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Overview
Join Coinbase as a Senior Associate in FCM, managing back-office operations for financial markets. Drive operational readiness for new product launches and ensure compliance with regulatory expectations. Ready to do the most impactful work of your career? At Coinbase, we are uncompromising on our mission to increase economic freedom. The bar is high, the environment is intense, and we like it that way. This isn't a place for complacency, it’s a place to be pushed past your perceived limits. If you're ready to build the future of finance alongside people who refuse to settle for "good enough," you belong here. Coinbase is a remote-first, but not remote-only company. Expect to get together quarterly for intense in-person working sessions called “surges.”
What you'll do
- •Own exception management across cash, positions, trades, and margin, including triage, investigation, resolution, and implementation of durable fixes
- •Lead operational readiness for new product launches, covering UAT/test case design, playbooks, cutover plans, and post-launch stabilization
- •Partner with Product, Risk, Compliance, Accounting, and Engineering to design processes, controls, and reporting that scale and meet regulatory expectations
- •Establish monitoring and exception reporting frameworks (SLAs, KPIs, dashboards) and run incident triage with clear escalation paths
- •Drive root cause analysis and post-mortems, translating learnings into product and process improvements
- •Identify and implement automation and tooling to reduce operational friction and manual work
Pay Transparency Notice
- •Base salary varies by location (see range below). Total compensation may also include equity and bonus eligibility, and benefits (medical, dental, vision, 401(k)).
- •Annual base salary range (excluding equity and bonus): $130,900 — $154,000 USD
Equal Opportunity Employer
- •Coinbase is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or genetic information.
- •Applicants with criminal histories will be considered consistent with applicable federal, state, and local laws.
Required Skills and Experience
- •5+ years in financial services or fintech operations with FCM, broker-dealer, or listed derivatives experience, emphasizing trade operations, margin, or exception management
- •Demonstrated analytical problem-solving in exception-based operations with strong prioritization and escalation judgment
- •Product launch and operational readiness experience, including requirements gathering, UAT execution, playbook development, and go-live support
- •Effective cross-functional business partnering with Product, Engineering, Risk, and Compliance teams in fast-moving environments
- •Working knowledge of listed derivatives characteristics and interest in blockchain/cryptocurrency markets
- •Utilizes generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in workflow efficiency, cost, and quality.