Cybercrime Threat Hunting Manager

U.S. Bank; Cincinnati (OH); Hybrid; USD 127,000 - 149,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare

401(k)

Paid vacation

Adoption assistance

Disability insurance

Job summary

U.S. Bank is seeking a Cybercrime Threat Hunting Manager to establish and lead a proactive detection and investigation capability within Information Security.

You will own the team strategy, governance, and methodologies while personally conducting high-priority hunts across digital banking channels. You will hire and mentor a multidisciplinary team, connect activity across identities, devices, and networks, and translate findings into detections, playbooks, and process improvements.

Qualifications

• Five or more years of experience in cyber threat hunting, cybercrime, threat intelligence, fraud intelligence, security investigations, or a related field.
• Three or more years of direct people-leadership experience.
• Experience leading complex cybercrime or cyber threat investigations and translating findings into actions.

Responsibilities

• Build and lead a new cybercrime threat-hunting and analytics capability.
• Establish strategy, roadmap, governance, priorities, and success measures for the team.
• Hire, mentor, and develop a multidisciplinary team of threat hunters.

Skills

Cyber threat hunting

Threat intelligence

Incident response

Leadership

Security investigations

Data analysis

Communication

Job description

## Cybercrime Threat Hunting ManagerApply: Cincinnati, OH: Minneapolis, MN: Full time: Posted Yesterday: End Date: September 7, 2026 (5 days left to apply): 2026-0026999At 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, 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.If there’s anything we can do to accommodate a disability during any portion of the application or hiring process, please refer to our disability accommodations for applicants.**Benefits:**Our approach to benefits and total rewards considers our team members’ whole selves and what may be needed to thrive in and outside work. That's why our benefits are designed to help you and your family boost your health, protect your financial security and give you peace of mind. Our benefits include the following:* Healthcare (medical, dental, vision)* Basic term and optional term life insurance* Short-term and long-term disability* Pregnancy disability and parental leave* 401(k) and employer-funded retirement plan* Paid vacation (from two to five weeks depending on salary grade and tenure)* Up to 11 paid holiday opportunities* Adoption assistance* Sick and Safe Leave accruals of one hour for every 30 worked, up to 80 hours per calendar year unless otherwise provided by lawReview our full benefits available by employment status here.U.S. Bank is an equal opportunity employer. We consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, religion, color, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or veteran status, and other factors protected under applicable law.**E-Verify**U.S. Bank participates in the U.S. Department of Homeland Security E-Verify program in all facilities located in the United States and certain U.S. territories. The E-Verify program is an Internet-based employment eligibility verification system operated by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. Learn more about the E-Verify program.The salary range reflects figures based on the primary location, which is listed first. The actual range for the role may differ based on the location of the role. In addition to salary, U.S. Bank offers a comprehensive benefits package, including incentive and recognition programs, equity stock purchase 401(k) contribution and pension (all benefits are subject to eligibility requirements). Pay Range: $126,820.00 - $149,200.00U.S. Bank will consider qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records for employment. U.S. Bank conducts background checks consistent with applicable local laws, including the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance and the California Fair Chance Act as well as the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance. U.S. Bank is subject to, and conducts background checks consistent with the requirements of Section 19 of the Federal Deposit Insurance Act (FDIA). In addition, certain positions may also be subject to the requirements of FINRA, NMLS registration, Reg Z, Reg G, OFAC, the NFA, the FCPA, the Bank Secrecy Act, the SAFE Act, and/or federal guidelines applicable to an agreement, such as those related to ethics, safety, or operational procedures.Applicants must be able to comply with U.S. Bank policies and procedures including the Code of Ethics and Business Conduct and related workplace conduct and safety policies.**Posting may be closed earlier due to high volume of applicants.**