Director, Financial Crime Industry Engagement - New York
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...