Associate General Counsel, Privacy
Coinbase
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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 “surges.” 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 protection authorities across EMEA and globally
Required Skills and Experience:
- 8+ years as a practicing attorney with 5+ years of substantive privacy experience, including in-house experience at technology or financial services companies
- JD or international equivalent, with qualification as a lawyer in the UK, Ireland, or an EU jurisdiction
- Deep expertise in EU and international privacy and data protection law (GDPR, PIPEDA, LGPD, CCPA/CPRA, state data breach notification laws) with demonstrated ability to map global requirements to business practices and compliance controls
- Proven track record leading complex, cross-functional privacy programs requiring coordination across Legal, Product, Engineering, Security, and Operations
- Experience drafting and negotiating privacy policies, data protection agreements, and vendor information security terms, and responding to regulatory inquiries from data protection and consumer protection authorities
- Utilizes generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in workflow efficiency, cost, and quality.
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Benefits
- health insurance
- stock options
About this role
# About This Role
Coinbase is seeking an Associate General Counsel for Privacy to lead the company's global privacy program across its crypto and financial services operations. You'll report to the Managing General Counsel and serve as a senior legal advisor embedded at the intersection of product development, regulatory compliance, and data governance. The role requires you to translate complex international privacy laws—particularly GDPR, CCPA/CPRA, and other global frameworks—into actionable guidance for product, engineering, and commercial teams. You'll own policy development, data protection agreements, and incident response while representing Coinbase directly to regulators and government agencies, especially across EMEA.
This position demands deep expertise in privacy law and substantial in-house experience at technology or financial services companies. You'll need to be a qualified lawyer in the UK, Ireland, or an EU jurisdiction with at least eight years of legal practice and five years of substantive privacy work. The role is highly collaborative, requiring you to drive cross-functional initiatives spanning data governance, product launches, security, and regulatory inquiries. You should be comfortable drafting complex agreements, managing regulatory relationships, and embedding privacy-by-design thinking into fast-moving product cycles.
The role is remote-based but expects quarterly in-person working sessions. The base salary ranges from £167,960 to £176,800 GBP, with equity and bonus eligibility. This suits experienced privacy counsel ready for a high-impact role at a major financial services company navigating one of the most regulated sectors.
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