Senior Counsel

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+ 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 significant equity in CoinTracker and benefits like medical, dental, vision, 401(k), life insurance, and PTO.