Product Manager, Coinbase
Consumer Trading
$180.4-212.2k
+ Target Bonus + Target Equity
Digital currency exchange
Job no longer available
Digital currency exchange
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$180.4-212.2k
+ Target Bonus + Target Equity
1001+ employees
Company mission
To increase economic freedom for more than 1 billion people.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years of experience as a Product Manager and/or Founder, including experience working on consumer products
- Expertise in trading and a strong grasp of financial concepts (i.e. markets, derivative instruments, trading strategies)
- Experience building 0 to 1 products with high ambiguity and creatively solving problems given any constraint without giving up
- Strong design sense about product decisions and an understanding of how to create delightful experiences
- Ability to influence and shape strategic decisions/discussions
- Experience working with and balancing the needs of a wide variety of stakeholders including users, design, and UXR using both qualitative and quantitative data
- An entrepreneurial mindset with the ability to succeed in a fast-paced environment
- Demonstrated passion for cryptocurrency, financial markets, and the Coinbase mission
Desirable
- Experience in brokerage, market-making, institutional trading, or derivatives products (options, futures, perps, event contracts)
- Crypto-forward experience, including familiarity with onchain activity such as interacting with Ethereum addresses, using ENS, and engaging with dApps or blockchain-based services
What the job involves
- As a Product Manager on the Coinbase Trading team, you will play a pivotal role in enhancing the trading experience for our users
- You will lead the ideation, development, and execution of features aimed at improving critical user journeys and driving trading efficiency
- Additionally, you will leverage your understanding of trading behaviors to provide buy, sell, and convert functionality to customers on our flagship application and/or to enable advanced trading strategies for our highest volume users
- Enhance Critical User Journeys: Lead the development of features aimed at improving critical user journeys for traders. Identify pain points and user motivations to make trading, which some think is complex and scary, into an easy and delightful product
- Build a Roadmap: Understand trading behaviors and market trends to conceptualize and implement a roadmap that enables derivatives traders to unlock new strategies on web, mobile (iOS/Android), and through API
- Data-Driven Decision Making: Define metrics and run experiments to evaluate CUJ efficiency and trading execution. Leverage data to continuously optimize product features
- Own product development from conception to launch, iterating along the way until you create the world’s best products for leverage and hedging
- Scale and grow usage, ensuring users have access to the products when needed
- Collaborate cross-functionally with engineering, design, data, marketing and cross-functional teams to develop and steer product roadmap
- Define and analyze metrics to guide product development
- Align teams on a shared vision and steer execution on that vision
Our take
Coinbase has built a reputation as one of the most accessible entry points into the world of cryptocurrency. With features like crypto wallets, direct bank account linking, and merchant payment tools, it's helping bring crypto into the mainstream. But the company isn't just relying on its early success, it's evolving fast to stay relevant in a rapidly changing market.
For example, its doubled down on institutional clients, now serving as the custodian for the majority of approved Bitcoin and Ethereum ETFs. Its Prime platform also offers a full suite of services for hedge funds, asset managers, and financial institutions. As demand for regulated crypto products rise globally (particularly in Asia), Coinbase is ready to expand.
Its also making moves to engage with younger audiences, by partnering with Riot Games to sponsor global eSports events for League of Legends and Valorant. This partnership highlights Coinbase's strategy to integrate Web 3.0 technologies into mainstream entertainment, aiming to bridge the gap between gaming and cryptocurrency for a new generation of users.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-24% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 9 rounds)
Oct 2018
$300m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Aug 2017
$108.1m
SERIES D
Total funding: $528.5m
Leadership
Brian Armstrong
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously founded UniversityTutor.com, also worked as a Software Engineer at AirBnb
Alessia Haas
(CFO)Previously held various head positions, including VP at GE Healthcare, Director at Merrill Lynch and CFO at CIT Bank and Oz Management
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