Strategy Analyst Jobs

About The Position

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.

Benefits

• Comprehensive health benefits and programs (medical, vision, dental, life insurance)
• 401(k)
• Employee discount
• Short term disability
• Long term disability
• Paid sick leave
• Paid national holidays
• Paid vacation