Regional Threat Assessment Manager
- Your dedication to protecting others and your thorough, methodical approach support detailed case management.
- You are highly collaborative and supportive, fostering trust within cross-functional teams.
- Your attention to the human element helps in empathetic interactions with affected individuals.
- You follow established protocols diligently, ensuring consistency in threat assessments.
- Your preference for harmony and avoidance of confrontation can hinder decisive action in high-conflict threat situations.
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We're hiring a Regional Threat Assessment Manager to join the Protective Intelligence program within Coinbase's Security organization. This team protects Coinbase employees, executives, facilities, and operations by identifying, assessing, and mitigating threats through intelligence-led case management and structured behavioral assessment. You'll serve as the regional lead and subject matter expert for Threat Assessment and Management, owning complex and sensitive threat cases end-to-end while partnering with GSOC, Executive Protection, Legal, HR/ER, Insider Threat, and other stakeholders to drive coordinated response and help mature the program's regional capabilities.
What you'll do:
- Own end-to-end threat case management for your region, from intake, triage, and behavioral assessment through mitigation planning, documentation, and closure for threats impacting employees, executives, facilities, and other Coinbase assets.
- Lead structured behavioral threat assessments using Coinbase methodologies and accepted frameworks (e.g., JACA, WAVR-21, CTAP-25) to evaluate motivation, capability, escalation indicators, and stabilizers, then translate findings into clear operational recommendations.
- Drive intelligence-led incident response by serving as the intelligence lead during active incidents, coordinating with GSOC, ensuring timely escalation, and delivering decision support through resolution.
- Partner cross-functionally with Executive Protection, GSOC, Legal, HR/ER, Insider Threat, and Communications to coordinate response actions, align mitigations, and manage reporting obligations.
- Produce decision-ready briefings, written assessments, and executive updates that communicate threat posture, risk rationale, and recommended next steps to security leadership and cross-functional partners.
- Strengthen regional program maturity by improving intake standards, QA/QC, playbooks, metrics, training, and handoff processes, and by mentoring peers through expertise and influence.
Required Skills and Experience:
- 7+ years of progressively responsible experience in threat assessment and management, protective intelligence, workplace violence prevention, behavioral threat assessment, or closely related security functions.
- Demonstrated track record operating as a senior individual contributor and regional SME, independently owning ambiguous, high-consequence casework with limited oversight while influencing outcomes across teams without direct authority.
- Proven ability to conduct threat investigations and translate fragmented information into clear assessments, prioritized risks, and practical mitigation plans using structured professional judgment frameworks.
- Proficiency with case management and intelligence tools (e.g., Ontic, OSINT platforms, public records research, social media monitoring) with a track record of improving processes and tooling to increase signal quality.
- Experience coordinating with law enforcement, managing investigative referrals, and navigating workplace violence reporting obligations across jurisdictions.
- Utilizes generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in workflow efficiency, cost, and quality.
Pay Transparency Notice: The target annual base salary for this position can range as detailed below. Total compensation may also include equity and bonus eligibility and benefits (including medical, dental, and vision).
- Application Limit: Candidates may submit a maximum of 3 applications within a 6-month period.
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- AI Disclosure: 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. 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. Coinbase will not use AI to make decisions impacting employment.
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