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Salary: EUR 184,000 - 184,000 / annual
Coinbase's EU Legal team is seeking an Associate General Counsel to advise European businesses on complex regulatory and legal matters shaping product launches, market entry, and customer service. This is a senior individual contributor role with significant scope and autonomy.
You will partner with business leaders and Compliance to advise on EU and international e-money, payment services, financial services, and digital asset requirements. Key responsibilities include:
- Advising regional operating entities on new products and services, intercompany arrangements, commercial relationships, banking partnerships, and retail and institutional terms of business
- Guiding product launches, market expansion, and marketing initiatives across jurisdictions, coordinating with the US-based Legal team and other regional counsel
- Monitoring European and international legal and policy developments, explaining business implications, and supporting Coinbase's advocacy for effective digital asset regulation
- Assessing legal and regulatory risks, recommending practical solutions, and improving processes to support a growing international business
- Managing outside counsel on specialist matters and projects, maintaining internal expertise and accountability
Coinbase is a remote-first but not remote-only company, with quarterly in-person "surge" sessions. The role is based in Luxembourg on a hybrid basis.
REQUIREMENTS:
- Qualified lawyer in the UK, Ireland, France, or Luxembourg with 7+ years of relevant experience advising regulated EU e-money, payment services, or financial services institutions (in-house or law firm)
- Strong knowledge of EU financial services regulation, including PSD2, the Second Electronic Money Directive, and/or MiFID II
- Digital asset expertise, including MiCAR registration regimes, strongly preferred
- Experience engaging with European financial services regulators, particularly the CSSF or Central Bank of Ireland, preferred
- Ability to manage complex projects across functions and time zones, meet tight deadlines, and drive decisions with limited supervision
- Sound legal judgment, analytical rigor, and commercial pragmatism with excellent writing skills and ability to deliver concise, actionable advice to executives
- Ability to prioritize varied workload, work independently under regulatory scrutiny, and build processes that improve legal support; previous in-house experience preferred
- Ability to responsibly use generative AI tools and copilots (e.g., LibreChat, Gemini, Glean) in daily workflows, continuously learn as tools evolve, and apply human-in-the-loop practices
