Associate General Counsel, Privacy

🏒 Coinbase · πŸ“ Remote - Ireland · πŸ’Ό remote
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Position Summary & Responsibilities

Ready to do the most impactful work of your career? At Coinbase, we are uncompromising on our mission to increase economic freedom. The bar is high, the environment is intense, and we like it that way. This isn't a place for complacency, it’s a place to be pushed past your perceived limits. If you're ready to build the future of finance alongside people who refuse to settle for "good enough," you belong here. Coinbase is a remote-first, but not remote-only company. Expect to get together quarterly for intense in-person working sessions called β€œsurges.” learn more about working at Coinbase.

As Associate General Counsel, you'll join Coinbase's Privacy Legal team reporting to the Managing General Counsel. You'll serve as a senior legal advisor on privacy and data protection across the company's global operations. This role sits at the intersection of product development, regulatory strategy, and data governance, advising teams on how to build privacy-forward products while navigating a rapidly evolving regulatory landscape. You'll partner with Privacy Operations, Product Counsel, Security, and Engineering to shape Coinbase's privacy program, translate complex global requirements into actionable guidance, and represent the company with regulators and government agencies in one of its most important markets.

What you'll do:

  • Own the development, implementation, and scaling of Coinbase's global privacy program in partnership with Privacy Operations, including policy drafting, data protection agreements, and transparency reports
  • Lead cross-functional privacy initiatives spanning data governance, data protection tooling, and data subject rights processes in collaboration with CX, Engineering, and international teams
  • Partner with Product and Commercial Counsel to embed privacy-by-design principles into the product development and launch lifecycle, translating regulatory requirements into clear, actionable product guidance
  • Drive Coinbase's response to privacy incidents, regulatory inquiries, and law enforcement demands in coordination with Security and Trust & Risk
  • Shape Coinbase's external privacy narrative and engage directly with government agencies, privacy regulators, and data protec
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Key Role Competencies & Evaluation Highlights

Key Role Focus:

The bar focuses on uncompromising cryptographic security, extreme ownership under regulatory ambiguity, and the 'Topgrading' performance standard.

πŸ“‹ Preparation Priorities (Key Areas to Clarify):
  • 1. Hand-waving security edge cases or treating compliance and KYC/AML as mere bureaucracy
  • 2. Failing the intense cultural alignment and values interview (e.g., 'Act Like an Owner')
  • 3. Inability to defend architectural decisions against adversarial threat models
✨ Recommended Role Alignment Hook:

I operate with extreme ownership to build secure, frictionless financial infrastructure that brings economic freedom to the world.

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