Staff Technical Program Manager (L6), Consumer
$194k - $228k USD
Ready to be pushed beyond what you think you’re capable of?
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.
Team / role overview
The Consumer organization owns Coinbase’s flagship retail experiences across trading, investing, and related financial products. As a L6 Senior Technical Program Manager on this team, you will lead high-priority, large, multi-quarter programs that span multiple product areas and engineering teams. You’ll turn strategy into clear plans, drive execution, and ensure we ship high-quality features reliably and on time.
Example launches led by TPMs: Equities, Prediction Markets, Credit Card.
What you’ll be doing
- Own end-to-end delivery of complex, cross-functional programs, from problem definition through launch and post-launch follow-up.
- Translate product and business goals into executable program plans, with clear scope, milestones, dependencies, and success metrics.
- Run the operating cadence for your programs (kickoffs, status reviews, dashboards, and risk tracking) to keep teams aligned and accountable.
- Proactively identify risks and cross-team dependencies, drive mitigations, and escalate crisply when leadership decisions are needed.
- Partner with Product, Engineering, Design, Data, and cross-functional teams (e.g., Compliance, Legal, CX, Finance) to make informed trade-offs.
- Develop a strong understanding of the systems and services in your area and ensure technical decisions support reliability, scalability, and long-term maintainability.
What we look for in you
- 7+ years of experience as a Technical Program Manager, Engineering leader, or similar role driving large technical programs in a high-growth or high-scale consumer technology company.
- Proven success leading cross-functional initiatives with significant ambiguity, tight timelines, and external or regulatory constraints.
- Strong technical fluency in modern distributed systems; comfortable engaging with Staff+ engineers on architecture, design trade-offs, and sequencing.
- Demonstrated ability to connect strategy to execution and independently drive programs from early framing through launch.
- Experience defining program-level KPIs and using dashboards and experiments to guide decisions.
- Strong stakeholder management skills and the ability to build trusted partnerships across Product, Engineering, and business teams.
- High ownership, bias for action, and comfort operating in a fast-paced, evolving environment.
- Genuine interest in crypto, financial markets, and Coinbase’s mission.
- 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
- Experience in trading, brokerage, payments, or other high-throughput fintech products.
- Experience in crypto, web3, or defi
Pay Transparency Notice:Depending on your work location, the target annual base salary for this position can range as detailed below. Total compensation may alsoinclude bonus eligibility and benefits (including medical, dental, vision and 401(k)).
Annual base salary range (excluding bonus):
$193,970—$228,200 USD
Please be advised that each candidate may submit a maximum of four applications within any 30-day period. We encourage you to carefully evaluate how your skills and interests align with Coinbase's roles before applying.
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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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