# Senior Counsel, Product

**Company:** [Coinbase](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/coinbase)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** Legal
**Salary:** $225k – $265k/yr
**Experience:** 7+ years
**Skills:** j.d., u.s. state bar membership, money transmission laws, nydfs bitlicense, reg e, sec, cftc, cfpb, ftc section 5, udaap, bsa compliance, Generative AI
**Posted:** 2026-07-17

> Senior Counsel partnering with Coinbase's product, engineering, and design teams to provide legal guidance on stablecoins, payments, and crypto infrastructure. Requires J.D., 7+ years experience, deep payments/fintech regulatory knowledge, and ability to balance compliance with product velocity in novel crypto environments.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Own the legal advisory relationship for stablecoin, payments, and crypto infrastructure product teams, providing day-to-day legal, business, and strategic counsel throughout the product life cycle.
- Advise product managers and engineers on U.S. and international regulatory requirements, including money transmission laws, the GENIUS Act, NYDFS BitLicense, banking regulations, e-money issuance, securities regulation, and BSA compliance.
- Drive resolution of novel legal issues by identifying risks, partnering with specialized colleagues across Legal, and engaging outside counsel where needed.
- Partner cross-functionally with Compliance, Communications, Finance, Tax, Security, and Enterprise Risk Management to deliver cohesive legal guidance that enables product launches.
- Shape the team's approach to emerging regulatory frameworks, proactively advising product teams on how new laws and guidance affect product design, disclosures, and go-to-market strategy.
- Build scalable legal processes and playbooks that enable product teams to move quickly while maintaining compliance with applicable laws and regulations.

## Requirements
- J.D. with 7+ years of legal experience and active U.S. state bar membership.
- Meaningful time counseling product teams on technology product launches at a fintech, crypto/blockchain company, or consumer technology company (in-house experience preferred).
- Deep familiarity with major U.S. and global payments/financial services regulations (money transmission, NYDFS BitLicense, Reg E, SEC, CFTC, CFPB, FTC Section 5/UDAAP) and the ability to apply them to novel crypto product constructs.
- Demonstrated ability to provide risk-adjusted legal guidance, balancing regulatory compliance with product velocity in ambiguous or first-of-kind legal environments.
- Track record of embedding with cross-functional teams and independently driving legal workstreams from problem identification through resolution.
- Utilizes generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in workflow efficiency, cost, and quality.

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