Commercial Counsel
8 hours ago
🇺🇸 United States – Remote
💵 $178.5k - $210k / year
⏰ Full Time
🟡 Mid-level
🟠 Senior
🧑⚖️ General Counsel
🦅 H1B Visa Sponsor
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. • We want someone who believes in the power of crypto and blockchain technology to update the financial system. • We are looking for an exceptional attorney to join our Commercial Legal team. • You will be the attorney responsible for a variety of commercial transactions, and in particular, supporting the Base business development and product teams. • Negotiate first-of-a-kind, highly-tailored agreements with strategic partners and sophisticated counterparties in the finance, payments and digital currency space. • Provide practical advice on legal issues and risks, complex agreement structures and company policies in a risk-tolerant, but compliance-oriented environment. • Effectively collaborate with cross-functional teams (Business Development, Product/Engineering, Finance/Tax, Compliance) and legal colleagues to solve problems, build partnerships, and close deals quickly. • 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 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
• Current license in a U.S. state or international jurisdiction with JD or applicable equivalent, with four or more years of relevant transactional experience at a leading law firm, or comparable in house practice. • Interest in digital currency and blockchain technology. • Experience structuring complex transactions and negotiating and drafting commercial agreements with strategic partners in the tech, payments, and/or finance space. • Excellent judgment, analytic rigor, and business pragmatism. • Willingness to roll up sleeves (no job too big, no job too small). • Passion for the crypto industry. • Experience with regulated financial services firms.
Benefits
• target bonus + target equity + benefits (including medical, dental, vision and 401(k))
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