Senior Manager, Compliance Product Data

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Ready to be pushed beyond what you think you’re capable of?

At Coinbase, our mission is to increase economic freedom in the world. It’s a massive, ambitious opportunity that demands the best of us, every day, as we build the emerging onchain platform — and with it, the future global financial system.

To achieve our mission, Coinbase is seeking a candidate who is passionate about crypto and blockchain technology, eager to leave a mark, and comfortable working in a high-performance culture that expects in-person participation throughout the year for team and company-wide offsites.

In this critical leadership role you will serve as a player-coach, building the function from the ground up and acting as the primary architect and execution lead for Coinbase's Compliance data ecosystem. You will sit at the intersection of Engineering, Product, and Compliance to ensure data is fit for purpose across compliance use cases.

Responsibilities

• Build, lead, and develop a team of Data Product Managers/Analysts; foster a culture of technical excellence, accountability, and continuous improvement.
• Provide leadership for the Compliance data product suite covering Customer Risk Scoring, Transaction Monitoring, AML, Screening, and Sanctions.
• Lead the design and implementation of an end-to-end Compliance data risk framework focused on Data Quality (DQ), Usage Risk, and Lineage Risk.
• Serve as the final authority on formal data contracts between Producers (Engineering) and Consumers (Compliance, CX, IOS), defining control requirements and change management protocols.
• Partner with senior engineering stakeholders to maintain comprehensive data lineage from point of data generation to regulatory reporting.
• Act as the strategic bridge between Compliance SMEs and Engineering leadership to ensure data integrity is built into technical design.
• Drive a risk-based prioritization strategy focusing on high-materiality data elements and data ownership.

Requirements

• Proven track record managing and scaling technical data product teams within a regulated Financial Services or FinTech environment.
• 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 and translate 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).
• Exceptional stakeholder management skills with the ability to align competing priorities between speed to market and data integrity at the executive level.
• Risk-based thinking and experience designing compensating controls to manage residual risk in complex technical environments.
• Familiarity with cloud-native modern data stack technologies and how they handle metadata and lineage at scale (Snowflake, Databricks, BigQuery).

Nice to haves

• Advanced certifications such as CAMS (Anti-Money Laundering Specialist) or CDMP (Certified Data Management Professional).

Compensation & Additional Information

• Annual base salary range (excluding equity and bonus): $252,620 — $297,200 USD. Total compensation may also include equity, bonus eligibility, and benefits (including medical, dental, vision and 401(k)).
• Job #: P75991
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• Coinbase participates in E-Verify in certain locations as required by law and provides reasonable accommodations for candidates with disabilities. For select roles Coinbase may pilot AI tools for initial screening interviews; human review remains part of the process.