Staff Technical Program Manager, Consumer

Overview

Senior Technical Program Manager on the Consumer & Business organization, leading high-priority, multi-quarter cross-functional programs that turn strategy into reliably shipped features across Coinbase's flagship retail trading and investing experiences.

What you'll do

• Own end-to-end delivery of complex, cross-functional programs from problem definition through launch and post-launch follow-up, ensuring scope, milestones, dependencies, and success metrics are defined and tracked.
• Drive the operating cadence for your programs (kickoffs, status reviews, dashboards, risk tracking) to keep teams aligned and accountable across Product, Engineering, Design, Data, and business partners.
• Identify risks and cross-team dependencies proactively, drive mitigations, and escalate crisply when leadership decisions are needed.
• Partner with Engineering leads to evaluate technical trade-offs around reliability, scalability, and long-term maintainability, ensuring architecture decisions support program goals.
• Translate product and business goals into executable program plans and define program-level KPIs that guide prioritization and decision-making.

What you'll need

• 7+ years of experience as a Technical Program Manager, Engineering leader, or similar role driving large technical programs in a high-growth consumer technology company.
• Proven track record leading cross-functional initiatives through significant ambiguity, tight timelines, and regulatory constraints, with demonstrated ability to drive programs independently from early framing through launch.
• Technical fluency in modern distributed systems sufficient to engage with Staff+ engineers on architecture, design trade-offs, and sequencing decisions.
• Experience defining program-level KPIs and using dashboards and data to guide prioritization, with a track record of influencing outcomes without direct authority across Product, Engineering, and business teams.
• Utilizes generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in workflow efficiency, cost, and quality.

Nice to have

• Familiarity with trading, brokerage, payments, or other high-throughput fintech products, or with crypto, web3, or DeFi ecosystems.

Details

• Remote-first, but not remote-only; quarterly in-person working sessions called "surges."
• Annual base salary range (excluding equity and bonus): $193,970 — $228,200 USD.
• Total compensation may also include equity, bonus eligibility, and benefits (medical, dental, vision, 401(k)).