Associate General Counsel, Privacy

Coinbase
United Kingdom
Workplace: RemoteFull timeGBP 167,960 - 176,800 annuallyFunction: Legal, Risk & ComplianceExperience: 8+ yearsEducation: professionalSkills: ["Cross-functional collaboration","Regulatory judgment","Privacy program leadership","Stakeholder management","Responsible AI oversight"]

Serve as a senior privacy legal advisor on Coinbase’s global privacy program, partnering with Privacy Operations, Product Counsel, Security, and Engineering. Own privacy policy and governance across data protection agreements, transparency reporting, and data subject rights processes. Embed privacy-by-design into product and launch workflows, coordinate responses to privacy incidents and regulatory inquiries, and represent the company with regulators and authorities across EMEA and globally.

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Coinbase
Coinbase
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Associate General Counsel, Privacy

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Job Summary

Serve as a senior privacy legal advisor on Coinbase’s global privacy program, partnering with Privacy Operations, Product Counsel, Security, and Engineering. Own privacy policy and governance across data protection agreements, transparency reporting, and data subject rights processes. Embed privacy-by-design into product and launch workflows, coordinate responses to privacy incidents and regulatory inquiries, and represent the company with regulators and authorities across EMEA and globally.
Location: United Kingdom
Workplace: Remote
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Legal, Risk & Compliance
Seniority: CXO level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Develop, implement, and scale Coinbase’s global privacy program, including policy drafting, data protection agreements, and transparency reports
  • •Lead cross-functional privacy initiatives across data governance, privacy/data protection tooling, and data subject rights processes
  • •Partner with Product and Commercial Counsel to embed privacy-by-design into product development and launch lifecycle
  • •Drive responses to privacy incidents, regulatory inquiries, and law enforcement demands in coordination with Security and Trust & Risk
  • •Shape Coinbase’s external privacy narrative and engage with government agencies, privacy regulators, and data protection authorities across EMEA and globally

Pay and Benefits

Salary: GBP 167,960 - 176,800 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity
Perks:Health InsuranceDentalVision

Key Requirements

  • •8+ years as a practicing attorney with 5+ years of substantive privacy experience, including in-house experience in technology or financial services
  • •JD (or international equivalent) with qualification as a lawyer in the UK, Ireland, or an EU jurisdiction
  • •Deep expertise in EU and international privacy/data protection law, including GDPR and other referenced regimes, with the ability to translate requirements into compliance controls
  • •Proven experience leading complex, cross-functional privacy programs across Legal, Product, Engineering, Security, and Operations
  • •Experience drafting and negotiating privacy policies, data protection agreements, and vendor information security terms; responding to regulatory inquiries
Experience:8+ yearsPrivacyData protectionFinancial servicesIn-house legal
Education:Professional (JD, MD, etc.)
Skills:Cross-functional collaborationRegulatory judgmentPrivacy program leadershipStakeholder managementResponsible AI oversight
Tech Stack:GDPRPIPEDALGPDCCPA/CPRA

Company Brief

Coinbase
Operates a cryptocurrency exchange and financial services platform that enables buying, selling, storing, and earning crypto assets, institutional trading, custody, and developer tools for blockchain applications.
Industry: Trading Platforms
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 1B+
Growth: Public Company
Valuation: Public Company (Market Cap in USD)
Funding: IPO / Publicly Listed
Headquarters: San Francisco, United States
Founded: 2012
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