Coinbase · 10 hours ago
Senior Analyst, Technology Risk
United States
Full-time
Remote
Senior Level
$167K/yr - $197K/yr
5+ years expCoinbase is a company dedicated to increasing economic freedom through crypto and blockchain technology. They are seeking a Senior Analyst of Technology Risk to support their technology and security risk management program, focusing on risk analysis, communication, and collaboration across global teams.
BitcoinBlockchainCryptocurrencyFinTechTrading Platform
Responsibilities
Analysis of multiple variables, including but not limited to, threat intelligence and risks, to inform threat models/risk scoring methodologies
Enable risk informed business outcomes: Enable teams and leadership to make risk-based decisions by clearly communicating quantitative and qualitative tradeoffs
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
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
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
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
Execute risk assessments: Execute technical risk assessments across our production and corporate environments, enabling the team to communicate risk in both qualitative and quantitative terms
Qualification
Required
5+ years of experience working in a 1 or 2 LoD risk management function and/or Governance, Risk, and Compliance organization
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
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
Comfortable working with project management tooling (e.g. Jira, Archer) and quant and qualitative data analytics tooling
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
Regulatory familiarity: Working knowledge of major regulatory/legal frameworks (US/international) driving requirements across technology organizations
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
Excellent organization and project management skills in a fast-moving and demanding environment
Preferred
FinTech, TradFi, consulting, business operations technical program management or other customer-facing disciplines
Strong knowledge of risk/control issues in relation to evolving technology (e.g., crypto, mobile, cloud, data lakes, machine learning)
Certification is a plus, but not a requirement: information security risk management qualifications like CRISC, CISA, CISSP, CISM, and FAIR
Coding knowledge a plus, but not a requirement (e.g. learn to build data joins, integrations with GRC and data visualization tools)
Demonstrated beginner/intermediate knowledge of crypto/blockchain/web3
Benefits
Bonus eligibility
Equity eligibility
Benefits (including medical, dental, vision and 401(k))
Company
Coinbase
Coinbase is a crypto exchange and wallet platform that allows merchants and consumers to buy, sell, and store digital currencies.
1001-5000 employees
H1B Sponsorship
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2025 (181)
2024 (92)
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$4.46BKey Investors
ARK Investment ManagementDFJ GrowthTiger Global Management
2025-12-19Post Ipo Equity· $4.2M
2025-08-05Post Ipo Debt· $2.6B
2025-03-04Post Ipo Equity· $8M
Leadership Team
Brian Armstrong
CEO & Co-Founder
Alesia Haas
Chief Financial Officer
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