Senior TPM - Fintech, Cross-Functional Leader

Coinbase, Inc.; Trenton (NJ); Hybrid; USD 194,000 - 228,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

401(k)

Job summary

Coinbase is seeking a Senior Technical Program Manager to lead high-priority, multi-quarter initiatives across product areas and engineering teams. You will turn strategy into actionable plans and ship high-quality features on time in a remote-first environment with quarterly in-person surges.

You will collaborate with Product, Engineering, Design, Data, and business partners to define scope, milestones, and KPIs, while balancing reliability, scalability, and regulatory considerations in the

Qualifications

• 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 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.

Responsibilities

• 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 escalation 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.

Skills

Program management

Cross-functional leadership

Distributed systems

KPIs & dashboards

Fintech familiarity

AI integration

Job description

Coinbase is seeking a Senior Technical Program Manager to lead high-priority, multi-quarter initiatives across product areas and engineering teams. You will turn strategy into actionable plans and ship high-quality features on time in a remote-first environment with quarterly in-person surges.

You will collaborate with Product, Engineering, Design, Data, and business partners to define scope, milestones, and KPIs, while balancing reliability, scalability, and regulatory considerations in the