Coinbase
We're building an open financial system for the world.
Digital Currency • Software • Payment Processing • Bitcoin • Technology
1001 - 5000
💰 $21.4M Post-IPO Equity on 2022-11
Associate General Counsel, Canada
September 7
Coinbase
We're building an open financial system for the world.
Digital Currency • Software • Payment Processing • Bitcoin • Technology
1001 - 5000
💰 $21.4M Post-IPO Equity on 2022-11
Description
• Work with business teams on securing required licenses and registrations for our Canadian entity and businesses. • Provide full product life-cycle counseling for a variety of global consumer and institutional products, and practical advice on associated legal issues and risks, complex agreement structures and company policies in a risk-tolerant, but compliance-oriented environment. • Stay abreast of and advise on digital currency and blockchain technology legal and regulatory issues. • Lead and assist with complex and global cross-functional efforts, driving and ensuring cross-functional alignment with other stakeholders (Local Management, Product/Engineering, Business Development, Finance/Tax, Compliance). • Effectively collaborate with those same cross-functional teams and legal colleagues to solve problems, build partnerships, and close deals quickly. • Proactively solve problems for 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. • Operate in a fast paced, demanding environment and quickly adjust to meet leadership's needs. • Recognize priority initiatives and effectively manage your clients and your advice to scale your advice and provide the right level of guidance for the request at hand. • Look around corners and creatively solve problems for the business as they plan, build, and execute their transactional and product roadmap. • Be a business partner, not just an attorney.
Requirements
• Currently practicing as an attorney in Canada, with active Canadian bar registration and 7+ years of legal experience. • Interest in digital currency and blockchain technology. • Expertise and experience working with Canadian financial services, securities, and crypto regulators • Experience counseling product teams in launching technology products and have a clear understanding of the legal underpinnings supporting these products. • Experience working and leading with cross-functional, globally located teams. • Familiarity with relevant money transmission laws, travel rules, global banking regulations, securities regulations, client money regimes and/or commodities regulations outside of Canada • Experience advising clients on risk mitigation across technology product platforms. • Experience working with and presenting to VP-level leadership. • Comfortable challenging the status quo and preconceived notions of what is possible. • Excellent judgment, analytical rigor, clear communication, and business pragmatism. • Top-notch analytical skills with experience owning projects from concept to finish. • Creativity, comfort and experience with oral solutions that help scale financial services businesses and technology solutions that help scale practices. • Comfort with risk-taking and creative problem-solving. • Intellectual curiosity and flexibility. • Team-oriented and collaborative.
Benefits
• target bonus • target equity • benefits (including medical, dental, and vision)
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