Senior Counsel

Overview

CoinTracker makes cryptocurrency portfolio tracking and tax compliance simple. CoinTracker enables consumers and businesses to seamlessly track their cryptocurrency portfolio, investment performance, taxes, and more. We are a globally distributed team on a mission to enable everyone in the world to use crypto with peace of mind. Learn more about our mission, culture, and hiring process.

Some things we’re proud of

• 🛠️ Building foundational tools in the cryptocurrency space

• 📄 Over 1M tax forms generated

• 💲 $250B+ in cryptocurrency is tracked on CoinTracker (~over 5% of the entire crypto market)

• 🤝 Partnered with Coinbase, H&R Block, Intuit TurboTax, MetaMask, OpenSea, Phantom, Solana, and Uniswap

• 🗺️ Founders: Jon previously built TextNow (200M downloads), Chandan was previously a product manager at Google & Google[x]

• 💼 $100M+ venture capital raised from Accel, General Catalyst, Y Combinator, Initialized Capital, Coinbase Ventures, Kraken Ventures, Intuit Ventures, 776 Ventures, Balaji Srinivasan, Claire Hughes Johnson, Gokul Rajaram, Serena Williams, Zach Perret

• 🌴 Awesome benefits

Your mission

Serve as CoinTracker's first dedicated legal hire, leading the Legal function end-to-end — including commercial agreements, product counsel, corporate governance, and people matters — while enabling product velocity by providing risk-calibrated, business-oriented legal guidance.

Your one-year outcomes

• Trusted legal partner across the company. You proactively surface legal risks, provide clear guidance on product decisions, and are seen by the team as an accelerant — not a blocker.

• All commercial agreements handled in-house. Partner agreements, customer contracts, and vendor agreements are drafted, negotiated, and managed internally at high quality.

• Product development moves faster with legal clarity. Product and engineering teams have clear legal guardrails and timely guidance for launching new features and product lines.

• Corporate and regulatory risk is well-managed. Governance, privacy, employment matters, and compliance are systematically addressed with risks surfaced early.

What you will do

• Lead the Legal function at CoinTracker across commercial, product, corporate, and people matters

• Draft, negotiate, and manage all commercial agreements (partnership deals, customer contracts, vendor agreements, DPAs)

• Partner with Product and Engineering to provide risk-calibrated legal guidance on new features, product lines, and international expansion

• Manage corporate governance, equity matters, and board-related legal work

• Handle people-related legal matters (employment agreements, policies, compliance)

• Build legal infrastructure from scratch: contract templates, playbooks, and self-serve resources

• Manage external counsel relationships for specialized matters (IP, regulatory, litigation)

• Advise on crypto regulatory developments and their implications for CoinTracker's product

What we look for

• Role-agnostic

  • Impact: Demonstrated ability to drive outsized business impact

  • Mission alignment: Strong personal conviction in crypto; hungry to make progress on our mission of enabling everyone to use crypto with peace of mind.

  • Trust: Say what you believe. Do what you say. Take ownership broadly

  • Communication: Clear and concise; able to distill complex legal concepts into plain language

• Role-specific

  • 7-10 years of legal experience post-law school with a mix of law firm and in-house

  • Strong commercial drafting and negotiation skills — can build contracts from scratch

  • Experience serving as product counsel, partnering with Product/Engineering teams

  • Demonstrated ability to provide risk-calibrated advice that enables (not blocks) product development

  • Comfortable operating in ambiguous regulatory environments

  • Experience at a high-growth technology company

  • Self-starter who thrives with autonomy

• Nice to have

  • Top-tier law firm background (Goodwin, Cooley, Wilson Sonsini, Latham, etc.)

  • Experience at a crypto or fintech company

  • Familiarity with crypto regulatory landscape (SEC, FinCEN, state regulations, MiCA)

  • Background in data privacy (GDPR, CCPA)

The starting salary for this position is between $201,000 - $236,000 USD. Candidate's location does not impact the posted salary range.

The actual compensation offered will be based on a variety of job-related factors including relevant skills, education, and experience. This position also includes equity in CoinTracker and benefits like medical, dental, vision, 401(k), life insurance, and PTO.