Coinbase

Associate General Counsel, Privacy and Data Protection

Coinbase

full-time

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Origin:  • 🇺🇸 United States

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Salary

💰 $267,070 - $314,200 per year

Job Level

JuniorMid-Level

About the role

  • Developing, implementing, and scaling Coinbase’s privacy program in partnership with Privacy Operations.
  • Deliver privacy legal advice and guidance to Coinbase’s product teams.
  • Track the rapidly changing landscape of global data protection laws, regulations, and standards, and translate them into clear requirements and actionable guidance for business and product stakeholders.
  • Participate in large, cross-functional projects involving data governance, data protection, and data request tools and settings for our privacy-conscious customer base.
  • Partner with Security and Trust & Risk to respond to privacy incidents, regulatory inquiries, law enforcement demands, and other information requests.
  • Oversee the drafting of and regular updates to privacy-related notices, disclosures, transparency reports, policies, and procedures.
  • Collaborate with Privacy Operations to build cross-functional relationships and spearhead data protection training and awareness programs to foster a privacy-centric environment throughout Coinbase.
  • Collaborate with product teams to implement privacy-forward, secure, and customer-centric product design.

Requirements

  • 8+ years as a practicing attorney, with 5+ years of substantive privacy experience, including in-house experience at technology or financial services companies.
  • JD or international equivalent (license to practice law in the United States preferred).
  • Expertise in U.S. and international privacy and data protection laws, regulations, standards, and practices, such as CCPA/CPRA, Canada PIPEDA, and Brazil LGPD.
  • Strong people and project management skills, including the ability to coordinate complex, company-wide plans requiring deep cross-functional collaboration.
  • The ability to build trust and align incentives with product stakeholders by distilling complex legal issues into clear and concise guidance, and using creative problem-solving to find practical solutions to challenges.
  • Comfort engaging directly with government agencies and regulators on thorny issues.
  • A passion for data protection law and technology policy advocacy.