Hybrid Technical Program Manager II

at Coinbase

• Job title: Technical Program Manager II
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Mid level, Senior
• Salary: $167,280 - $196,800 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: SDLC
• Location requirements: Hybrid, United States

About the role

• Program Manager on the Security team at Coinbase identifying and addressing security risks for digital assets. Collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure business objectives align with security initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Collaborating with program sponsors and cross-functional Security partners to identify, document, and objectively assess opportunities, challenges, and risks across traditional and novel Security domains using qualitative and quantitative factors, including KRIs and KPIs.
• Serving as the Directly Responsible Individual (DRI) for key security initiatives or workstreams when required, owning outcomes and driving decision-making to keep programs moving forward.
• Creating program strategies and artifacts, including proposals, prioritization frameworks, roadmaps, dependency maps, and risk registers, to drive initiatives that incrementally increase program maturity over time.
• Partnering with Product, Engineering, and Security teams to influence adoption of critical initiatives, navigate technical dependencies, and support the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) as part of product and feature launches.
• Concurrently managing multiple critical projects end-to-end: establishing milestones and timelines, managing cross-functional workstreams and dependencies, holding teams accountable for deliverable quality, and clearly communicating the impact of delays on project timelines and security risk posture.
• Providing program status to Security leadership while ensuring transparency on key metrics, program effectiveness, strategic direction, and changes.
• Conducting regular data analysis on security control performance to identify trends, anomalies, and areas for improvement, leveraging BI tools to drive data-informed decisions.
• Driving process improvement and scaling initiatives within security programs by leveraging AI tools, automation, and retrospectives to optimize workflows, reduce manual toil, and achieve outcomes efficiently.
• Authoring Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) to focus teams on the right short-term and long-term goals, and managing change across complex multi-quarter programs.
• Rapidly identifying and escalating risks to enable proactive collaboration and timely resolution.

Requirements

• A Bachelor’s degree or master's degree in a related field
• 5+ years experience as a program manager or related discipline
• 5+ years of experience in security, risk management, compliance, information systems or other relevant fields
• Strong understanding and proven experience of formal program management methodologies
• Working knowledge of and experience in cyber/security domain
• Fluency in leveraging AI in daily workflows to enhance efficiency, drive process improvements, and deliver high-quality, business-ready outputs.
• Exceptional skills in time management, facilitation, communication, and organization
• Ability to translate complex concepts simply for varied audiences
• Experience managing cross-functional teams and stakeholders
• Comfortable navigating ambiguity and operating in environments where processes and paved roads may not yet exist.

Benefits

• medical
• dental
• vision
• 401(k)