Senior Manager Product Operations, FCM Ops

As a Senior Manager of Product Operations for FCM Ops at Coinbase, you own and continuously improve the operating model for Coinbase Financial Markets, Inc.'s US Futures, Options, and Prediction Markets businesses. You operate at both strategic and execution depth, using technical and regulatory expertise to identify where workflows, controls, and tooling may break as the business scales, then partner cross-functionally to design and drive scalable solutions through implementation.

What you'll do

• Own and continuously improve the FCM operating model across core workflows including trade flow management, position management, margin monitoring, internal reporting, regulatory reporting support, and business analytics
• Lead the design and build of scalable operational solutions across people, process, and tooling, focusing on reducing manual effort, increasing control quality, and improving operational resilience
• Monitor and track stability and process reliability using data and operational insights, provide transparency on health, categorize and prioritize enhancements, and lead delivery across a high-stakes regulated environment
• Partner closely with Product, Engineering, Risk, Accounting, Compliance, Legal, and external partners to shape requirements, influence roadmap priorities, and ensure business needs translate into practical, well-controlled solutions
• Drive strategic initiatives across launch readiness, process redesign, automation, control architecture, vendor tooling, and remediation of operational pain points
• Define future-state workflows and ownership models for new products, features, and business expansions, ensuring operational considerations are embedded early in design
• Establish and elevate documentation, policies, procedures, governance standards, and decision frameworks for critical workflows and strategic changes

What you bring

• Deep knowledge of listed derivatives, futures operations, and broker-dealer or FCM workflows
• Significant experience in operations, product operations, business operations, or program leadership in regulated financial services
• Strong hands-on technical knowledge of trade processing systems, books and records, and related infrastructure
• Experience leading large-scale transformation initiatives in the listed derivatives ecosystem
• Proven ability to operate autonomously at a senior individual contributor level with both strategic judgment and hands-on execution
• Strong track record leading ambiguous, cross-functional initiatives and turning them into durable process or tooling improvements
• Experience partnering with Product and Engineering to build scalable operating solutions
• Excellent analytical, prioritization, communication, and systems-thinking skills
• Ability to use generative AI responsibly, with strong human oversight to improve efficiency, cost, and quality

What we offer

• Annual base salary of $201,365-$236,900 USD, varying by 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 a platform committed to increasing economic freedom. The company is remote-first but not remote-only, with teams working together on strategic initiatives and product development.