Analyst, Privacy

Coinbase; United States; Hybrid; USD 135,000 - 159,000; Full time

Job summary

Coinbase is seeking a Privacy Analyst to own the Privacy Incident Management function, reporting to the Head of Privacy. You will partner across Privacy, Privacy Legal, Security, Product, Engineering, and Communications to triage incidents involving personal data and drive continuous improvement in incident response at Coinbase.

In this role you will lead end-to-end incident management as the DRI, coordinate across teams, and maintain on-call readiness for urgent triage and escalation.

Qualifications

• 3+ years in privacy, security, incident response, or risk workflows with cross-functional coordination.
• Strong ability to communicate privacy risk and incident findings to diverse audiences, with written analyses and executive summaries.
• Experience leading technical investigations in cloud-native architectures.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end Privacy Incident Management program including workflows and responder enablement.
• Lead privacy incident response as DRI and Incident Commander across multiple teams.
• Maintain on-call readiness for triage, severity classification, and escalation.
• Drive retrospectives, track remediation items, and report on trends and health.
• Build cross-functional relationships to improve readiness and accountability.
• Support broader Privacy initiatives and automation projects.

Skills

Incident management

Cross-functional coordination

Technical investigations

Communication (technical & non-tech)

Automation

Generative AI literacy

Tools

SQL

Python

PostgreSQL

MongoDB

Airflow

Looker

Snowflake

Job description

Ready to do the most impactful work of your career? AtCoinbase, 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.

Position ID: P78172

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 USD - $159,200 USD

• Application Limit: Candidates may submit a maximum of 3 applications within a 6-month period.
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