Senior Risk Analyst, Payments Risk Operations

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Senior Risk Analyst, Payments Risk Operations

As a Senior Risk Analyst on the Payments Risk Operations team, you'll serve as the escalation point for our most complex and high-impact risk cases across deposits, withdrawals, trading, and other flagged activity. You'll bring deep expertise in risk workflows and controls, make final calls on hard cases, and turn investigation insights into rule, model, process, and policy improvements in partnership with Risk Modeling, Fraud Detection, and Analytics. You'll work AI-native from day one, using Coinbase's AI tools to accelerate investigations while holding every output to the same evidentiary standard.

What you'll do

• Own escalations from Payments Risk Operations and partner teams, including high-dollar losses, suspected fraud rings, and high-profile accounts, making final decisions backed by clear evidence

• Lead the response to emerging f