Associate General Counsel, Institutional Legal

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Posted Date:

October 1, 2025

Employment Type:

Not specified

Work Arrangement:

Remote

Skills & Technologies

Legal & Compliancepreferred

Contact Information

Job Description

Ready to be pushed beyond what you think you’re capable of?

At Coinbase, our mission is to increase economic freedom in the world. It’s a massive, ambitious opportunity that demands the best of us, every day, as we build the emerging onchain platform — and with it, the future global financial system.

To achieve our mission, we’re seeking a very specific candidate. We want someone who is passionate about our mission and who believes in the power of crypto and blockchain technology to update the financial system. We want someone who is eager to leave their mark on the world, who relishes the pressure and privilege of working with high caliber colleagues, and who actively seeks feedback to keep leveling up. We want someone who will run towards, not away from, solving the company’s hardest problems.

Our work culture is intense and isn’t for everyone. But if you want to build the future alongside others who excel in their disciplines and expect the same from you, there’s no better place to be.

While many roles at Coinbase are remote-first, we are not remote-only. In-person participation is required throughout the year. Team and company-wide offsites are held multiple times annually to foster collaboration, connection, and alignment. Attendance is expected and fully supported.

The Associate General Counsel (Institutional Legal) role will be based in the UK, EU, or US working as part of the Institutional Legal team covering derivatives, international markets and professional trading clients including banks, brokers, hedge funds, market makers corporates and other professional traders. The team consists of a small but highly experienced group of lawyers from a combination of traditional finance and fintech backgrounds. The role reports into a director who leads the Institutional Product Legal team, and covers institutional products focusing on derivatives and financing products in the UK, EU and other G20 geos. We’re looking for a lawyer with exceptional product development, regulatory and negotiation skills developed within the traditional derivatives, structured finance and/or prime brokerage sectors. A sense of curiosity, flexibility and adventure combined with the desire to make an impact at the intersection of crypto and traditional global markets is essential.

What you’ll be doing (ie. job duties):

    • Independently lead projects to launch cutting edge products for a variety of global derivatives and financing initiatives. Provide practical and actionable advice on nuanced, novel legal issues and risks, complex agreement structures and company policies in a risk-tolerant and compliance-oriented environment.
    • Lead structuring and regulatory advice in the context of bespoke, high-profile agreements with strategic partners and sophisticated counterparties in the finance, derivatives and digital currency space.
    • Help shape and advise on cutting edge digital currency and blockchain technology regulatory issues, particularly with respect to derivatives, leveraged and structured transactions and complex margin lending arrangements in the UK, EU, Middle East and elsewhere.
    • Effectively and independently lead complex and global cross-functional efforts, driving and ensuring cross-functional alignment with other stakeholders (Institutional Sales, Business Development, Product/Engineering, Finance/Tax, Compliance) to solve problems, build partnerships, and ship products to market.
    • Apply a solutions-oriented approach to problems raised by the business as they plan and execute on an aggressive global growth plan, develop scaled strategies for addressing risk in business-centric ways and build commercial processes that allow the business flexibility and freedom to move quickly.
    • Look around corners anticipating steps ahead, and creatively guide the business to plan, build, and execute transactional and product roadmaps.
    • Be a key business partner, not just a lawyer.

What we look for in you (ie. job requirements):

    • Qualified attorney in England and Wales, a financial hub within the European Union or in a major US jurisdiction with at least 7 years experience working in a financial services institution (e.g. an exchange or central clearing counterparty, broker dealer / asset manager, trading firm, bank or brokerage) or in a law firm supporting such clients (ideally with some in-house experience).
  • Interest and experience with digita