Prime Financing Trading Analyst

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As a Prime Financing Trading Analyst on the Institutional Prime Finance team, you'll help manage and grow Coinbase's institutional financing book across lending, margin, and shorting products. This team is building a full-service prime brokerage platform that enables institutions to deploy trading strategies and achieve capital efficiency at scale. You'll trade day-to-day across the financing desk, optimize net interest margin, and work directly with hedge funds, ETF issuers, market makers, and corporates to deliver bespoke financing solutions.

01What you'll do

• Trade the financing book daily, managing long and short side liquidity across Prime Financing and CB Institutional products.
• Optimize net interest margin on principal borrow/lend activity through active position management and pricing adjustments.
• Support asset and client pricing for financing implementation across lending, margin, and shorting products.
• Engage directly with institutional clients, including hedge funds, ETF issuers, market makers, UHNW individuals, and corporates, to structure financing solutions.
• Build and refine custom client solutions that improve onboarding, internal processes, and overall client experience.

02Required Skills and Experience

• 2+ years of experience in equity or fixed income financing, prime brokerage, or derivatives at a bank, broker-dealer, or crypto exchange.
• Proficiency in Python, SQL, or similar programming languages applied to trading analytics, pricing models, or data analysis.
• Demonstrated knowledge of fiat and crypto funding market fundamentals, including repo, securities lending, and margin financing mechanics.
• Proven ability to communicate clearly with institutional clients and internal stakeholders while managing competing priorities with urgency.
• Utilizes generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in workflow efficiency, cost, and quality.

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):

$126,990-$149,400 USD

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