Senior Manager, Compliance Product Data

At Coinbase, our mission is to increase economic freedom in the world. We are seeking a passionate candidate who believes in the power of crypto and blockchain technology to update the financial system. Our work culture is intense and isn’t for everyone, but if you want to build the future alongside others who excel in their disciplines, there’s no better place to be.

- **Team Leadership & Mentorship:** Build, lead, and develop a team of Data Product Managers/Analysts. Foster a culture of technical excellence, accountability, and continuous improvement. - **Strategic Product Ownership:** Provide world-class leadership for the Compliance data product suite, covering Customer Risk Scoring, Transaction Monitoring, AML, Screening, and Sanctions. - **Architect Data Governance:** Lead the design and implementation of the end-to-end Compliance data risk framework, specifically addressing Data Quality (DQ), Usage Risk, and Lineage Risk. - **Enforce Data Contracts:** Serve as the final authority on formal data contracts between Producers (Engineering) and Consumers (Compliance, CX, IOS), defining robust control requirements and change management protocols. - **Oversee System-of-Capture Lineage:** Partner with senior engineering stakeholders to maintain comprehensive data lineage, ensuring full transparency from the point of data generation to regulatory reporting. - **Drive the Data Roadmap:** Act as the strategic bridge between Compliance SMEs and Engineering leadership to ensure data integrity is a foundational component of technical design, not a manual overlay. - **Risk-Based Prioritization:** Guide your team to eschew "boiling the ocean" in favor of a risk-based strategy, focusing on high-materiality data elements that drive systemic change and data ownership.

- **Leadership Experience:** Proven track record of managing and scaling technical data product teams within a regulated Financial Services or FinTech environment. - **Domain Expertise:** 10+ years of experience in Data Product Management, Data Engineering or Technical Program Management, with deep SME knowledge of AML, KYC, Sanctions, and/or Transaction Monitoring. - **Technical Design Literacy:** Ability to lead deep-dive discussions on ETL pipelines, SQL, and data modeling with Engineering partners while translating those needs for non-technical stakeholders. - **Mastery of Data Lineage:** Experience mapping complex data flows across distributed systems to meet rigorous regulatory standards (e.g., BCBS 239 or similar). - **Stakeholder Management:** Exceptional ability to align competing priorities between "speed to market" (Product) and "data integrity" (Compliance) at the executive level. - **Risk-Based Thinking:** A proactive approach to designing "compensating controls" to manage residual risk in complex technical environments. - **Modern Data Stack:** Familiarity with cloud-native environments (Snowflake, Databricks, BigQuery) and how they handle metadata and lineage at scale. - Demonstrates the ability to responsibly use generative AI tools and copilots (e.g., LibreChat, Gemini, Glean) in daily workflows.

- **Salary:** Annual base salary range (excluding equity and bonus): $252,620—$297,200 USD. - **Work Environment:** While many roles at Coinbase are remote-first, in-person participation is required throughout the year. Team and company-wide offsites are held multiple times annually to foster collaboration, connection, and alignment.

Coinbase Global, Inc. is an American cryptocurrency exchange platform that enables users to buy, sell, trade, store, stake, and transfer cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and Ethereum. It serves over 100 million users worldwide, operates in more than 100 countries, and provides infrastructure for onchain activities while advocating for crypto regulations.