Global Head of Partner Success

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Oct 27

Coinbase is a platform that facilitates the easy conduct of the digital currency Bitcoin for consumers, businesses, and developers. This includes the buying and selling of Bitcoin, secure storage of Bitcoin in the cloud, and a suite of merchant tools.

At Coinbase, we're currently experiencing rapid growth in transactional activity due to media exposure in Bitcoin. We had an incredible 2013, growing 80x in users to over 800,000, closed a Series A and Series B, totalling $31M from investors such as Andreessen Horowitz and Union Square Ventures, doing all this with a team of only 8 people.

Coinbase was launched on June 1, 2012 by Brian Armstrong and Fred Ehrsam. It is based in San Francisco, California.

The company received a US$5 million investment from Union Square Ventures in December 2012. In May 2013, Coinbase raised US$7 million in Series A funding from Andreessen Horowitz, Union Square Ventures and Ribbit Capital. In December 2013, the company received a US$25 million investment, from the venture capital firms Andreessen Horowitz, Union Square Ventures (USV) and Ribbit Capital. On December 16, 2013, Coinbase was one of the many companies to receive a BitLicense from New York State Department of Financial Services (NYDFS). On March 26, 2014 Coinbase announced the completion of its Series B funding round. The company raised US$30 million from several investors including DFJ Growth, NYSE Euronext's NYX Fund, and USAA. In July 2014, it was announced that Coinbase had raised US$75 million in Series C funding from a variety of investors including DFJ Growth and NYSE Euronext's NYX Fund. In December 2014 Coinbase raised US$100 million in funding from several venture capital firms. The funding was led by DFJ Growth and included investments from NYSE Euronext's NYX Fund and USAA along with other firms such as Andreessen Horowitz.

Coinbase has built the world's leading compliant cryptocurrency platform serving over 68 million accounts in more than 100 countries. With multiple successful products, and our vocal advocacy for blockchain technology, we have played a major part in mainstream awareness and adoption of cryptocurrency. We are proud to offer an entire suite of products that are helping build the cryptoeconomy and increase economic freedom around the world.

There are a few things we look for across all hires we make at Coinbase, regardless of role or team. First, we look for signals that a candidate will thrive in a culture like ours, where we default to trust, embrace feedback, disrupt ourselves, and expect sustained high performance because we play as a championship team. Second, we expect all employees to commit to our mission-focused approach to our work. Finally, we seek people with the desire and capacity to build and share expertise in the frontier technologies of crypto and blockchain, in whatever way is most relevant to their role.

As Global Head of Partner Success, you will develop and execute comprehensive playbooks that define how Coinbase will provide world class service to our global network of asset issuers and developers -- from partner onboarding and account management to competitive research and community engagement. Working in heavily cross-functional teams, you will design, operationalize and scale the programs and processes required to deliver the most amazing Coinbase experience to our external partners and internal stakeholders -- while maintaining full compliance with legal, compliance and information security guardrails. You will also recruit, manage and coach a global all-star team of program managers, account managers, customer service agents, operations associates, data analysts and technical researchers.

What you’ll be doing (ie. job duties):

  • Scale Asset Listings by an Order of Magnitude
    • Develop, maintain and continuously approve the programs and policies required to meet our quarterly and yearly asset listings goals.
    • Provide our legal, compliance and information security teams with operational leadership to help them scale their asset evaluation processes.
    • Deliver the best  possible experience (CSAT) to our external partners and internal stakeholders by defining, measuring and exceeding key service level metrics (e.g., asset application review/approval rates, response times, cost targets).
  • Develop Top Talent
    • Lead recruiting, onboarding and performance management of a global team. Aim for at least 80% of your team making an outsized impact by exceeding the highest bars for what they do, and how they do it. 
    • Develop and manage a learning team that can design and facilitate training programs required to increase team size by at least 5x over the next year.
    • Train, manage and expand a global BPO team that can scale up and down as needed to support your team’s responsibilities, as well as ad hoc projects for important product initiatives.
  • Proliferate the Global Coinbase Ecosystem
    • Help shape product roadmaps by recommending new customer features through problem statements supported with data, insights and market intelligence.
    • Develop and manage a “voice of the customer” program that helps leaders across the globe connect with front line partner experiences. 
    • Create and operationalize scalable playbooks that define how we can support our Product teams beyond asset listings, such as decentralized applications (“dApps”) and other products and services across the rapidly evolving Coinbase ecosystem. 
  • Engage and Inspire the Crypto Community
    • Develop and facilitate scalable community engagement and outreach programs (e.g., online and offline events) that help Coinbase connect with asset issuers, developers and project teams all around the world.
    • Ensure Coinbase has an active voice wherever our partners are actively discussing crypto projects in online channels like Discord and Reddit, as well as offline channels like events and conferences.
    • Manage and scale our newly formed Crypto Intelligence team to provide internal stakeholders with research and insights that support workstream prioritizations, asset due diligence and risk monitoring, as well as reporting on emerging trends and investment opportunities.

What we look for in you (ie. job requirements):

  • You are an amazing and energetic leader
    • You have at least 10 years of general, program or operations leadership at product-led, mission driven organizations. You are excellent at building and scaling products and programs at fast-paced companies with global reach. 
    • You are passionate about recruiting and cultivating top talent. You know how to develop both junior and senior team members.  Building and scaling knowledge sharing programs comes naturally to you.
    • You can think both strategically and tactically. You have strong intellect, a broad perspective, and the confidence to engage with senior leaders across multiple disciplines.  You have strong organization skills with significant experience setting priorities, solving problems and multitasking.
  • You are an excellent communicator and smooth collaborator
    • You are amazing at written and spoken communications, and are able to translate complex topics into relatable concepts and actionable tasks.
    • You are skilled at providing concise, timely and actionable reports to senior leadership on topics ranging from project updates and emerging trends to critical blockers and recommended solutions.
    • You can work confidently with cross-functional teams on complex legal, compliance and information security concepts. You know how to  identify, frame and lead the resolution of “hot issues” from both internal and external sources.
  • You have a highly analytical owner’s mindset
    • You are a self-starter who works well independently and in teams within dynamic, rapidly changing workplaces. 
    • You are an expert in systems leadership and design thinking. You know how to amplify impact by connecting tools and technologies with people and processes. You rely heavily on data to inform and influence decisions and product roadmaps.
    • You are an amazing problem solver who embraces change and ambiguity. You know how to navigate your team within highly regulated and/or ambiguous landscapes. 

Nice to haves:

  • You have experience leading tech, fintech or marketplace companies in roles that require you to be nimble, innovative and resilient.

Commitment to Equal Opportunity

Coinbase is committed to diversity in its workforce and is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer.  All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, sex, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation or any other basis protected by applicable law. Coinbase will also consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with applicable federal, state and local law.  For US applicants, you may view Pay Transparency, Employee Rights and Equal Employment Opportunity is the Law notices by clicking on their corresponding links.  Additionally, Coinbase participates in the E-Verify program in certain locations, as required by law.    

Coinbase is also committed to providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation because of a disability for any part of the employment process, please send an e-mail to accommodations@ coinbase.com and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information.  For quick access to screen reading technology compatible with this site click here to download a free compatible screen reader (free step by step tutorial can be found here). Please contact accommodations@ coinbase.com for additional information or to request accommodations.

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