Coinbase
Broker Dealer Operations, Senior Associate
Remote - USA · Senior
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About the role
- Ready to do the most impactful work of your career?
- The bar is high, the environment is intense, and we like it that way.
- This isn't a place for complacency, it's a place to be pushed past your perceived limits.
Responsibilities
- Own recurring broker-dealer operations workflows across one or more areas, including reconciliations, corporate actions, securities transfers, account maintenance, error processing, and regulatory reporting support.
- Perform daily order, trade, position, balance, and cash reconciliations between Coinbase and Apex records, investigating breaks, documenting root causes, and driving resolution to closure.
- Manage complex exceptions and time-sensitive incidents by coordinating remediation across Apex, Engineering, Product, Trading, CX, Compliance, Finance, Legal, and Risk, prioritizing by customer, financial, and regulatory impact.
- Build and maintain audit-ready documentation, including SOPs, runbooks, control checklists, and process maps, translating operational lessons into durable controls.
- Partner with Product and Engineering to define operational requirements, test new functionality, validate launch readiness, and improve tooling, dashboards, and automation.
- Identify systemic failure modes and lead process-improvement initiatives that reduce manual work, improve detection and recovery speed, and strengthen operational resilience.
- 5+ years in financial services operations, broker-dealer operations, clearing and settlement, trade support, or a related operational control function, with direct experience in the U.S. equities trade lifecycle (order processing, settlement, positions, cash movements, corporate actions, securities transfers).
- Proven ability to independently manage complex operational issues across multiple systems, driving investigation, escalation, remediation, and closure without relying on existing runbooks for every scenario.
- Track record of authoring or materially improving SOPs, runbooks, controls documentation, or audit-support materials in a regulated environment.
- Utilizes generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in workflow efficiency, cost, and quality.
Requirements
- Experience partnering with Engineering and Product to convert operational requirements into tooling, alerts, dashboards, or automated workflows.
- Required skills and experience:
Nice to have
- Hands-on experience with clearing firm or broker-dealer systems (Apex Clearing, Apex Ascend, or equivalent), plus working proficiency in SQL, Jira, and data-quality or workflow-automation tooling.
Compensation
- $130,900 - $154,000 USD
- Notice: Base salary varies by location (see range below).
- Total compensation may also include equity and bonus eligibility, and benefits (medical, dental, vision, 401(k)).
- Annual base salary range (excluding equity and bonus):
Benefits
- Total compensation may also include equity and bonus eligibility, and benefits (medical, dental, vision, 401(k)).
- Annual base salary range (excluding equity and bonus):
Company info
- At Coinbase, we are uncompromising on our mission to increase economic freedom.
- Coinbase, we are uncompromising on our mission to increase economic freedom.
Equal opportunity
- Equal Opportunity Employer: Coinbase is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
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