Business Operations Senior Associate, Institutional

Coinbase
United States
Remote

Who this role is best for

Best suited to senior professionals with management consulting or investment banking experience who thrive in ambiguous, fast-moving environments and have exposure to institutional finance or crypto markets.

Best fit for

  • Senior strategists who can own end-to-end strategic workstreams
    — “demonstrated ownership of end-to-end strategic workstreams
  • Quantitative modelers comfortable influencing executive decisions
    — “build quantitative models and business cases that have directly influenced executive
  • Professionals familiar with institutional finance or crypto markets
    — “Familiarity with institutional finance, capital markets, or crypto/digital assets markets

Things to consider

  • Quarterly in-person working sessions required despite remote-first policy
    — “Expect to get together quarterly for intense in-person working sessions
  • High-intensity environment with emphasis on pushing past limits
    — “The bar is high, the environment is intense

How to stand out

  • Showcase specific examples where your models changed product strategy
    — “directly inform Institutional product and go-to-market strategy
  • Highlight experience designing experiments to validate hypotheses
    — “Design and implement experiments to validate hypotheses
  • Demonstrate how you improved processes beyond just analysis
    — “Strengthen team capabilities by improving existing processes
Pace · SteadyCollaboration · HighAutonomy · MediumDecision Impact · CompanyLevel · Senior

Derived from job-description analysis by Serendipath's career intelligence engine.

What success looks like

  • Developed actionable recommendations for senior leadership
  • Built business cases and financial models for product and go-to-market strategy
  • Improved processes and frameworks for business operations
Typical background
Experience in management consulting, investment banking, or corporate strategy

Skills & requirements

Required

Business OperationsStrategic PlanningQuantitative AnalysisFinancial ModelingData-driven Decision MakingProcess Improvement

Preferred

Management ConsultingInvestment BankingProduct StrategyInstitutional FinanceCapital MarketsCrypto/digital Assets

Stack & domain

Management ConsultingInvestment BankingCorporate StrategyProduct StrategyQuantitative ModelingSQLBi ToolsCrypto Analytics ToolsGenerative AiLeadershipCommunicationProblem-solvingCollaborationFinanceTechnologyCrypto

About the role

Original posting from Coinbase

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.

As a Business Operations Senior Associate on the Business Operations & Strategy team within the Institutional group, you'll partner directly with senior leadership on Coinbase's highest-priority strategic and operational challenges. You'll work primarily with Institutional product and sales leaders, structuring complex problems, building quantitative business cases, and translating data into executive-level recommendations that shape product and segment strategy.

What you'll do:

Structure complex, ambiguous strategic problems for Coinbase's leadership team and develop actionable recommendations backed by data and quantitative modeling.

Build business cases and financial models that identify new opportunities and directly inform Institutional product and go-to-market strategy.

Develop and maintain a deep understanding of competitive positioning, peer benchmarks, and the evolving crypto landscape to sharpen strategic recommendations.

Design and implement experiments to validate hypotheses, measure impact, and drive measurable changes across Institutional products.

Own problems end-to-end, from initial framing through analysis, recommendation, and implementation, not just the slide deck.

Strengthen team capabilities by improving existing processes, frameworks, and operational tooling.

Required Skills and Experience:

5+ years of experience in management consulting, investment banking, corporate strategy, or product strategy, with demonstrated ownership of end-to-end strategic workstreams.

Proven ability to build quantitative models and business cases that have directly influenced executive or leadership decisions.

Familiarity with institutional finance, capital markets, or crypto/digital assets markets.

Track record of delivering clear, concise written and verbal recommendations to senior stakeholders in ambiguous, fast-moving environments.

Exposure to SQL and BI tools (e.g., Hex, Superset, Looker) or crypto analytics tools (e.g., Dune Analytics, Etherscan) is a plus but not required.

Utilizes generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in workflow efficiency, cost, and quality.

Position ID: P77079

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Pay Transparency 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):$148,835—$175,100 USD

Application Limit: Candidates may submit a maximum of 3 applications within a 6-month period.

Equal Opportunity Employer: Coinbase is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or genetic information. Applicants with criminal histories will be considered consistent with applicable federal, state, and local laws.

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AI Disclosure: Coinbase is piloting an AI tool based on machine learning technologies to conduct initial screening interviews to qualified applicants. The tool simulates realistic interview scenarios and engages in dynamic conversation.  Coinbase is also piloting an AI interview intelligence platform to transcribe and summarize interview notes, allowing our interviewers to fully focus on you as the candidate. Coinbase will not use AI to make decisions impacting employment.

Source: Coinbase careers

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