Job Description

OVERVIEW

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.”
As the Regional Security Manager, APAC, you’ll lead the development and execution of Coinbase’s regional security strategy on the Global Security team, protecting our people, workplaces, and operations across a diverse and rapidly evolving region. You’ll own the physical security program for APAC offices, critical facilities, and data centers, partnering with business leaders and cross-functional teams to manage risk, strengthen resilience, and drive incident response across multiple countries.
What You’ll Do
- Own the APAC physical security operating plan, regional risk register, site security standards, and remediation priorities across offices, critical facilities, and data centers.
- Lead site assessments, vulnerability reviews, security hardening projects, new office openings, relocations, and security system deployments across the region.
- Serve as the regional escalation point and Incident Commander for significant security events, coordinating the GSOC, workplace teams, vendors, building management, and emergency services.
- Govern regional access control, badging, visitor management, secure area access, and audit readiness while managing contracted security providers through SLAs, KPIs, and QBRs.
- Develop and maintain regional policies, SOPs, playbooks, drills, tabletop exercises, and employee-facing security guidance informed by APAC threat intelligence and local conditions.
Required Skills and Experience
- 8+ years in physical security, risk, or resilience operations within a multinational organization, including 5+ years leading APAC regional security programs across multiple countries and sites.
- Proven experience serving as Incident Commander during complex, cross-functional, or high-consequence security events with documented outcomes.
- Hands-on experience implementing and managing access control, CCTV, alarm, visitor management, and guard force systems across multiple facilities.
- Direct experience conducting risk and vulnerability assessments and converting findings into measurable, time-bound remediation plans.
- Track record managing security vendors through SLAs, KPIs, QBRs, performance improvement plans, and contract renewals in APAC markets.
- Utilizes generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in workflow efficiency, cost, and quality.