Business Operations, Senior Associate

As a Business Operations Senior Associate at Coinbase, you'll partner directly with senior leadership on the company's highest-priority strategic and operational challenges. You'll work primarily with product and sales leaders, structuring complex problems, building quantitative business cases, and translating data into executive-level recommendations that shape product and segment strategy.

What you'll do

• Structure complex, ambiguous strategic problems for Coinbase's leadership team and develop actionable recommendations backed by data and quantitative modeling.
• Build business cases and financial models that identify new opportunities and directly inform Institutional product and go-to-market strategy.
• Develop and maintain a deep understanding of competitive positioning, peer benchmarks, and the evolving crypto landscape to sharpen strategic recommendations.
• Design and implement experiments to validate hypotheses, measure impact, and drive measurable changes across Institutional products.
• Own problems end-to-end, from initial framing through analysis, recommendation, and implementation.
• Strengthen team capabilities by improving existing processes, frameworks, and operational tooling.

What you bring

• 5+ years of experience in management consulting, investment banking, corporate strategy, or product strategy, with demonstrated ownership of end-to-end strategic workstreams.
• Proven ability to build quantitative models and business cases that have directly influenced executive or leadership decisions.
• Familiarity with institutional finance, capital markets, or crypto/digital assets markets.
• A track record of delivering clear, concise written and verbal recommendations to senior stakeholders in ambiguous, fast-moving environments.
• The ability to utilise generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in workflow efficiency, cost, and quality.

Nice to have

• Exposure to SQL and BI tools such as Hex, Superset, or Looker.
• Experience with crypto analytics tools such as Dune Analytics or Etherscan.

What we offer

• Annual base salary of $148,835-$175,100 USD, depending on location.
• Equity and bonus eligibility.
• Benefits including medical, dental, vision, and 401(k).
• Remote-first work with quarterly in-person working sessions called "surges".

About Coinbase

Coinbase is on a mission to increase economic freedom. The company operates across Consumer, Institutional, Base, and Stablecoins segments, serving both retail and institutional participants in crypto and digital assets markets.