Manager of Technology Risk supporting technology risk management program and team growth at Coinbase. Responsible for enabling informed business outcomes through effective risk communication and management.
Responsibilities
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.
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.
Build, grow, and coach a team of technology and security risk analysts; foster a culture of agility and innovation, and provide ongoing performance feedback.
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
8+ 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.
Managing high performing teams: Demonstrable experience managing and mentoring analysts to grow and mature their capabilities and careers.
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
Benefits
bonus eligibility
equity eligibility
benefits (including medical, dental, vision, and 401(k))
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