Senior Manager, Technology Risk

Senior Manager For Technology Risk

Ready to be pushed beyond what you think you're capable of? At Coinbase, our mission is to increase economic freedom in the world. It's a massive, ambitious opportunity that demands the best of us, every day, as we build the emerging onchain platform and with it, the future global financial system. To achieve our mission, we're seeking a very specific candidate. We want someone who is passionate about our mission and who believes in the power of crypto and blockchain technology to update the financial system. We want someone who is eager to leave their mark on the world, who relishes the pressure and privilege of working with high caliber colleagues, and who actively seeks feedback to keep leveling up. We want someone who will run towards, not away from, solving the company's hardest problems. Our work culture is intense and isn't for everyone. But if you want to build the future alongside others who excel in their disciplines and expect the same from you, there's no better place to be. While many roles at Coinbase are remote-first, we are not remote-only. In-person participation is required throughout the year. Team and company-wide offsites are held multiple times annually to foster collaboration, connection, and alignment. Attendance is expected and fully supported. Coinbase is looking for a Senior Manager for our expanding Technology Risk function. You will serve as a member of the Coinbase Technology Risk & Controls team and support the implementation and maturity of our technology and security risk management program. Your risk team will define, quantify, manage, and communicate risks, and use outcomes to inform business decisions. Your role will be two-fold : (1) serve as the subject matter expert in risk management operations to build high utility, low friction processes and tooling for fast-moving technical teams located across global time zones and (2) serve as a technology subject matter expert, rolling up your sleeves to partner with and / or challenge highly technical teams in risk quantification and mitigation.

What You'll Be Doing :

• Enable risk informed business outcomes : Enable teams and leadership to make risk-based decisions by clearly communicating quantitative and qualitative tradeoffs.
• Serve as a true technical partner and sounding board : Partner with engineering to thoughtfully and effectively challenge engineering assumptions with regards to assessed risk quantification, risk mitigation plans, and key risk indicators.
• Build, grow, and coach a team of technology and security risk analysts : Create an environment that helps junior team members build their technical skills. Foster a culture of agility and innovation, and provide ongoing performance feedback.
• Manage risks throughout the risk lifecycle : Intake, triage, analyze, and calculate (inherent / residual) risk in collaboration with subject matter experts and risk owners. Facilitate agreement and documentation of risk treatment decisions; pressure testing treatment decisions and validating execution of mitigation plans across stakeholders as required. Participate in continuous monitoring or risk treatment.
• Maintain source of truth risk register : Quality control of data, tooling support, and implementing automation / process improvements to establish a baseline and iteratively improve risk management data and tooling.
• Iterating on program elements : Analysis of multiple variables to inform improvements to threat models / risk scoring methodologies.
• Reporting on risk posture : Support synchronous and asynchronous reporting on findings, metrics, and recommend mitigations to business leadership. This includes ad hoc and scheduled meetings with leadership and business risk owners.
• Communications and training : Support develop, execution, and maintenance of communication and training plans to roll out the technology risk program across the organization. Maintain team runbooks, team intra-web pages, and risk register metrics dashboards.
• Enterprise risk alignment : Work in lockstep with Enterprise Risk Management to escalate risks through the enterprise risk register and report relevant metrics to senior leadership as determined necessary.
• Global Engagement : Collaborate with stakeholders to help scale the program's risk framework across Coinbase entities, products, and geographies / markets. Regularly collaborate with GRC teams, Legal and Compliance for risks, assessments, and reporting to meet regulatory requirements.
• Support audit and regulatory inspections : Support data compilation to respond to US and international audit / regulator inquiries.
• Maintain an industry pulse : Maintain awareness of international regulation, emerging threats, forecasts, policies, and benchmarks

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Pay Transparency Notice :

Depending on your work location, the target annual salary for this position can range as detailed below. Full time offers from Coinbase also include bonus eligibility + equity eligibility + benefits (including medical, dental, vision and 401(k)). Pay Range : $230,265$270,900 USD

Commitment to Equal Opportunity :

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