About Flagright:
Flagright is an AI operating system for financial crime compliance used globally by Fortune 500 companies, large banks, fintechs, and fast growing startups. Flagright enables real-time risk detection, automated investigations, and intelligent decisioning, helping compliance teams operate at their full potential in the fight against financial crime.
We operate as a lean, high-performance team with high individual ownership and direct access to leadership.
Role overview:
We are hiring a Director of Financial Crime Industry Engagement to strengthen Flagright’s presence and credibility across the global financial crime compliance ecosystem. You will lead our industry engagement efforts, represent Flagright in key market conversations, and build meaningful relationships with senior practitioners, regulators, investigators, fintech leaders, and industry communities.
You will work closely with internal and external stakeholders to identify emerging financial crime trends, regulatory developments, operational challenges, and practitioner priorities across financial institutions and fintechs. You will translate these insights into strategic industry engagement opportunities, contribute expert perspective to thought leadership initiatives, and help ensure Flagright maintains strong market relevance, credibility, and visibility across key regions and audiences.
People who thrive at Flagright:
Have been knocked down before and gotten back up
Are resourceful—they figure things out with whatever tools are available
Have strong opinions and can defend them
Learn fast because they're hungry
Want to work with no-BS people building something important
People who struggle here:
Need extensive hand-holding
View high expectations as “unreasonable”
Actually prioritize work-life balance
Can’t handle ambiguity or rejection
Prefer consistent routine over fast-changing priorities
Key responsibilities:
Represent Flagright at industry events, panels, webinars, roundtables, and community forums
Build and maintain relationships with senior financial crime, AML, fraud, sanctions, compliance, regulatory, investigative, and fintech leaders
Help shape Flagright’s community and industry engagement strategy in the US
Partner with regional Event Leads / Field Marketing Managers to define event themes, speaker strategy, audience quality, and discussion formats
Serve as a credible moderator, panelist, host, or Flagright representative where senior domain expertise is required
Identify emerging financial crime themes, regulatory discussions, operational pain points, and practitioner concerns that should inform Flagright’s market positioning
Collaborate with the Director of Research & Insights to provide expert input, quotes, validation, and practitioner perspective for reports and thought leadership
Support the development of high-quality industry conversations, including executive roundtables, invite-only dinners, panels, fireside chats, and practitioner briefings
Help Flagright build relationships with relevant associations, communities, NGOs, former regulators, investigators, fintech compliance leaders, and banking practitioners
Provide internal perspective to Sales, Product, and Marketing on financial crime trends, buyer concerns, and market credibility gaps
Who we are looking for:
Strong working knowledge of AML, financial crime, fraud, sanctions, compliance, regulatory developments, and financial services risk landscapes
Experience engaging with financial crime practitioners, compliance leaders, regulators, investigators, fintech operators, or banking stakeholders
Strong communication, relationship-building, and interpersonal skills, with the ability to confidently engage senior audiences and foster meaningful industry connections
Strong public speaking ability and comfortable representing a company externally at conferences, panels, roundtables, webinars, executive dinners, and industry forums
Naturally curious, highly personable, and energized by building communities, facilitating conversations, and creating strong professional networks across the industry
Ability to translate industry conversations, pain points, and market developments into valuable strategic insights and market positioning opportunities
Excellent verbal communication and moderation skills, with the ability to lead thoughtful discussions and serve as a credible industry representative
Comfortable working cross-functionally with internal and external stakeholders
Self-directed, proactive, and able to independently drive initiatives, relationships, and engagement opportunities from concept to execution
Strong judgment, professionalism, and credibility when engaging with senior industry stakeholders and external communities
Based in New York with right to work in the USA (relocation support and visa sponsorship is not provided)
Willing and able to travel up to 30% of the time
Preferred experience
Deep subject matter credibility in AML, fraud, sanctions, investigations, financial crime compliance, or regulatory enforcement
Former regulator, investigator, senior bank/fintech financial crime leader, Head of Compliance, FIU/law enforcement professional, or senior financial crime advisor
Existing network across financial crime, compliance, fintech, banking, regulatory, investigative, or industry communities
What we offer:
Direct exposure to leadership and direct influence on Flagright’s publications
Product with clear, real-world differentiation
High-bar environment focused on execution, learning, and continuous improvement
Employee health insurance
Get equity from day 1 at a Y Combinator startup
Work alongside a highly competent, top-tier team, including professionals from Y Combinator, ex AWS, and Palantir
Enjoy a low-bureaucracy environment, minimal meetings, and an asynchronous communications culture