Legal Ops Associate, OC Management

The Legal Operations team at Coinbase drives operational excellence by leveraging technology, automation, and AI-first workflows to manage vendors, budgets, and e-billing at scale. As a Legal Ops Associate, OC Management, you’ll build and run the systems and processes that power Coinbase's outside counsel spend and management program.

Responsibilities

• Build and enhance automated, AI-first processes for legal e-billing and outside counsel management, driving operational excellence across the program.
• Drive implementation of OC spend strategy, including reviewing and benchmarking law firm billing rates and fee structures against industry standards and peer companies.
• Own the monthly accruals process and legal vendor onboarding workflows, ensuring accuracy and timeliness in close partnership with FP&A.
• Administer and maintain the legal e-billing system (Brightflag), serving as the team's resource for system optimization and stakeholder training.
• Analyze OC spend data to produce reports, scorecards, and actionable insights that inform program improvements and leadership decisions.
• Partner cross-functionally with FP&A, Sourcing, and EAA to enhance program effectiveness and align on budgets, forecasting, and vendor strategy.
• Own and manage onboarding of law firms.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree with 3+ years of outside counsel management experience at an in-house legal practice, preferably at a high-growth technology company.
• Demonstrated experience managing legal accruals, forecasting inputs, and month-end financial processes in partnership with FP&A.
• Hands-on experience with legal e-billing platforms (Brightflag or comparable) and proficiency in Excel/Google Sheets, including formulas, data manipulation, reconciliation, and building trackers and analyses.
• Proven ability to project manage operational initiatives from inception to execution, including process design, tool implementation, and vendor onboarding workflows.
• Experience with data tools (SQL, Snowflake, Looker, or similar) for building reports and dashboards that drive spend visibility and decision-making.
• Utilizes generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in workflow efficiency, cost, and quality.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision coverage
• 401(k) retirement plan
• Equity and bonus eligibility

Pay

Annual base salary range (excluding equity and bonus): $99,365 USD – $116,900 USD, varying by location.

Schedule

Remote-first with quarterly in-person working sessions called “surges.”