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PLEASE NOTE: This position is not eligible for current or future visa sponsorship.
The Vice President, Senior Fraud Risk Strategist serves as a senior decision-maker and strategic authority responsible for defining, prioritizing, and advancing enterprise fraud risk initiatives across business lines, channels, and customer journeys. Operating at a materially higher level of scope and complexity, this role owns end-to-end problem framing, risk tradeoff decisions, and enterprise impact assessments. The VP leads cross-functional alignment across business, product, digital, operations, and risk partners—driving clear direction, resolving ambiguity, and embedding fraud strategy early in key initiatives. Unlike consultative roles, this position owns decisions, sets direction, and directly shapes enterprise priorities.
This role partners closely with analytics, technology, and solution teams, while remaining accountable for translating insights into enterprise strategy and execution. It drives innovation, proactively identifies emerging risks, and leads governance and prioritization across initiatives with disciplined program management, clear ownership, and structured execution oversight. The VP independently manages complex coordination, elevates decision quality, and ensures consistent application of fraud strategy—serving as the central point of accountability for enterprise fraud risk decisions and cross-functional execution.
Core Functions by Category
Enterprise Fraud Strategy, Risk Assessment. & Advisory
Own enterprise fraud risk strategy, defining priorities, investment decisions, and strategic direction across products, channels, and initiatives
Identify emerging risks, structural vulnerabilities, and control gaps, translating insights into decisive enterprise actions and integrated strategy
Establish and enforce strategy standards, decision frameworks, and operating models to drive aligned, scalable execution and consistent outcomes
Lead enterprise problem framing and set direction—evaluating tradeoffs, defining options, and making clear path decisions prior to execution
Drive enterprise alignment and results by prioritizing initiatives, resolving conflicts and gaps, and ensuring coordinated, end-to-end risk coverage
Act as a senior decision leader to business, product, digital, and operations partners—shaping early-stage direction and embedding fraud strategy across initiatives
Leverage analytics, KRIs, and quantified business impact to inform governance, prioritize investments, and elevate executive decision-making
Cross-Functional Influence & Governance
Set enterprise fraud risk strategy and make prioritization and investment decisions across business lines, channels, and customer journeys
Establish and lead enterprise program and project management disciplines - designing governance, workstreams, and execution models to ensure structured delivery, accountability, and measurable outcomes
Identify emerging risks and structural vulnerabilities, converting insights into decisive strategy, direction, and enterprise action
Lead cross-functional alignment and set clear direction, ensuring fraud strategy is embedded early and consistently across initiatives
Own problem framing and strategic path decisions, defining options and directing execution in partnership with analytics, technology, and operations
Drive enterprise-wide results by resolving gaps, conflicts, and overlaps, using data-driven insights to inform governance, investment, and measurable outcomes
Operating Discipline
Establish and enforce operating frameworks, decision models, and governance to drive consistent, scalable execution and accountability
Define and direct operating model design, including process flows, customer contact strategies, and staffing impacts, to ensure effective and scalable execution
Set standards for and own audit-ready documentation, program/project management methodologies, reporting, and success metrics, ensuring full traceability and executive visibility into decisions, outcomes, and tradeoffs
Industry Awareness & Strategic Insight
Lead enterprise awareness of emerging fraud threats, identity and authentication innovations, and market developments - anticipating risk and opportunity to shape forward-looking strategy
Translate external trends, technologies, and evolving typologies into decisive enterprise direction, control strategies, and investment priorities
Identify and challenge assumptions on emerging risk areas, applying innovative and creative problem-solving to design differentiated fraud strategies and solutions
Drive integration of industry insight into enterprise roadmaps, ensuring proactive adaptation of controls, capabilities, and strategic priorities
Key Responsibilities
Lead enterprise fraud strategy engagements, independently identifying, framing, and driving resolution of cross-functional risk issues and strategic priorities
Set direction by translating analytics, emerging threats, and partner input into clear, actionable enterprise strategy and prioritized decisions
Shape and influence business, product, digital, and operations leaders—embedding fraud strategy early and guiding tradeoffs, control design, and initiative direction
Establish and enforce disciplined approaches to issue framing, decision support, and governance, ensuring consistency, scalability, and audit-ready outcomes
Represent and advance fraud strategy in enterprise forums, driving alignment, elevating critical issues, and ensuring coordinated execution across initiatives
Required Skills / Capabilities
Deep domain expertise across fraud risk, controls, identity, authentication, and customer abuse, with the ability to anticipate emerging threats and implications
Exceptional strategic thinking and problem framing, translating complex risk dynamics into clear business direction, priorities, and executive decisions
Proven ability to influence senior stakeholders and drive alignment across business, product, technology, operations, and risk partners without direct authority
Strong executive communication skills, distilling complex topics into concise, actionable insights and recommendations
Demonstrated judgment in prioritization, escalation, and enterprise tradeoff management within complex, ambiguous environments
Basic Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree, or equivalent work experience
- Typically more than 10 years of applicable experience
Preferred Skills/Experience
Experience in enterprise fraud strategy, fraud consulting, fraud risk management, or cross-functional fraud leadership
Experience advising initiatives involving onboarding, account opening, authentication, servicing, identity, scams, or channel fraud mitigation
Experience preparing senior leadership recommendations, governance summaries, and executive-ready fraud narratives
Experience working in highly matrixed organizations where strategic influence is required across multiple stakeholder groups
Experience improving risk assessment, consultation, or strategic documentation frameworks
LOCATION EXPECTATIONS: This role requires working from a U.S. Bank Location three (3) or more days per week.
NOTE: This position is not eligible for current or future visa sponsorship.
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 law
Review 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.
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: $133,365.00 - $156,900.00
U.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.
