Privacy Analyst

About the role

As a Privacy Analyst at Coinbase, you will oversee the Privacy Incident Management program, ensuring effective workflows and documentation. Your role will involve leading incident responses and coordinating with various teams to analyze and remediate privacy incidents.

You will also be responsible for maintaining on-call readiness to triage incidents and drive retrospectives to track remediation efforts. Building strong relationships across teams will be crucial for enhancing incident response quality and business accountability.

The salary range for this position is between $60,000 and $100,000.

Skills that matter here

• SQL: This role requires hands-on proficiency in SQL for data analysis.
• Python: Python is essential for automation and managing operational tasks.
• data analysis: Data analysis skills are necessary for evaluating privacy incidents and trends.
• Postgres: Experience with Postgres is important for managing and analyzing data.
• MongoDB: Knowledge of MongoDB will support data management tasks.
• Airflow: Airflow is used for automating workflows related to incident management.

Who this role suits

• A candidate with a strong background in privacy or security incident management.
• Someone who communicates effectively with both technical and non-technical audiences.
• An individual who has experience leading cross-functional teams and managing complex workflows.
• A proactive person who is comfortable building automation to enhance efficiency.

From the employer

What you'll do:

• Own the end-to-end Privacy Incident Management program, including notification workflows, escalation paths, process documentation, responder enablement, and automation opportunities.
• Lead privacy incident response as the DRI and Incident Commander, coordinating across Privacy, Privacy Legal, CSIRT, Product, Engineering, and Communications to drive analysis, remediation, and follow-through.
• Maintain on-call readiness to support privacy incident triage, severity classification, and urgent escalations, ensuring incidents are correctly assessed and routed.
• Drive privacy incident retrospectives, track resulting remediation items and control gaps, and deliver incident metrics and reporting covering trends, remediation status, and process health.
• Build and maintain strong cross-functional and cross-geography stakeholder relationships to improve readiness, response quality, and business accountability.
• Support broader Privacy initiatives during lower-volume periods, including cross-functional efforts, tooling development, and automation projects.

Required Skills and Experience:

• 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.

Pay Transparency Notice:

• Base salary varies by location (see range below). Total compensation may also include equity and bonus eligibility, and benefits (medical, dental, vision, 401(k)).
• Annual base salary range (excluding equity and bonus): $135,320 — $159,200 USD.