Coinbase: Capacity Planning Lead — Remote - USA

About Coinbase

Coinbase works on digital-asset and financial technology, with its recruitment material discussing an open financial system and crypto-related markets. Its advertised business activities connect consumer and business products with engineering, financial operations and regulated-market development. The company describes local product initiatives alongside the compliance, policy and operational work needed to support them. This gives the business both a technology dimension and a financial-services context, with product delivery linked to the requirements of the markets in which it operates.

The position and its setting

Coinbase lists Capacity Planning Lead in Remote - USA, under reference 8238573. The details below separate the work described by the employer from essential conditions, preferred experience and practical preparation advice.

• Department: Customer Experience
• Employer listing date: 29 September 2026

Responsibilities and work described

• Own forecasts and short-range capacity plans across multiple compliance queues and markets, translating volume, AHT, and shrinkage trends into staffing requirements and coverage plans
• Use hybrid human–AI tooling to build and maintain capacity models that reflect the growing complexity of our support channels and workforce structure
• Create multi-scenario staffing plans that model trade-offs between Service Levels, Employee Experience, Operational Flexibility, and Cost Effectiveness
• Partner with vendor management and BPO partners to ensure staffing targets and contractual SLAs are met
• Collaboration: with Compliance Operations, Finance, and Recruiting to align capacity plans with headcount budgets, growth targets, and business priorities
• Analysis: drivers of forecast misses and continuously improve forecasting methodology using statistical and data-driven approaches
• Automate and streamline planning processes to reduce manual effort and increase the accuracy and scalability of outputs
• Clearly communicate capacity risks, dependencies, and staffing recommendations to operational stakeholders and WFM leadership
• Utilize generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in workflow efficiency, cost, and quality
• Required skills and

Essential requirements and candidate background

• Minimum 4 years of relevant experience in Workforce Management, with demonstrated expertise in capacity planning and forecasting
• Ability to build and maintain capacity models, with proficiency in Excel and/or Google Sheets; experience with WFM platforms (e.g., Assembled or comparable)
• Experience working across multiple support channels and planning for both FTE and vendor/BPO workforces
• Work with large datasets to identify trends, model scenarios, and translate quantitative outputs into clear operational recommendations
• Analytical skills with a data-driven approach to workforce decision-making
• Written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to clearly convey capacity risks and staffing plans to operational and cross-functional stakeholders
• Highly flexible and adaptable to the evolving needs of a high-growth, fast-paced organization
• Nice to haves: Experience with BI tools such as Looker
• SQL experience; familiarity with agentic or AI-assisted planning tools; experience in tech or fintech
• Utilizes generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in workflow efficiency, cost, and quality
• Positon ID #: P77106
• Pay Transparency Notice: Base salary varies by location (see range below)
• Total compensation may also include equity and bonus eligibility, and benefits (medical, dental, vision, 401(k))

Preferred experience and additional strengths

• $108,630 — $127,800 USD
• Application Limit: Candidates may submit a maximum of 3 applications within a 6-month period
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• Accommodations: If you are an individual with a disability who needs a reasonable accommodation, email us your request and contact info at accommodations[at]coinbase.com
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Location, schedule and contract conditions

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• Work arrangement: Remote
• Advertised location: Remote - USA

Pay and application dates

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How to apply to Coinbase

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Practical preparation: SQL

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Relevant skills

• SQL
• AI/ML
• Excel
• AI
• compliance
• stakeholder management
• communication