Head of Cybercrime Threat Hunting

U.S. Bank; Minneapolis (MN); On-site; USD 127,000 - 149,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare (medical, dental, vision)

Life insurance

Short-term and long-term disability

Parental leave

401(k) retirement plan

Paid vacation

Paid holidays

Adoption assistance

Sick leave

Job summary

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.

This leader will guide a multidisciplinary team, develop strategy, and translate findings into detections and playbooks. The role requires leading complex hunts, connecting cyberattack behavior to fraud outcomes, and communicating risk to senior leadership.

Qualifications

• Five or more years of experience in cyber threat hunting or related discipline.
• Three or more years of direct people-leadership experience.
• Demonstrated experience leading complex cybercrime or cyber threat investigations.
• Experience developing investigative hypotheses across multiple datasets.
• Strong understanding of threat-hunting methodologies and techniques.
• Knowledge of identity compromise, credential attacks, MFA abuse, or related infrastructure.
• Ability to operate across cybersecurity, fraud, data analytics, and financial-crime.
• Experience translating findings into measurable improvements.
• Strong written and verbal communication for senior leaders.
• Proven ability to lead strategic cross-functional initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Build and lead a cybercrime threat-hunting and analytics capability.
• Set team strategy, roadmap, operating model, governance, priorities, and success measures.
• Hire, mentor, and develop a multidisciplinary team of threat hunters.
• Lead high-priority, hypothesis-driven investigations involving cyber-enabled financial crime.
• Analyze activity across web, mobile, API, identity, authentication, device, voice, and payments channels.
• Investigate account takeover, identity compromise, credential attacks, and related threats.
• Connect various data points to identify coordinated criminal activity.
• Translate findings into detection logic, watchlists, dashboards, and playbooks.
• Establish repeatable hunt methodologies and intake processes.
• Partner with Fraud Strategy, Financial Crimes, and other stakeholders.
• Communicate emerging threats and guidance to senior leaders.
• Measure team performance through discovery, detection, and disruption metrics.

Skills

Cyber threat hunting

People leadership

Cybercrime investigations

Threat intelligence

Security investigations

Incident response

Detection engineering

Data analysis

Cross-functional collaboration

Communication to leadership

Job description

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.

This leader will guide a multidisciplinary team, develop strategy, and translate findings into detections and playbooks. The role requires leading complex hunts, connecting cyberattack behavior to fraud outcomes, and communicating risk to senior leadership.