Investigator – Coinbase

124% 1-Year Employee Growth Rate | 233% 2-Year Employee Growth Rate | LinkedIn | $547.3M Venture Funding

What Is Employee Growth Rate & Why Is It Important?

Coinbase has built the world’s leading compliant cryptocurrency platform serving over 70 million accounts in more than 100 countries. With multiple successful products, and our vocal advocacy for blockchain technology, we have played a major part in mainstream awareness and adoption of cryptocurrency. We are proud to offer an entire suite of products that are helping build the crypto economy, and increase economic freedom around the world.

 

There are a few things we look for across all hires we make at Coinbase, regardless of role or team. First, we assess whether a candidate demonstrates our values: Clear Communication, Positive Energy, Efficient Execution, and Continuous Learning. Second, we look for signals that a candidate will thrive in a culture like ours, where we default to trust, embrace feedback, disrupt ourselves, and expect sustained high performance because we play as a championship team. Finally, we seek people with the desire and capacity to build and share expertise in the frontier technologies of crypto and blockchain, in whatever way is most relevant to their role.

 

Read more about our values and culture here.

 

Global Intelligence

This is a remote role and the Investigator will be reporting to the head of International Investigations. The Investigator will work with law enforcement and other agencies to investigate instances of suspected criminal activity. The Investigator will also respond to legal orders compelling Coinbase to provide evidence.

 

What you’ll be doing:

 

May perform some or all of the following activities to support ongoing investigations (Reactive) and to identify opportunities for information gathering and case progression (Proactive):

 

• Investigate suspicious activity and when appropriate refer cases to law enforcement.
• Review information forwarded to Global Intelligence from Information Security, Compliance and Fraud/Risk teams for potential case development.
• When necessary serve in an advisory role to management in relation  to suspected criminal activity or to develop information with informational/intelligence value.
• Review, log, and respond to legal requests for information from Law Enforcement.
• Provide briefings to senior leadership on investigative work and team performance metrics.
• Review and process law enforcement seizures.
• Collaborate on cross function initiatives to implement control measures related to financial crime

 

What we look for in you:

• B.A./B.S. degree or equivalent work experience.
• 1+ years prior experience investigating cybercrime/financial crimes, particularly for other financial or tech companies.
• A working knowledge of global law enforcement agencies (especially within the US, Germany , EU and UK)
• Working knowledge of cybercrime and other crime types that may be detected within a financial service
• Experience responding to law enforcement requests for information.
• Ability to deal with and successfully operate within a changing regulatory environment.
• Must have the ability to operate independently when required and be highly self motivated.
• Proven effective time management and organizational skills.
• Intermediate to advanced experience working with word processing and spreadsheet software.
• Effective interpersonal skills.
• Ability to work effectively in a team environment as well as accomplish work assignments under minimal supervision and sometimes tight deadlines.
• Excellent writing, analytical and communication skills.

Nice to haves:

• Well versed in Cryptocurrency analytics and research.
• Diverse experience investigating cybercrime.
• Deep connections in banking or law enforcement.
• Familiarity with data analysis tools such as Looker, Snowflake, and SQL

Tagged as: >100% 2 Yr Employee Growth, 501+ Employees, Hide US-Only Jobs, Venture Funded