Coinbase
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Coinbase's Legal organization is at an inflection point. We manage corporate governance for 60+ global subsidiaries, public company reporting, equity programs, a venture portfolio, M&A, every institutional client agreement, and product counsel for all of Coinbase's PGs — from tokenized equities to stablecoin launches. Our clients are the CEO, COO, and every product group at the company. We work at the speed of a crypto startup with the compliance requirements of a public financial institution.
We are not looking to incrementally improve. We are looking to reimagine how legal work gets done at scale — replacing manual, high-volume workflows with AI-native systems, building an agent platform where today's junior lawyers become tomorrow's agent builders, and proving a model for how every non-technical org at Coinbase can transform with AI.
We have a roadmap, we have playbooks, and we have deep domain knowledge. What we need now is a technical architect to build the platform that brings this vision to life.
Embed with Legal leadership — Spend meaningful time alongside the VP of Legal, the CCO, and their teams. Shadow workflows, join planning sessions, and develop a ground-level understanding of what's actually slowing the organization down. You can't engineer what you don't understand.
Identify and prototype the highest-leverage automation opportunities — Map the workflows, find the 20% that drives 80% of the pain, and ship working prototypes that prove the concept before scaling.
Set the Legal automation roadmap — Work with the VP of Legal and CCO to define a multi-quarter automation roadmap prioritized by business impact. Translate complex legal workflows into engineering requirements. Translate engineering constraints back to legal stakeholders. Fluency in both directions is non-negotiable.
Define the build-vs-buy strategy — Evaluate what Coinbase should build internally, what it should integrate, and what it should retire. You write the proposal, own the decision, and manage the outcome.
Deliver production-grade AI systems — Prototypes that don't scale aren't the goal. You're responsible for ensuring that what gets built is auditable, reliable, and maintainable — with the right guardrails, observability, and human-in-the-loop design baked in from day one.
Be the technical thought partner to Legal leadership — Serve as the technical conscience of the Legal org. Challenge assumptions, surface engineering risk early, and make sure both sides of the table — legal and engineering — stay aligned.
Job ID: P77646
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