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Form of workWe are looking for an experienced Canadian counsel to join our Product Legal team. This position will report into our International Legal branch for Consumer+ Legal, and will work closely with a number of global cross functional teams in legal, product, commercial and related teams. You will be responsible for senior legal leadership for our growing Canadian crypto business, which will offer a number of retail and institutional products, and be responsible for regulatory responses and initiatives, including licensing and registration, regulator engagement, OC management, and legal advocacy for Coinbase within Canada. We are looking for candidates with prior experience with financially regulated products, particularly securities and derivatives, and prior experience working with national and provincial regulators. In-house experience is a plus. Preference for prior experience and/or interest in cryptocurrency markets and custody.
What you'll be doing (i.e., job duties):
- 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.
What we look for in you (i.e., job 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.
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