Senior Manager, Digital Fraud & Abuse
Bethesda, MD - USA
Job Summary
At GEICO we offer a rewarding career where your ambitions are met with endless possibilities.
Every day we honor our iconic brand by offering quality coverage to millions of customers and being there when they need us most. We thrive through relentless innovation to exceed our customers expectations while making a real impact for our company through our shared purpose.
When you join our company we want you to feel valued supported and proud to work here. Thats why we offer The GEICO Pledge: Great Company Great Culture Great Rewards and Great Careers.
Like all large digital enterprises GEICO faces industrywide challenges related to digital fraud and customer account abuse. These challenges present an opportunity to strengthen customer trust improve resilience across our digital experiences and lead with thoughtful modern protections. By establishing a dedicated Digital Fraud & Abuse capability GEICO is taking a proactive coordinated approachowning the customer abuse lifecycle end to end and continuously improving the effectiveness of the controls that safeguard our customers and our business.
The Senior Manager Digital Fraud & Abuse will lead a netnew enterprise capability responsible for owning customer digital abuse risk across GEICO. This role is not accountable for daytoday fraud operations or case handling. Instead it ownsprogrammatic defense: understanding how attacks occur measuring harm and control effectiveness and driving coordinated change across products platforms and processes to eliminate the structural conditions that make fraud and abuse possible.
This leader will operate horizontally across Product Engineering Cybersecurity Identity AntiFraud Operations Claims Payments and Customer Service to harden customerfacing systems and workflows ensuring that detection and response learnings are continuously translated into durable preventive controls that protect both customers and GEICO.
This role will:
Stand up and lead GEICOs Digital Fraud & Abuse function
Own the customer abuse lifecycle and control effectiveness enterprisewide
Drive authentication risk and platform evolution to prevent account abuse
Reduce fraud and customer harm through structural programmatic defense
Scope of Responsibility
Own the customer digital abuse lifecycle endtoend from access and authentication through downstream business process enablement
Monitor size and report on fraud and abuse impact trends and customer harm
Define measure and continuously improve the effectiveness and health of preventive and detective antifraud controls
Act as the central point of accountability for customer account abuse prevention across GEICO
Lead a small highleverage Digital Fraud & Abuse team focused on program ownership analytics and enablement
Customer Abuse Lifecycle Ownership
Own the customer digital abuse lifecycle endtoend spanning authentication account access recovery and downstream business processes
Monitor size and communicate fraud and abuse impact trends and customer harm across GEICO
Act as the accountable owner for understandinghowandwhyabuse occurs even where execution sits with other teams
Control Effectiveness & Insight
Define and measure the effectiveness and health of preventive and detective antifraud controls
Establish clear visibility into abuse telemetry signal quality and coverage gaps
Track outcomes including fraud enablement customer friction and false positives to guide enterprise decisionmaking
Platform Identity & Structural Defense
Drive development of external fraud signal analysis for authentication and business process use
Influence centralized risk scoring adaptive authentication and conditional access capabilities
Identify and eliminate structural conditions across products and platforms that enable repeatable or automated attacks
Ensure fraud and abuse resistance is embedded into product and platform roadmaps
Enterprise Hardening & Feedback Loops
Drive disparate teams across GEICO to harden systems workflows and processes against fraud and abuse
Partner closely with AntiFraud Operations to absorb learnings from fraud response and investigations
Translate reactive insights into proactive durable programs of work that reduce recurrence
Qualifications
10 years in digital fraud abuse prevention identity risk or adjacent domains
Direct experience owning fraud or abuse programs endtoend (beyond operations)
Strong understanding of account takeover social engineering and authentication risk
Proven ability to drive change through influence in large matrixed organizations
Experience partnering closely with product and engineering teams on platform evolution
Preferred
Experience building programmatic fraud prevention capabilities
Insurance fintech or largescale consumer digital platform experience
Familiarity with adaptive authentication device intelligence and risk engines
Certifications such as CFE CAMS or equivalent
Experience translating fraud learnings into durable product and platform controls.
Annual Salary
$120000.00 - $260000.00The above annual salary range is a general guideline. Multiple factors are taken into consideration to arrive at the final hourly rate/ annual salary to be offered to the selected candidate. Factors include but are not limited to the scope and responsibilities of the role the selected candidates work experience education and training the work location as well as market and business considerations.
The GEICO Pledge:
Great Company:At GEICO we help our customers through lifes twists and turns. Our mission is to protect people when they need it most and were constantly evolving to stay ahead of their needs.
Were an iconic brand that thrives on innovation exceeding our customers expectations and enabling our collective success. From day one youll take on exciting challenges that help you grow and collaborate with dynamic teams who want to make a positive impact on peoples lives.
Great Careers:We offer a career where you can learn grow and thrive through personalized development programs created with your career and your potential in mind. Youll have access to industry leading training certification assistance career mentorship and coaching with supportive leaders at all levels.
Great Culture:We foster an inclusive culture of shared success rooted in integrity a bias for action and a winning mindset. Grounded by our core values we have an an established culture of caring inclusion and belonging that values different perspectives. Our teams are led by dynamic multi-faceted teams led by supportive leaders driven by performance excellence and unified under a shared purpose.
As part of our culture we also offer employee engagement and recognition programs that reward the positive impact our work makes on the lives of our customers.
Great Rewards:We offer compensation and benefits built to enhance your physical well-being mental and emotional health and financial future.
- Comprehensive Total Rewards program that offers personalized coverage tailor-made for you and your familys overall well-being.
- Financial benefits including market-competitive compensation; a 401K savings plan vested from day one that offers a 6% match; performance and recognition-based incentives; and tuition assistance.
- Access to additional benefits like mental healthcare as well as fertility and adoption assistance.
- Supports flexibility- We provide workplace flexibility as well as our GEICO Flex program which offers the ability to work from anywhere in the US for up to four weeks per year.
The equal employment opportunity policy of the GEICO Companies provides for a fair and equal employment opportunity for all associates and job applicants regardless of race color religious creed national origin ancestry age gender pregnancy sexual orientation gender identity marital status familial status disability or genetic information in compliance with applicable federal state and local law. GEICO hires and promotes individuals solely on the basis of their qualifications for the job to be filled.
GEICO reasonably accommodates qualified individuals with disabilities to enable them to receive equal employment opportunity and/or perform the essential functions of the job unless the accommodation would impose an undue hardship to the Company. This applies to all applicants and associates. GEICO also provides a work environment in which each associate is able to be productive and work to the best of their ability. We do not condone or tolerate an atmosphere of intimidation or harassment. We expect and require the cooperation of all associates in maintaining an atmosphere free from discrimination and harassment with mutual respect by and for all associates and applicants.
Required Experience:
Senior Manager
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