+ Target bonus; + Target equity; +Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)

Senior and Expert level
Remote in Ireland

1001+ employees

FintechB2CB2BCryptocurrencySaaS

Company mission

Their mission is to create an open financial system for the world and to be the leading global brand for helping people convert digital currency into and out of their local currency.

Role

Who you are

  • Qualified solicitor in UK, Ireland, Germany or Luxembourg with approximately 6 -10 years experience working in a regulated e-money / payment services or financial services institution in Ireland (e.g. e-money issuer, payment service firm, broker dealer / asset manager) or in a law firm supporting such clients (ideally with some previous in-house experience)
  • Deep familiarity with financial services regulations (e.g. MIFID, PSD2) and digital asset regulations (e.g. Markets in Crypto Assets regulation (MiCAR) and VASP registration regimes) is strongly preferred
  • Experience dealing with regulators - particularly the Central Bank of Ireland - and/or other key European financial services regulators is preferred
  • Ability to manage complex projects involving coordination across multiple time zones, challenging legal issues and tight deadlines
  • Ability to work closely with Compliance to deliver coordinated input to the business and other stakeholders
  • Ability to exercise initiative and drive effective internal decision making across complex workstreams to enable Coinbase to meet its long-term goals
  • Ability to manage a large and varied workload and exercise excellent judgment, analytical rigour and commercial pragmatism. Must be able to provide crisp and practical legal advice to business executives across a broad range of matters with limited supervision
  • Highly driven and proactive. Must be keen to create process and structure and strive for continuous improvement
  • Must be flexible, able to multitask, detail-oriented, and enjoy fast paced and high-intensity work
  • Exceptional legal writing abilities and skilled at synthesizing the perspectives of various stakeholders
  • Comfortable working independently in a fast-paced, growth-stage environment, subject to regulatory scrutiny, operating excellence and Coinbase’s demanding standards to operate the world’s most trusted digital currency exchange

Desirable

  • Enthusiasm for and a basic understanding of digital currencies/blockchain

What the job involves

  • Work closely as legal advisor to business executives and the Compliance team to ensure compliance of EU and international operations with applicable e-money / payment services and financial services law and regulation and digital currency exchange best practices
  • Provide legal guidance to international operating entities. Includes responsibility for ensuring legal and regulatory compliance of new products and services, inter-company operating arrangements, commercial relationships and banking partnerships, retail and institutional terms of business, assisting the business in rolling out products, services, or marketing/promotional efforts to new jurisdictions, and co-ordinating support and advice with the U.S. based legal team as appropriate
  • Advise business leads and other key clients of new regulatory trends and developments involving digital currency in Europe and other key international jurisdictions, and help enable Coinbase’s advocacy for effective regulation
  • Continuously assess operating risks and legal needs and ensure that the legal department is equipped to provide outstanding support as Coinbase’s international business continues to grow
  • Manage outside counsel effectively where they are engaged in connection with specific projects, while establishing your own strong domain expertise

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Insights

Led by a woman
Top investors

-24% employee growth in 12 months

Company

Company benefits

  • 12 weeks maternity/paternity leave
  • Vision and dental care
  • Commuter benefits
  • Learning and development budget
  • Unlimited paid time off policy
  • Work from home opportunities
  • Health insurance

Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)

Oct 2018

$300m

GROWTH EQUITY VC

Oct 2018

$108.1m

SERIES D

Total funding: $633.4m

Our take

Coinbase allows its users to create their own crypto wallets and start buying or selling cryptocurrencies by connecting with their bank accounts. It also provides a series of merchant payment processing systems and tools that support transactions with many popular websites.

Coinbase has recently made a big push to broaden its services away from consumers and they want to cater services from institutional investors.

Coinbase currently offers one of the largest selection of cryptocurrency assets - over 10,000 but does not allow trading on all of them. The company wisely keeps such offerings to the most stable assets however, the list is always expanding. Coinbase see a much wider adoption of cryptocurrency and tokens in the future, and plan to expand potentially to millions in the future. It speaks volumes to Coinbase's goals of wider global adoption that former UK Finance Minister George Osborne is now an Advisor at the company.

Coinbase's lofty ambitions paid off in it being the first crypto listing on the NASDAQ. The company has weathered several bull and bear runs in the cryptocurrency industry through diversification of its offerings, including wallet-as-a-service technology for crypto platforms, and has acquired healthy coffers of cryptocurrency assets. The aim is to eventually operate independently of the volatility surrounding cryptocurrencies.

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