Analyst, Privacy

Jackalope Digital LLC; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 135,000 - 159,000; Full time

Job summary

Coinbase's Privacy team is hiring a Privacy Analyst to own the Privacy Incident Management function, reporting to the Head of Privacy. You will partner across Privacy, Security, Product, Engineering, and Communications to triage incidents involving personal data, drive privacy analysis, and coordinate remediation in a fast-moving environment.

This role thrives in ambiguity, leads cross-functional coordination during time-sensitive events, and builds durable process improvements to raise response

Qualifications

• 3+ years in privacy/security/incident response with cross-functional coordination.
• Strong incident management and written analyses for exec summaries.
• Experience leading cloud-native investigations; hands-on SQL, Python, and data tools (Postgres, MongoDB, Airflow, Looker, Snowflake).
• Experience building automation to reduce manual tasks and speed incident response.
• Knowledge of GDPR, CCPA, PIPEDA, ePrivacy, DPIAs/PIAs, ROPA, and data subject rights.
• Responsible use of generative AI with human oversight.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end Privacy Incident Management, incl. workflows, escalation, docs, responder enablement, automation opportunities.
• Lead privacy incident response as DRI/Incident Commander with cross-functional coordination.
• Maintain on-call readiness for triage, severity classification, and escalations.
• Drive retrospectives, track remediation items and control gaps; deliver incident metrics.
• Build cross-functional, cross-geography stakeholder relationships.
• Support broader privacy initiatives, tooling and automation.

Skills

Incident management

Privacy analysis

SQL

Python

Data analysis

Automation

Privacy regs

Executive comms

Cloud investigations

Tools

PostgreSQL

MongoDB

Airflow

Looker

Snowflake

Job description

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.

Coinbase's Privacy team is hiring a Privacy Analyst to own the Privacy Incident Management function, reporting to the Head of Privacy. You'll partner across Privacy, Privacy Legal, Security, Product, Engineering, and Communications to triage incidents involving personal data, drive privacy analysis, coordinate remediation, and continuously improve how Coinbase responds to privacy incidents. This role is built for someone who thrives in ambiguity, drives cross‑functional coordination during time‑sensitive events, and builds durable process improvements in a fast‑moving environment.

What you'll do:

• Own the end-to-end Privacy Incident Management program, including notification workflows, escalation paths, process documentation, responder enablement, and automation opportunities.
• Lead privacy incident response as the DRI and Incident Commander, coordinating across Privacy, Privacy Legal, CSIRT, Product, Engineering, and Communications to drive analysis, remediation, and follow-through.
• Maintain on‑call readiness to support privacy incident triage, severity classification, and urgent escalations, ensuring incidents are correctly assessed and routed.
• Drive privacy incident retrospectives, track resulting remediation items and control gaps, and deliver incident metrics and reporting covering trends, remediation status, and process health.
• Build and maintain strong cross‑functional and cross‑geography stakeholder relationships to improve readiness, response quality, and business accountability.
• Support broader Privacy initiatives during lower‑volume periods, including cross‑functional efforts, tooling development, and automation projects.

Required Skills and Experience:

• 3+ years of experience in privacy, security, incident response, technology risk, or a related operational risk function, including direct experience leading or supporting incident, issue, or risk workflows requiring structured analysis, documentation, and cross‑functional coordination.
• Strong incident management skills with experience communicating privacy risk and incident findings to both technical and non‑technical audiences, including producing written incident analyses, retrospective documentation, and executive‑level summaries.
• Proven track record of leading technical investigations within cloud‑native architectures, with hands‑on proficiency in SQL, Python, and data analysis tools (e.g., Postgres, MongoDB, Airflow, Looker, Snowflake).
• Demonstrated experience building automation to reduce manual operational tasks and improve incident response efficiency.
• Working knowledge of privacy regulations and frameworks (e.g., GDPR, CCPA, PIPEDA, ePrivacy, DPIAs/PIAs, ROPA, data subject rights) data subject rights, privacy controls, and privacy issue management.
• Utilizes and builds generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver business‑ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in workflow efficiency, cost, and quality.

Pay Transparency Notice: Base salary varies by location (see range below). Total compensation may also include equity and bonus eligibility, and benefits (medical, dental, vision, 401(k)).

Annual base salary range (excluding equity and bonus):
$135,320 — $159,200 USD

Position ID: P78172

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