Coinbase

Senior Manager, Technology Risk

Coinbase

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: 🇺🇸 United States

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Salary

💰 $230,265 - $270,900 per year

Job Level

Senior

About the role

  • Enable risk informed business outcomes: Enable teams and leadership to make risk-based decisions by clearly communicating quantitative and qualitative tradeoffs.
  • Serve as a true technical partner and sounding board: Partner with engineering to thoughtfully and effectively challenge engineering assumptions with regards to assessed risk quantification, risk mitigation plans, and key risk indicators.
  • Build, grow, and coach a team of technology and security risk analysts: Create an environment that helps junior team members build their technical skills. Foster a culture of agility and innovation, and provide ongoing performance feedback.
  • Manage risks throughout the risk lifecycle: Intake, triage, analyze, and calculate (inherent/residual) risk in collaboration with subject matter experts and risk owners. Facilitate agreement and documentation of risk treatment decisions; pressure testing treatment decisions and validating execution of mitigation plans across stakeholders as required. Participate in continuous monitoring or risk treatment.
  • Maintain source of truth risk register: Quality control of data, tooling support, and implementing automation/process improvements to establish a baseline and iteratively improve risk management data and tooling.
  • Iterating on program elements: Analysis of multiple variables to inform improvements to threat models/risk scoring methodologies.
  • Reporting on risk posture: Support synchronous and asynchronous reporting on findings, metrics, and recommend mitigations to business leadership. This includes ad hoc and scheduled meetings with leadership and business risk owners.
  • Communications and training: Support develop, execution, and maintenance of communication and training plans to roll out the technology risk program across the organization. Maintain team runbooks, team intra-web pages, and risk register metrics dashboards.
  • Enterprise risk alignment: Work in lockstep with Enterprise Risk Management to escalate risks through the enterprise risk register and report relevant metrics to senior leadership as determined necessary.
  • Global Engagement: Collaborate with stakeholders to help scale the program’s risk framework across Coinbase entities, products, and geographies/markets. Regularly collaborate with GRC teams, Legal and Compliance for risks, assessments, and reporting to meet regulatory requirements.
  • Support audit and regulatory inspections: Support data compilation to respond to US and international audit/regulator inquiries.
  • Maintain an industry pulse: Maintain awareness of international regulation, emerging threats, forecasts, policies, and benchmarks

Requirements

  • 10+ years of experience working in a 1 or 2 LoD risk management function and/or Governance, Risk, and Compliance organization.
  • Experience working across both 1 and 2 LoD in highly technical domains or technical roles.
  • Can provide demonstrable outcomes working with highly technical teams (e.g. engineering organizations).
  • Can provide demonstrable examples of leveraging risk to enable the business rather than a regulatory or compliance requirement.
  • Technology risk domain knowledge: Ability to dig into technical risk solutions and to work on technical quantitative risk assessments across information technology domains such as asset management, resilience, systems development lifecycle, and infrastructure.
  • Risk domain knowledge and best practices: Familiarity with standards and frameworks e.g. ISO 27001/5, NIST CSF, COBIT, ITIL, DORA, FAIR risk quant methodology to measure controls/risks, monitor controls/risks, and validating/racking/evidencing remediation.
  • Clear/concise communicator and writer; experience drafting/operationalizing project plans across stakeholders, holding teams accountable, and documenting deliverables to varying levels of junior and senior stakeholder audiences. Ability to translate controls/risk standards out of compliance speak and into functional requirements and across varying levels of technical stakeholders.
  • Comfortable working with project management tooling (e.g. Jira, Archer) with excellent organization and project management skills to support a fast-moving and demanding environment.
  • Managing high performing teams: Demonstrable experience managing and mentoring analysts to grow and mature their capabilities and careers.
  • Navigating ambiguity and complexity: Ability to manage a queue against strategic priorities and shows expertise in being able to handle multiple assessments at a time. You are comfortable operating on an unpaved road and dealing with ambiguity.
  • Drive for continuous learning: You are willing to learn and apply processes unique to the challenges at Coinbase. You have a willingness to embrace a steep learning curve and stretch opportunities to learn new skills.
Benefits
  • bonus eligibility
  • equity eligibility
  • benefits (including medical, dental, vision and 401(k))

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.

Hard skills
risk managementrisk quantificationrisk mitigationrisk assessmentrisk scoring methodologiestechnical risk solutionsquantitative risk assessmentsdata quality controlautomationprocess improvements
Soft skills
clear communicationconcise writingteam managementmentoringorganizational skillsproject managementnavigating ambiguitycontinuous learningcollaborationperformance feedback
Certifications
ISO 27001NIST CSFCOBITITILDORAFAIR risk quant methodology
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