Cybercrime Threat Hunting Manager

Us Bank; Cincinnati (OH); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

U.S. Bank is seeking a Cybercrime Threat Hunting Manager to build and lead a proactive detection and investigation capability within Information Security. The role will establish the team’s strategy, operating model, and governance while hiring and developing a multidisciplinary team.

The role involves personally leading complex hunts, connecting cyberattack behaviors to fraud outcomes, and turning findings into detections, playbooks, and improvements across banking channels.

Qualifications

• Five or more years in cyber threat hunting, cybercrime, threat intelligence, or related fields.
• Three or more years of direct people leadership experience.
• Experience leading complex cybercrime or cyber threat investigations.
• Strong ability to develop hypotheses and analyze multi-source data.
• Solid understanding of hunting methodologies and investigative techniques.

Responsibilities

• Build and lead a cybercrime threat-hunting and analytics capability.
• Set strategy, roadmap, governance, priorities, and success metrics.
• Hire, mentor, and develop a multidisciplinary threat-hunting team.
• Personally lead high-priority investigations into cyber-enabled financial crime.
• Translate findings into detections, playbooks, and control improvements.
• Partner with Fraud, Cyber Threat Intelligence, Identity, and Digital Banking teams.

Skills

Cyber threat hunting

People leadership

Investigations

Threat intelligence

Incident response

Cross-functional collaboration

Job description

At U.S. Bank, we're on a journey to do our best. Helping the customers and businesses we serve to make better and smarter financial decisions and enabling the communities we support to grow and succeed. We believe it takes all of us to bring our shared ambition to life, and each person is unique in their potential. A career with U.S. Bank gives you a wide, ever-growing range of opportunities to discover what makes you thrive at every stage of your career. Try new things, learn new skills and discover what you excel at-all from Day One.

Job Description

This position is not eligible for visa sponsorship.

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 team's 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.

Main Responsibilities

• Build and lead a new cybercrime threat-hunting and analytics capability.
• Establish the team's 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.

Must Have Skills

• 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.

Nice to Have Skills

• 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, l