Role at a glance
- Salary
- $130.9K – $154K/yr
- Location
- Remote - US Remote - US - Zone 1 (Job Requisitions Only)
- Work arrangement
- Remote
- Employment
- Full-time
- Experience
- 5+ years in financial services or fintech operations
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Role Summary
The FCM Operations team supports Coinbase Financial Markets, Inc. across US Futures, Prediction Markets, and Options. This role owns exception management and operational readiness for new product launches, helping derivatives infrastructure scale while meeting regulatory expectations.
What You'll Do
- Manage exceptions across cash, positions, trades, and margin, including triage, investigation, resolution, and durable fixes.
- Lead operational readiness for new product launches through UAT and test case design, playbooks, cutover plans, and post-launch...
- Partner with Product, Risk, Compliance, Accounting, and Engineering to design scalable processes, controls, and reporting.
- Establish monitoring and exception reporting frameworks, including SLAs, KPIs, and dashboards, and run incident triage.
- 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.
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View full postingQualifications
5+ years in financial services or fintech operations with FCM, broker-dealer, or listed derivatives experience, emphasizing trade operations, margin, or exception management; analytical problem-solving; product launch and operational readiness experience; cross-functional business partnering; working knowledge of listed derivatives characteristics; responsible use of generative AI with human oversight.
Required
- 5+ years in financial services or fintech operations with FCM, broker-dealer, or listed derivatives experience
- Trade operations, margin, or exception management experience
- Analytical problem-solving in exception-based operations
- Product launch and operational readiness experience, including requirements gathering, UAT execution, playbook development, and go-live...
- Cross-functional business partnering with Product, Engineering, Risk, and Compliance teams
- Working knowledge of listed derivatives characteristics
- Responsible use of generative AI with human oversight
Preferred
- Interest in blockchain/cryptocurrency markets
Original job description
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Original job description
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Ready to do the most impactful work of your career? At Coinbase, we are uncompromising on our mission to increase economic freedom. 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. If you're ready to build the future of finance alongside people who refuse to settle for "good enough," you belong here. Coinbase is a remote-first, but not remote-only company. Expect to get together quarterly for intense in-person working sessions called “surges.” learn more about working at Coinbase.
Senior Associate, FCM
The FCM Operations team supports Coinbase Financial Markets, Inc. across US Futures, Prediction Markets, and Options by managing back-office operations including trade flow management, position management, margin monitoring, regulatory reporting, and business analytics. As a Senior Associate, FCM, you'll own exception management and operational readiness for new product launches, ensuring our derivatives infrastructure scales reliably while meeting regulatory expectations.
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/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 (SLAs, KPIs, 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
- 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/cryptocurrency markets
- Utilizes generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in workflow efficiency, cost, and quality.
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About the company
Coinbase
Large Enterprise
Coinbase is a leading cryptocurrency exchange platform that enables users to buy, sell, and manage digital currencies such as Bitcoin, Ethereum, and many others. Founded in 2012, the company is headquartered in San Francisco and has grown to serve millions of users globally, providing a secure and user-friendly experience for both novice and experienced traders. Coinbase aims to create an open financial system for the world, advocating for the adoption of digital currencies while ensuring compliance with regulatory standards in various markets. Through its innovative products and services, Coinbase seeks to empower individuals and institutions to transact in cryptocurrencies with confidence.
Coinbase is a leading cryptocurrency exchange platform that enables users to buy, sell, and manage digital currencies such as Bitcoin, Ethereum, and many others. Founded in 2012, the company is headquartered in San Francisco and has grown to serve millions of users globally, providing a secure and user-friendly experience for both novice and experienced traders. Coinbase aims to create an open financial system for the world, advocating for the adoption of digital currencies while ensuring compliance with regulatory standards in various markets. Through its innovative products and services, Coinbase seeks to empower individuals and institutions to transact in cryptocurrencies with confidence.