Analyst, Privacy

Unchain Data; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 135,000 - 159,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

Dental benefits

Vision benefits

401(k)

Job summary

Coinbase is seeking a Privacy Analyst to own the Privacy Incident Management function and coordinate across Privacy, Security, Product, Engineering, and Communications. You will triage incidents involving personal data, drive privacy analysis, and implement durable process improvements in a fast-moving environment.

This role requires 3+ years in privacy/security incident workflows, strong analytic skills in SQL/Python, and a track record of automating routine tasks.

Qualifications

• 3+ years in privacy, security, incident response, or risk operations with cross-functional coordination.
• Proven incident management and ability to communicate risk clearly.
• Experience leading investigations in cloud-native environments with SQL and Python.
• Experience building automation to reduce manual tasks in incident response.
• Familiarity with GDPR, CCPA, and other privacy frameworks.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end Privacy Incident Management program, including workflows and automation.
• Lead privacy incident response as DRI and Incident Commander across teams.
• Maintain on-call readiness for triage, severity classification, and escalations.
• Drive retrospectives, track remediation items, and report trends.
• Build cross-functional and cross-geography stakeholder relationships.
• Support broader privacy initiatives during low-volume periods.

Skills

Privacy incident management

Incident response

Cross-functional coordination

SQL

Python

Data analysis

Cloud-native architectures

Tools

Postgres

MongoDB

Airflow

Looker

Snowflake

Job description

About Us

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."

The Role

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.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Requirements

• 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), 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.

Compensation

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

Total compensation may also include equity and bonus eligibility, and benefits (medical, dental, vision, 401(k)). Base salary varies by location.