Security Compliance Manager

Coinbase; Garden City (ID); Hybrid; USD 193,000 - 229,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading crypto company is seeking an individual experienced in controls management and compliance to lead assessments and establish technology control requirements. The ideal candidate will have at least 7 years of experience and strong technical acumen. The role requires close collaboration with stakeholder teams and a commitment to addressing systemic program challenges. This position allows for remote work with in-person participation required at times.

Qualifications

• Experience in a 1- or 2-Layer of Defense controls management function.
• Familiarity with ISO 27001/5, NIST CSF, COBIT, ITIL.
• Willingness to embrace a steep learning curve.

Responsibilities

• Lead technical deep dive control assessments.
• Develop technology control requirements for new products.
• Provide ongoing reporting to stakeholders and leadership.

Skills

Control domain knowledge and best practices

Strong technical acumen

Clear/concise communicator and writer

Excellent organization and project management skills

Education

7+ years of experience in controls management or Governance, Risk, and Compliance organization

Job description

Overview

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. We’re seeking a very specific candidate who is passionate about our mission, believes in the power of crypto and blockchain technology to update the financial system, and is eager to leave their mark on the world. You should relish the pressure and privilege of working with high caliber colleagues and actively seek feedback to keep leveling up. You will run toward, not away from, solving the company’s hardest problems.

Our work culture is intense and isn’t for everyone. If you want to build the future alongside others who excel in their disciplines and expect the same from you, Coinbase is the right place. 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 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 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. We are looking for someone to help build and run second line of defense technology compliance initiatives and drive risk reduction through controls by design and ongoing monitoring.

What you’ll be doing (job duties):

Responsibilities

• 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 escalation 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

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience working in a 1- or 2-Layer of Defense 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
• Navigating ambiguity and complexity: Ability to manage a queue against strategic priorities and handle multiple assessments at a time
• 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
• Regulatory familiarity: Working knowledge of major regulatory/legal frameworks driving requirements across technology organizations
• Drive for continuous learning: Willingness to learn and apply processes unique to Coinbase, embrace a steep learning curve
• 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 have

• FinTech, TradFi, consulting, business operations technical program management or other customer-facing disciplines
• Strong knowledge of risk/control issues in relation to evolving technology (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
• Demonstrated beginner/intermediate knowledge of crypto/blockchain/web3

Position ID: P69482

LI-Remote

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 target bonus + target equity + benefits (including medical, dental, vision and 401(k)).

Pay Range: $193,970—$228,200 USD

Please be advised that each candidate may submit a maximum of four applications within any 30-day period. We encourage you to carefully evaluate how your skills and interests align with Coinbase\'s roles before applying.

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