Senior Manager, Adversary Management

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At Coinbase, our mission is to increase economic freedom in the world. It’s a massive, ambitious opportunity that demands the best of us, every day, as we build the emerging onchain platform — and with it, the future global financial system.

To achieve our mission, we’re seeking a very specific candidate. We want someone who is passionate about our mission and who believes in the power of crypto and blockchain technology to update the financial system. We want someone who is eager to leave their mark on the world, who relishes the pressure and privilege of working with high caliber colleagues, and who actively seeks feedback to keep leveling up. We want someone who will run towards, not away from, solving the company’s hardest problems.

Our work culture is intense and isn’t for everyone. But if you want to build the future alongside others who excel in their disciplines and expect the same from you, there’s no better place to be.

While many roles at Coinbase are remote-first, we are not remote-only. In-person participation is required throughout the year. Team and company-wide offsites are held multiple times annually to foster collaboration, connection, and alignment. Attendance is expected and fully supported.

Security is a primary competency at Coinbase, and the Security Operations team keeps a watchful eye over every aspect of it. Every day, we go to battle against some of the most sophisticated attackers in the world to protect billions of dollars worth of digital assets and ensure that our customers and employees can enjoy a safe, trusted experience. As Coinbase scales globally, our team is scaling along with it, using a blend of tooling, automation, and strategic team growth to ensure that we’re well-equipped to protect the next billion users of crypto.

The Senior Manager, Adversary Management is responsible for strategy, operational oversight, and governance of all aspects of cyber threat intelligence at Coinbase - to include ensuring intelligence support for the Security Operations and other Information Security intelligence requirements. The ideal candidate will possess a deep technical understanding of threat intelligence, cyber-fraud, blockchain (Web 3.0) and traditional (Web 2.0) threat landscapes. Reporting to the Senior Director, Security Operations, this leader will be instrumental in safeguarding the Coinbase environment, its products, and its customers by defining and delivering intelligence services that provide actionable intelligence and disruption of threat-actor activities.

To succeed in this role, you must possess a battle-hardened technical background, with a comprehensive understanding of threat landscapes spanning both traditional (Web 2.0) and cutting-edge blockchain technologies (Web 3.0). We want someone who’s hungry and eager to disrupt threat actors and ruin their day. You will be the mastermind behind our long-term and day-to-day strategies, driving the development of our Threat Intelligence and Threat Research teams and services.

What you’ll be doing (ie. job duties): 

• Lead a team of threat intelligence engineers and develop a culture around disruption and deflecting threat actors away from Coinbase and its customers
• Lead and set the long-term and day-to-day organizational strategies and operational battle rhythm for Threat Intelligence and Threat Research teams
• Engage and partner with leaders internal to Security Operations, Information Security, and across the business to identify intelligence requirements
• Define and implement strategies and processes for identification, collection, and processing of prioritized intelligence from external and internal sources and maintain accountability for supplier-provided intelligence providers and tools
• Drive stakeholder engagement and enablement through timely threat briefings and reporting on adversary capabilities and intentions
• Establish and maintain technical workflows to identify intelligence requirements, to prioritize related work, and to deploy analysis or disruption initiatives
• Participate in crypto and community engagements to benchmark teams' capabilities, identify strategic and tactical requirements, and to increase maturity as related to cyber and blockchain intelligence
• Have a niche for using AI across intelligence workflows from collection, dissemination and actionable intelligence. We know threat actors are using AI and we would want to stay ahead in the defender’s game
• Identify and define services and measurements (Gearing Ratio, KPI, KRI) in conjunction with direct-subordinates responsible for day-to-day operations
• Lead engagements with external intelligence sharing communities including FS-ISAC, Crypto ISAC, SEAL ISAC, etc.
• Maintain, revise and draft procedures and controls necessary to aid in effective risk and governance for all facets of the Threat Intelligence Operations and Automation function
• Prioritize mentoring, leadership, and administrative management of assigned personnel to include goal setting, feedback, and performance evaluation
• Perform other duties and/or special projects as assigned

What we look for in you (ie. job requirements): 

• You have experience designing, implementing, and operating highly disruptive Threat Intelligence technologies and services and possess a deep understanding of investigations and the threat intelligence lifecycle
• You’re able to mentor a group of highly technical threat intelligence analysts, teaching them a thing or two as you foster their professional growth as their manager. 
• You’re up-to-date on threat actors, their TTPs, and their motivations in targeting the FinTech or Crypto space
• You’ve mastered the art of efficiently leveraging AI agents to be able to perform threat analysis, build adversary trends and proactive define strategies on building identifying and recommending disruptive capabilities across SecOps teams
• You are comfortable working cross-functionally with product, IT, and other security stakeholders to design and implement intelligence tech and services
• You are actively aware of the threat landscape, and understand the legal, regulatory, and ethical considerations of working with sensitive information and situations
• You are discreet, thoughtful, and seek to coordinate systemic, cross functional  solutions to mitigate risk
• You are adept at translating complex problems into ‘byte-sized’, readily implemented (and preferably automated) solutions
• You have excellent verbal and written communication skills. Other team members ask for your input to communicate clearly and concisely and you are comfortable composing briefs and assessments consumed by leadership and training others
• You prefer to play as a team and are equally comfortable as the ‘novice’ or the ‘expert’ 
• Your high degree of empathy means that your coworkers trust you to help tackle their security problems, because you never come across as judgmental or condescending.
• Demonstrates the ability to responsibly use generative AI tools and copilots (e.g., LibreChat, Gemini, Glean) in daily workflows, continuously learn as tools evolve, and apply human‑in‑the‑loop practices to deliver business‑ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in efficiency, cost, and quality.

Nice to haves:

• Bring your vast network of intelligence resources and assets that contribute to the intelligence ecosystem at Coinbase
• Have a working or strong understanding blockchain and other crypto technologies
• Have experience in one or more of the following areas: incident response, risk management, counterintelligence, fraud detection, intellectual property theft, access and identity management, or IT engineering

Job ID: P76252

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AI Disclosure

For select roles, Coinbase is piloting an AI tool based on machine learning technologies to conduct initial screening interviews to qualified applicants. The tool simulates realistic interview scenarios and engages in dynamic conversation. A human recruiter will review your interview responses, provided in the form of a voice recording and/or transcript, to assess them against the qualifications and characteristics outlined in the job description.  

For select roles, Coinbase is also piloting an AI interview intelligence platform to transcribe and summarize interview notes, allowing our interviewers to fully focus on you as the candidate. 

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