Senior Manager, Digital Fraud & Abuse

GEICO GEICO · Insurance · Bethesda, MD +3

This role leads a new enterprise capability focused on digital fraud and customer account abuse prevention. It involves owning the end-to-end customer abuse lifecycle, driving programmatic defense, and influencing product/platform evolution to eliminate structural conditions that enable fraud. The role operates horizontally across various departments to harden systems and translate learnings into preventive controls.

What you'd actually do

  1. Stand up and lead GEICO’s Digital Fraud & Abuse function
  2. Own the customer abuse lifecycle and control effectiveness enterprise‑wide
  3. Drive authentication, risk, and platform evolution to prevent account abuse
  4. Reduce fraud and customer harm through structural, programmatic defense

Skills

Required

  • 10+ years in digital fraud, abuse prevention, identity risk, or adjacent domains
  • Direct experience owning fraud or abuse programs end‑to‑end (beyond operations)
  • Strong understanding of account takeover, social engineering, and authentication risk
  • Proven ability to drive change through influence in large, matrixed organizations
  • Experience partnering closely with product and engineering teams on platform evolution

Nice to have

  • Experience building programmatic fraud prevention capabilities
  • Insurance, fintech, or large‑scale consumer digital platform experience
  • Familiarity with adaptive authentication, device intelligence, and risk engines
  • Certifications such as CFE, CAMS, or equivalent
  • Experience translating fraud learnings into durable product and platform controls

What the JD emphasized

  • owning customer digital abuse risk across GEICO
  • owning programmatic defense
  • owning the customer abuse lifecycle end to end
  • owning the customer digital abuse lifecycle end-to-end
  • accountable owner for understanding _how_ and _why_ abuse occurs
  • Drive development of external fraud signal analysis
  • Identify and eliminate structural conditions across products and platforms that enable repeatable or automated attacks
  • Drive disparate teams across GEICO to harden systems, workflows, and processes against fraud and abuse
  • Direct experience owning fraud or abuse programs end‑to‑end (beyond operations)