Real Estate & Builds Intern

Coinbase is on a mission to increase economic freedom, and we are uncompromising in achieving it. The bar is high, the environment is intense, and we like it that way. This is 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 remote-first, but not remote-only. Expect to get together quarterly for intense in-person working sessions called "surges."

This is a 12-week internship during summer 2027.

As a Real Estate & Builds Intern on the Employee & Workplace Experience team, you'll spend 12 weeks contributing to a project focused on standardizing and future-proofing our real estate strategy and workplace experience. You'll work closely with Design, Builds, and Workplace Experience teams, partnering with cross-functional stakeholders to improve processes and drive consistency across our portfolio. This role offers hands-on exposure to how projects move from inception to completion, giving you a front-row seat to the collaboration, decision-making, and execution that shape our workplace.

What you'll do:

• Contribute to a standardization initiative that establishes scalable frameworks for how we plan, design, and deliver workplace experiences across our portfolio.
• Partner with Design, Builds, and Workplace Experience teams to identify opportunities to streamline processes and create consistency in project execution.
• Support cross-functional project cycles from inception to completion, participating in planning, stakeholder alignment, milestone tracking, and post-project evaluation.
• Research and synthesize industry trends, benchmarks, and internal data to inform recommendations that future-proof our real estate strategy.
• Help develop tools, playbooks, templates, or guidelines that enable teams to execute standards more efficiently and with greater consistency.

Required Skills and Experience:

• Currently pursuing a degree or certificate in real estate, business, urban planning, facilities management, project management, or a related discipline.
• Exposure to project management fundamentals, including planning, timeline tracking, and milestone reporting, with experience collaborating across multiple teams or stakeholders on shared deliverables.
• Demonstrated ability to synthesize data, benchmarks, and qualitative input into clear, structured recommendations for cross-functional audiences.
• Experience creating documentation such as playbooks, process maps, or presentations through coursework, projects, or prior internships.
• Interest in workplace strategy, employee experience, or real estate operations, demonstrated through coursework, projects, volunteer work, or self-directed learning.
• Utilizes generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in workflow efficiency, cost, and quality.