Prime Sales Trader

About the role

As a Prime Sales Trader at Coinbase, you will play a crucial role in driving trading volume by understanding institutional clients' liquidity needs and providing tailored execution services. This position requires you to maintain strong relationships with clients through high-quality service and market insights.

You will collaborate with various internal teams to identify and onboard new clients while also offering structured feedback to product managers for new developments. This role demands a proactive approach to market sentiment, trading activity, and client positioning to inform strategic decisions.

The base salary for this role ranges from $157,590 to $185,400, depending on location.

Who this role suits

• Candidates should have a robust background in sales or trading, particularly in digital assets or related financial sectors.
• Strong relationship-building skills are essential for maintaining trust with institutional clients.
• A proactive and analytical mindset is necessary to understand market dynamics and client needs.
• Availability to work weekends is required, as the role includes Saturday and Sunday as working days.

From the employer

• Drive increased trading volume by understanding clients' liquidity needs, proactively identifying how high-touch and low-touch execution services can meet those needs, and providing real-time support for execution and market color.
• Build and maintain trusted counterparty relationships through quality execution, daily market updates on liquidity and flow thematics, and consistent, high-quality service delivery.
• Partner with Sales, Financing, and Account Management teams to identify, onboard, and monetize new client relationships, proactively surfacing business opportunities across Coinbase's institutional product suite.
• Provide structured feedback from clients and the broader marketplace to institutional Product Managers, guiding new product development across spot trading and financing.
• Maintain a real-time pulse on market sentiment, trading activity, and client positioning, keeping relevant internal teams informed to support strategic decision-making.

• 3+ years of sales and/or trading experience in digital assets, FX, equities, credit, or derivatives at a top-tier institution, with direct experience in daily execution and settlement functions.
• Strong options trading capability, including pricing, hedging, and risk-managing vanilla and/or exotic structures, with fluency in Greeks, volatility dynamics, and options market microstructure.
• Proven ability to build and maintain counterparty relationships with institutional clients, translating market insight into trusted, high-value interactions.
• Experience producing institutional-grade market commentary or client communications covering macro, crypto, or digital asset themes.
• Weekend availability required - this role operates on a schedule that includes Saturday and Sunday as working days.
• Utilizes generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in workflow efficiency, cost, and quality.

• 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): $157,590—$185,400 USD.
• Application Limit: Candidates may submit a maximum of 4 applications per 30-day 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.
• Accommodations: If you are an individual with a disability who needs a reasonable accommodation, email us your request and contact info at [email protected].