Security Compliance Manager

Coinbase stores more digital currency than any company in the world, making us a top tier target on the internet. Security is core to our mission and has been a key competitive differentiator for us as we scale worldwide. Essential to scaling is building and running a security compliance program that reflects how we protect the data and assets in our care, to open the doors with customers, regulators, auditors, and other external stakeholders. If you love working with fast moving companies to expand our compliance advisory program and create positive change across the business, we’d like to speak with you about joining our team. Coinbase is looking for a Security Compliance Manager to drive second line of defense technology compliance initiatives and drive risk reduction through ‘controls by design’ and ongoing monitoring.

What you’ll be doing (ie. job duties):

• Control Assessment: Lead technical deep dive control assessments into Consumer products and supporting systems to assess risk and control design, identify areas of weakness and control failures, and recommend risk reduction initiatives 
• Compliance Advisory: Develop technology control requirements for new products, update relevant controls, and provide subject matter expertise over requirements to product organization and other stakeholders 
• Stakeholder Collaboration: Build close relationships with stakeholder teams including Security, Platform Engineering, Consumer, and Product to advise on technology and security requirements and ensure excellence in control ownership
• Incident Evaluation: Lead incident impact analysis procedures for Consumer products and services 
• Automation Development: Collaborate with Consumer and Platform teams to develop automated solutions using low-code/no-code platforms to streamline control testing, monitoring, and reporting processes.
• Metrics and Reporting: Provide ongoing reporting to stakeholders and leadership on above responsibilities and communicate progress and escalations management 
• Process Improvement: Identify opportunities to address systemic program challenges, recommend solutions and drive issue resolution 
• Documentation and Training: Develop and maintain comprehensive control and testing requirement documentation and deliver training to owners over control implementation, maintenance and remediation plans 
• Risk Mitigation: Develop creative solutions to prove risk mitigation and solve for complex regulatory problems faced by the crypto industry
• Maintain an industry pulse: Maintain awareness of international regulation, emerging threats, forecasts, policies, and benchmarks

What we look for in you (ie. job requirements):

• 7+ years of experience working in a 1 or 2 LoD controls management function and/or Governance, Risk, and Compliance organization 
• Control domain knowledge and best practices: Familiarity with standards and frameworks e.g. ISO 27001/5, NIST CSF, COBIT, ITIL, DORA
• Strong technical acumen: Ability to dig into our technology and security stack including reviewing system configurations, roles, and permissions to assess the design and effectiveness of controls. Whether from Security Engineering or 1LoD/GRC experience you can go beyond checking if controls exist by challenging decisions and identifying systemic inefficiencies.
• Navigating ambiguity and complexity: Ability to manage a queue against strategic priorities and shows expertise in being able to handle multiple assessments at a time. You are comfortable operating on an unpaved road and dealing with ambiguity
• Clear/concise communicator and writer: Experience drafting/operationalizing project plans across stakeholders, holding teams accountable, and documenting deliverables to varying levels of junior and senior stakeholder audiences. Ability to translate controls/risk standards out of compliance speak and into functional requirements and across varying levels of technical stakeholders
• Regulatory familiarity: Working knowledge of major regulatory/legal frameworks (US/international) driving requirements across technology organizations
• Drive for continuous learning: You are willing to learn and apply processes unique to the challenges at Coinbase. You have a willingness to embrace a steep learning curve and stretch opportunities to learn new skills
• Excellent organization and project management skills: Able to perform effectively in a fast-moving and demanding environment  
• Clear cross-functional communication: Ability to communicate with technical and non-technical stakeholders to align on shared outcomes

Nice to haves:

• FinTech, TradFi, consulting, business operations technical program management or other customer-facing disciplines
• Strong knowledge of risk/control issues in relation to evolving technology (e.g., crypto, cloud, data lakes, machine learning)
• Certification is a plus, but not a requirement: Information security risk management qualifications like CISA, CISSP, CISM
• Coding knowledge a plus, but not a requirement (e.g. learn to build data joins, integrations with GRC and data visualization tools)
• Demonstrated beginner/intermediate knowledge of crypto/blockchain/web3 

Position ID: P69482

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