Senior Associate, Regulatory Change Management

Senior Associate Of Regulatory Change Management

Ready to be pushed beyond what you think you're capable of? At Coinbase, our mission is to increase economic freedom in the world. It's a massive, ambitious opportunity that demands the best of us, every day, as we build the emerging onchain platform and with it, the future global financial system. To achieve our mission, we're seeking a very specific candidate. We want someone who is passionate about our mission and who believes in the power of crypto and blockchain technology to update the financial system. We want someone who is eager to leave their mark on the world, who relishes the pressure and privilege of working with high caliber colleagues, and who actively seeks feedback to keep leveling up. We want someone who will run towards, not away from, solving the company's hardest problems. Our work culture is intense and isn't for everyone. But if you want to build the future alongside others who excel in their disciplines and expect the same from you, there's no better place to be. While many roles at Coinbase are remote-first, we are not remote-only. In-person participation is required throughout the year. Team and company-wide offsites are held multiple times annually to foster collaboration, connection, and alignment. Attendance is expected and fully supported.

What You'll Be Doing

The Senior Associate of Regulatory Change Management (RCM) will support the management, execution and continued improvement of the RCM function. Responsibilities will include the following :

• Legal & Regulatory Obligations Inventory
• Support the maintenance and expansion of the Legal & Regulatory Obligations Inventory
• Reporting
• Enhance and strengthen quarterly metrics and reporting
• Prepare and distribute quarterly metrics / reporting
• Regulatory Change Monitoring and Management
• Support Legal Teams' horizon scanning efforts
• Support Legal Teams' analysis of applicability and impact of regulatory changes
• Support tracking of implementation of process / control changes and post-implementation reviews
• Provide advice and support on change management plans and execution as needed
• Program Administration
• Perform QA of data on Regology and Archer platforms
• Refine approach and execute QA / validation of alert feed sources / keywords
• Assist with review of new content providers and horizon scanning workflow tools (as needed)
• Support incident management for quarterly risk reporting
• Support stakeholder questions / management
• Support oversight of workflows to ensure that they are functioning properly
• Support policies and procedures drafting and maintenance
• Manage internal team documents and records
• Other Project Work
• Risk / Control and Data Mapping
• Support LRO, risk and control mapping, including support with implementation of a vendor
• Support data mapping for Risk Assessments / RCSAs / Policies and Procedures

What We Look For In You

Track record of building programs / processes from the ground up; in particular experience building and executing regulatory change monitoring and change management programs / processes. Experience building out a legal / regulatory obligations library or exposure to the process. Working knowledge of laws, regulations, risk management practices for financial services. Track record of delivering work to a high quality standard. Hands-on involvement in developing and producing metrics and reporting. Strong written / verbal communication, critical thinking and problem-solving skills. Highly-motivated, analytical, organized, innovative and adaptive. Good presentation skills, multi-tasking capability, team-oriented, and a self-starter. Proven ability to work collaboratively with global partners in other functional units. Flexibility to work extended hours to meet deadlines, when necessary. Ability to work with limited direction from management. Expertise in PowerPoint / Google Slides and Excel / Google Sheets. Juris Doctor.

Nice to haves : Experience with and / or keen interest in cryptocurrency. Experience working at a law firm and as in-house counsel. Experience with or previous exposure to financial services regulators. Experience with project / vendor management. Experience with technology projects, including the development of business requirement documents (BRDs) and exposure to AI tooling.

Pay Transparency Notice : Depending on your work location, the target annual salary for this position can range as detailed below. Full time offers from Coinbase also include bonus eligibility + equity eligibility

Commitment to Equal Opportunity Coinbase is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, sex, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation or any other basis protected by applicable law. Coinbase will also consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with applicable federal, state and local law.