Cybercrime Threat Hunting Manager

Location expectations:
This role requires working from a U.S. Bank location three (3) or more days per week.

U.S. Bank is seeking a Cybercrime Threat Hunting Manager to build and lead a new proactive cybercrime detection and investigation capability within Information Security. The role will focus on uncovering coordinated criminal activity across digital banking identity authentication API payment device voice and other customer-facing channels.

This person will serve as both a strategic people leader and an active senior threat hunter. They will establish the teams strategy operating model investigative methodology governance and measures of success while hiring and developing a multidisciplinary team. They will personally lead complex hunts connect cyberattack behavior to fraud and financial outcomes and turn investigative findings into detections watchlists playbooks control improvements and disruption recommendations.

• Build and lead a new cybercrime threat-hunting and analytics capability.
• Establish the teams strategy roadmap operating model governance priorities and success measures.
• Hire mentor and develop a multidisciplinary team of cybercrime threat hunters.
• Personally lead high-priority hypothesis-driven investigations involving cyber-enabled financial crime.
• Analyze activity across web mobile API identity authentication device voice payment account and customer-interaction channels.
• Investigate account takeover identity compromise credential attacks MFA abuse session hijacking bots proxies mule networks linked accounts and criminal infrastructure.
• Connect accounts identities devices sessions IP addresses domains phone numbers email addresses payment entities and other attributes to identify coordinated activity.
• Translate investigative findings into detection logic watchlists dashboards playbooks control recommendations and operational actions.
• Establish repeatable hunt methodologies evidence standards documentation requirements intake processes and operational handoffs.
• Partner with Fraud Strategy Financial Crimes Cyber Threat Intelligence Incident Response Identity and Access Management Product Digital Banking Data Analytics and other stakeholders.
• Communicate emerging threats investigative findings control gaps and business impact to senior leaders.
• Measure team performance through financial-crime discovery hunt execution detection conversion prevention disruption and operational quality.

• Five or more years of experience in cyber threat hunting cybercrime threat intelligence fraud intelligence security investigations incident response detection engineering or a closely related discipline.
• Three or more years of direct people-leadership experience.
• Demonstrated experience personally leading complex cybercrime or cyber threat investigations.
• Experience developing investigative hypotheses and analyzing multiple systems datasets or telemetry sources.
• Strong understanding of cyber threat-hunting methodologies and investigative techniques.
• Knowledge of identity compromise account takeover credential attacks authentication abuse session threats bots proxies phishing or related criminal infrastructure.
• Ability to operate across cybersecurity fraud data analytics and financial-crime functions.
• Experience translating investigative findings into measurable operational detection or control improvements.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills including experience presenting technical findings and recommendations to senior leaders.
• Demonstrated ability to lead strategic initiatives influence cross-functional stakeholders and drive results in an evolving environment.

• Experience building a new team program operating model or investigative capability.
• Experience in banking financial services payments fintech e-commerce telecommunications or another high-volume digital environment.
• Experience with digital banking online account opening mobile applications customer APIs authentication systems contact centers IVR or payment platforms.
• Knowledge of fraud monetization mule networks linked-account analysis synthetic identities business email compromise or organized criminal campaigns.
• Experience with graph analytics link analysis entity resolution behavioral analytics anomaly detection or relationship mapping.
• Experience developing detection logic correlation analytics watchlists dashboards or investigative playbooks.
• Familiarity with financial-sector intelligence sharing industry consortiums or law-enforcement partnerships.
• Relevant professional certifications in cybersecurity fraud financial crime intelligence investigations or data analytics.