Senior Associate, FCM

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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.

• 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.

Position : P77584

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$130,900—$154,000 USD

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