Senior Associate, FCM

As a Senior Associate, FCM at Coinbase, you own exception management and operational readiness for new product launches across US Futures, Prediction Markets, and Options. You ensure our derivatives infrastructure scales reliably while meeting regulatory expectations, partnering closely with Product, Risk, Compliance, Accounting, and Engineering teams.

What you'll do

• Own exception management across cash, positions, trades, and margin, including triage, investigation, resolution, and implementation of durable fixes
• Lead operational readiness for new product launches, covering UAT and test case design, playbooks, cutover plans, and post-launch stabilization
• Partner with Product, Risk, Compliance, Accounting, and Engineering to design processes, controls, and reporting that scale and meet regulatory expectations
• Establish monitoring and exception reporting frameworks including SLAs, KPIs, and dashboards, and run incident triage with clear escalation paths
• Drive root cause analysis and post-mortems, translating learnings into product and process improvements
• Identify and implement automation and tooling to reduce operational friction and manual work

What you bring

• 5+ years in financial services or fintech operations with FCM, broker-dealer, or listed derivatives experience, emphasizing trade operations, margin, or exception management
• Demonstrated analytical problem-solving in exception-based operations with strong prioritization and escalation judgment
• Product launch and operational readiness experience, including requirements gathering, UAT execution, playbook development, and go-live support
• Effective cross-functional business partnering with Product, Engineering, Risk, and Compliance teams in fast-moving environments
• Working knowledge of listed derivatives characteristics and interest in blockchain and cryptocurrency markets
• Ability to use generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in workflow efficiency, cost, and quality

What we offer

• Annual base salary of $130,900 to $154,000 USD (varies by location)
• Equity and bonus eligibility
• Benefits including medical, dental, vision, and 401(k)
• Quarterly in-person working sessions called "surges"
• Remote-first work environment

About Coinbase

Coinbase is a remote-first company on a mission to increase economic freedom. The FCM Operations team supports Coinbase Financial Markets, Inc. across US derivatives products.