Senior Technical Program Manager, Consumer

Coinbase, Inc.; United States; Hybrid; USD 194,000 - 228,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Bonus eligibility

Medical, dental, vision

401(k)

Job summary

Coinbase is seeking a Senior Technical Program Manager to lead high-priority, multi-quarter programs across product areas and engineering teams, turning strategy into actionable plans and shipping features reliably and on time.

You'll own cross-functional coordination, define program KPIs, and work with Engineering, Design, Data, and business partners to drive outcomes in a fast-growing fintech environment. The role is remote-first with quarterly in-person surges.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in a Technical Program Manager, Engineering leadership, or similar role driving large technical programs.
• Proven track record delivering cross-functional initiatives through ambiguity and tight timelines.
• Technical fluency with distributed systems to engage with Staff+ engineers.
• Experience defining program KPIs and using dashboards to guide prioritization.
• Familiarity with trading, brokerage, payments, or fintech, crypto, web3, or DeFi ecosystems.
• Experience using generative AI responsibly to improve workflow efficiency and quality.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end delivery of complex, cross-functional programs from definition to launch and post-launch follow-up.
• Drive program cadence: kickoffs, reviews, dashboards, and risk tracking across teams.
• Identify risks and dependencies; drive mitigations and escalate when needed.
• Partner with Engineering to evaluate architectural trade-offs for reliability and scalability.
• Translate business goals into executable program plans and define KPIs to guide decisions.

Skills

Technical Program Manager

Distributed systems

Cross-functional leadership

KPIs / dashboards

Fintech / crypto familiarity

AI in workflow

Tools

Data dashboards

Project management tools

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.

The Consumer & Business organization owns Coinbase's flagship retail experiences across trading, investing, and related financial products. As a Senior Technical Program Manager on this team, you'll lead high-priority, multi-quarter programs that span multiple product areas and engineering teams, turning strategy into clear plans and shipping high-quality features reliably and on time. Recent launches led by TPMs on this team include Equities, Prediction Markets, Derivatives, and Credit Card.

What you'll do:

• Own end-to-end delivery of complex, cross-functional programs from problem definition through launch and post-launch follow-up, ensuring scope, milestones, dependencies, and success metrics are defined and tracked.
• Drive the operating cadence for your programs (kickoffs, status reviews, dashboards, risk tracking) to keep teams aligned and accountable across Product, Engineering, Design, Data, and business partners.
• Identify risks and cross-team dependencies proactively, drive mitigations, and escalated crisply when leadership decisions are needed.
• Partner with Engineering leads to evaluate technical trade-offs around reliability, scalability, and long-term maintainability, ensuring architecture decisions support program goals.
• Translate product and business goals into executable program plans and define program-level KPIs that guide prioritization and decision-making.

Required Skills and Experience:

• 7+ years of experience as a Technical Program Manager, Engineering leader, or similar role driving large technical programs in a high-growth consumer technology company.
• Proven track record leading cross-functional initiatives through significant ambiguity, tight timelines, and regulatory constraints, with demonstrated ability to drive programs independently from early framing through launch.
• Technical fluency in modern distributed systems sufficient to engage with Staff+ engineers on architecture, design trade-offs, and sequencing decisions.
• Experience defining program-level KPIs and using dashboards and data to guide prioritization, with a track record of influencing outcomes without direct authority across Product, Engineering, and business teams.
• Familiarity with trading, brokerage, payments, or other high-throughput fintech products, or with crypto, web3, or DeFi ecosystems.
• 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): $193,970 — $228,200 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.