Lead Cybersecurity Analyst - Payment Fraud Strategy

Target•Brooklyn Park, MN

23h•$115,000 - $206,000•Hybrid

About The Position

This role owns the strategic direction for the Payment Fraud Strategy Area, helping Target maintain a future ready payment fraud defense that enables omni channel growth, protects guest trust, and supports smart fraud investment decisions. This role is responsible for setting strategy, aligning partners, connecting work to measurable outcomes, identifying risks and gaps, and ensuring Theft, Fraud & Abuse delivers measurable payment fraud results for the business.

Requirements

4 year degree or equivalent experience
7 plus years of experience in cybersecurity, fraud strategy, payment fraud, financial crimes, risk management, product risk, or a related field
Demonstrated understanding of fraud threats, payment ecosystems, chargebacks, digital fraud, identity fraud, account takeover, scams, card fraud, or cross channel fraud patterns
Experience developing strategy, aligning and influencing partners/roadmaps and connecting enterprise work to measurable outcomes
Ability to analyze fraud trends, performance metrics, control effectiveness, and operational outcomes to influence decisions
Experience partnering with cross functional teams such as Cybersecurity, AI, Data Sciences, Product, Tech, Finance, Operations, Legal, Compliance, or external vendors
Strong communication, storytelling, written, verbal and presentation skills
Ability to lead down, across, and up to persuade, negotiate and drive desired outcomes
Strong problem solving skills, sound judgment and ability to navigate ambiguity
Ability to build trust with business partners while challenging assumptions and escalating risk when needed

Responsibilities

Own and evolve the Payment Fraud Strategy Area, including the vision, strategic priorities, roadmap, OKRs, operating rhythms, and executive level narrative
Partner with execution owning teams to ensure fraud work across Target.com, stores, Circle Card, and emerging payment experiences is aligned to the enterprise fraud strategy and measurable business outcomes
Translate fraud trends, business priorities, guest experience considerations, and risk signals into clear strategic direction for partners and leaders
Create visibility into progress against payment fraud outcomes, including fraud dollars as a percentage of sales, fraud prevented, manual review effectiveness, model performance, and false positive reduction
Identify strategic gaps, risks, dependencies, duplicative efforts, and investment needs across the payment fraud ecosystem
Align cross functional partners across Cybersecurity, Payment Operations, Product, Technology, Data Science, Finance, Stores, Digital, Legal, Compliance, and vendor teams
Shape roadmap priorities and modernization decisions by connecting fraud trends, business outcomes, partner work, and investment needs into a clear strategic direction
Support executive communication by clearly articulating strategy, progress, tradeoffs, risks, and recommendations
Ensure payment fraud strategy supports secure business growth, low friction guest experiences, profitable sales, and protection of guest trust
Maintain a forward looking view of emerging payment fraud risks, including account takeover, synthetic identity, real time payments and refunds, cross channel fraud, scams, agentic commerce, and new payment experiences
Partner with owning teams on fraud capability evaluations, proof of concept learnings, data opportunities, and modernization themes to ensure they ladder back to enterprise strategy
Build trusted relationships with business and technology partners, helping teams understand fraud risk, make informed tradeoffs, and stay aligned to Target’s broader payment fraud objectives