Senior Product Manager, Risk

Coinbase; Salt Lake City (UT); Hybrid; USD 207,000 - 244,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Bonus eligibility

Benefits: medical, dental, vision, 401

Job summary

Coinbase, Inc. is seeking a Senior Product Manager for Risk to own the product strategy and roadmap for fraud, account takeover, and scam risk across the platform.

You will partner with Engineering, Data Science, and Risk Analytics to ship products that protect millions of customers and assets while keeping user experience fast and frictionless. You will lead cross-functional teams to define vision, priorities, and success metrics, translating complex risk trade-offs into clear business impact

Qualifications

• 7+ years of product management experience, with at least 3 years focused on risk, fraud, trust and safety, or payments in a consumer fintech or e-commerce environment.
• Proven track record shipping risk/fraud products that reduced loss rates or improved detection.
• Deep fluency in data-driven decision-making with metrics, experiments, and ML model interpretation.
• Experience partnering with engineering and data science to build real-time risk systems.
• Ability to communicate risk trade-offs to senior leadership; translate concepts into business impact.

Responsibilities

• Own the product roadmap for one or more risk domains (e.g., ATO prevention, scam detection, payment fraud).
• Drive cross-functional execution with Engineering, Data Science, and Design from concept to launch.
• Partner with Risk Analytics and ML teams to translate signals into product requirements and control strategies.
• Lead experimentation and measurement of risk interventions, analyzing impact on fraud rates and customer friction.
• Shape long-term risk product strategy by analyzing industry trends and regulatory shifts.

Skills

Product management

Risk management

Data-driven decision making

Cross-functional collaboration

ML collaboration

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.

Senior Product Manager, Risk

As a Senior Product Manager on the Risk team within the Consumer & Business group, you'll own the product strategy and roadmap for how Coinbase detects, prevents, and responds to fraud, account takeover, and scam risk across our platform. This team builds the products and risk controls that protect millions of customers and billions in assets. You'll partner with Engineering, Data Science, and Risk Analytics to ship products that stay ahead of evolving threats while keeping the customer experience fast and frictionless.

What you'll do:

• Own the product roadmap for one or more risk domains (e.g., ATO prevention, scam detection, payment fraud), defining the vision, priorities, and success metrics that reduce customer losses and improve detection accuracy

• Drive cross-functional execution with Engineering, Data Science, and Design to ship risk products from concept through launch, making trade-offs between speed, coverage, and user experience

• Partner with Risk Analytics and ML teams to translate fraud signals, model outputs, and emerging threat patterns into product requirements and control strategies

• Lead experimentation and measurement of risk interventions, using data to quantify impact on fraud rates, false positive rates, and customer friction

• Shape the long-term risk product strategy by analyzing industry trends, regulatory shifts, and crypto-specific threat vectors to keep Coinbase ahead of adversaries

Required Skills and Experience:

• 7+ years of product management experience, with at least 3 years focused on risk, fraud, trust and safety, or payments in a consumer fintech or e-commerce environment

• Proven track record shipping risk or fraud products that measurably reduced loss rates, improved detection precision, or scaled risk controls across multiple product surfaces

• Deep fluency in data-driven decision-making, including defining metrics, running experiments, and interpreting ML model performance to inform product direction

• Experience partnering with engineering and data science teams to build and iterate on real-time risk systems, rules engines, or ML-powered detection pipelines

• Demonstrated ability to communicate complex risk trade-offs to senior leadership, translating technical fraud concepts into clear business impact narratives

• Utilizes 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):

$207,485—$244,100 USD

• *Equal Opportunity Employer: *Coinbase is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or genetic information. Applicants with criminal histories will be considered consistent with applicable federal, state, and local laws.

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