Prime Sales Trader
The posting
Ready to do the most impactful work of your career? At Coinbase , we are uncompromising on our mission to increase economic freedom. The bar is high, the environment is intense, and we like it that way. This isn't a place for complacency, it’s a place to be pushed past your perceived limits. If you're ready to build the future of finance alongside people who refuse to settle for "good enough," you belong here. Coinbase is a remote-first, but not remote-only company. Expect to get together quarterly for intense in-person working sessions called “surges.” learn more about working at Coinbase .
As a Prime Sales Trader on the Institutional Prime Trading team, you'll help grow one of Coinbase's most strategically important businesses by delivering best-in-class execution and liquidity solutions to the world's most sophisticated institutional clients. Our clients include asset managers, hedge funds, VCs, family offices, pensions, and endowments across both crypto-native and traditional finance. You'll drive trading volume, deepen counterparty relationships, and shape how institutional clients experience Coinbase's execution services across spot and derivatives markets.
What you'll do
- 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.
Required Skills and Experience
- 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.
PID:P77366
Pay Transparency Notice: The target annual base salary for this position can range as detailed below. Total compensation may****also include equity and bonus eligibility and benefits (including medical, dental, and vision).
Annual base salary range (excluding equity and bonus)
£127,205 - £133,900 GBP
- Application Limit: Candidates may submit a maximum of 3 applications within a 6-month 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.
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- Accommodations: If you are an individual with a disability who needs a reasonable accommodation, email us your request and contact info at accommodations[at]coinbase.com. Need screen reading technology? Click here to download a free compatible screen reader and view the tutorial .
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Where you can sell from
Fully remote, for people based in United Kingdom.
Taken from Coinbase's own posting, last seen live on 30 Oct 2026.
The application
Your details, CV and LinkedIn, then 11 questions.
- 1.Are you at least 18 years of age?Yes or no
- 2.Have you previously been employed by Coinbase in any capacity?Yes or no
- 3.I understand that Coinbase may use AI tools to assist in the application and interview process.Pick one: Yes
- 4.Which of the following best describes how you use AI tools today?Pick one
- 5.Are you legally authorized to work in the country where this position is located?Yes or no
- 6.Will you require sponsorship for employment visa status now or in the future?Yes or no
- 7.Are you a current government official or were you a government official in the last five years (e.g., employee of a government agency or a government owned/controlled company, holder of public office or a civil service position)?Pick one: No, I am not a current or former Government Official · Yes, I am a current Government Official · Yes, I am a former Government Official
- 8.Are you a close relative of a government official (i.e., child/step-child, spouse/partner, parent/guardian, aunt/uncle, first cousin, in-law)?Yes or no
- 9.To your knowledge, do you or a close relative currently hold a role, have a significant financial interest in, or maintain a close personal relationship with a senior leader at a company connected to Coinbase that could create an actual orYes or no
- 10.Are you willing and able to work weekends?Yes or no
- 11.Do you have 3+ years professional trading experience?Yes or no
From Coinbase's apply page, checked 30 Oct 2026.
About Coinbase
A crypto exchange and trading app for consumers, plus prime brokerage, derivatives and stablecoin payment infrastructure for institutions and businesses.
Pay schedule: A base salary with bonus and equity on top, both of which its posted ranges exclude.
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