Privacy Analyst

ABOUT THE ROLE Coinbase is seeking a highly motivated and experienced Privacy Analyst to join our team. As a key member of our Privacy team, you will own the Privacy Incident Management function, reporting to the Head of Privacy. You will partner across various teams to triage incidents involving personal data, drive privacy analysis, coordinate remediation, and continuously improve how Coinbase responds to privacy incidents. WHAT YOU'LL DO As a Privacy Analyst, you will be responsible for leading the end-to-end Privacy Incident Management program, including notification workflows, escalation paths, process documentation, responder enablement, and automation opportunities. You will also lead privacy incident response as the DRI and Incident Commander, coordinating across various teams to drive analysis, remediation, and follow-through. Additionally, you will maintain on-call readiness to support privacy incident triage, severity classification, and urgent escalations, ensuring incidents are correctly assessed and routed. You will also drive privacy incident retrospectives, track resulting remediation items and control gaps, and deliver incident metrics and reporting covering trends, remediation status, and process health. WHAT YOU'LL NEED To be successful in this role, you will need: - 3+ years of experience in privacy, security, incident response, technology risk, or a related operational risk function, including direct experience leading or supporting incident, issue, or risk workflows requiring structured analysis, documentation, and cross-functional coordination. - Strong incident management skills with experience communicating privacy risk and incident findings to both technical and non-technical audiences, including producing written incident analyses, retrospective documentation, and executive-level summaries. - Proven track record of leading technical investigations within cloud-native architectures, with hands-on proficiency in SQL, Python, and data analysis tools (e.g., Postgres, MongoDB, Airflow, Looker, Snowflake). - Demonstrated experience building automation to reduce manual operational tasks and improve incident response efficiency. - Working knowledge of privacy regulations and frameworks (e.g., GDPR, CCPA, PIPEDA, ePrivacy, DPIAs/PIAs, ROPA, data subject rights) data subject rights, privacy controls, and privacy issue management. - Utilizes and builds generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in workflow efficiency, cost, and quality. WHY REMOTE Coinbase is a remote-first company, but not remote-only. You can expect to get together quarterly for intense in-person working sessions called “surges.” BENEFITS - Annual base salary range: $135,320 - $159,200 USD - Total compensation may also include equity and bonus eligibility, and benefits (medical, dental, vision, 401(k)) - Coinbase is an Equal Opportunity Employer and an Equal Opportunity Provider - We are committed to providing a fair and inclusive work environment for all employees