Lead Cybercrime Threat Hunter & Analytics

Us Bank; Cincinnati (OH); On-site; USD 127,000 - 149,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare (medical, dental, vision)

401(k) retirement plan

Paid vacation

Job summary

U.S. Bank is seeking a Cybercrime Threat Hunting Manager to build and lead a proactive cybercrime detection and investigation capability within Information Security. You will personally lead complex hunts and translate findings into detections and playbooks.

The role requires leading a multidisciplinary team, establishing strategy and governance, and partnering with Fraud Strategy, Financial Crimes, and IT stakeholders. Location requires three days on-site per week.

Qualifications

• 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.

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.

Skills

Cyber threat hunting

People leadership

Threat investigations

Hypothesis development

Multi-system analysis

Investigation governance

Communication to leaders

Strategic initiative leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

Threat intelligence

Job description

U.S. Bank is seeking a Cybercrime Threat Hunting Manager to build and lead a proactive cybercrime detection and investigation capability within Information Security. You will personally lead complex hunts and translate findings into detections and playbooks.

The role requires leading a multidisciplinary team, establishing strategy and governance, and partnering with Fraud Strategy, Financial Crimes, and IT stakeholders. Location requires three days on-site per week.