Director, Financial Crime Industry Engagement - New York

Flagright Inc.

Job Overview

Location

New York, USA

Job Type

Full-time

Full Job Description

📋 Description

• Represent Flagright at industry events, panels, webinars, roundtables, and community forums focused on financial crime compliance, AML, fraud, sanctions, and regulatory developments.
• Build and maintain strategic relationships with senior practitioners including compliance leaders, regulators, investigators, fintech operators, and banking stakeholders across the U.S. and globally.
• Shape and execute Flagright’s industry engagement strategy in the U.S., aligning with regional Event Leads and Field Marketing Managers to define event themes, speaker selection, audience targeting, and discussion formats.
• Serve as a credible moderator, panelist, or host at high-profile industry events, executive roundtables, invite-only dinners, fireside chats, and practitioner briefings, delivering expert perspective on financial crime trends.
• Identify emerging financial crime themes, regulatory shifts, operational pain points, and practitioner concerns that inform Flagright’s market positioning and product strategy.
• Collaborate with the Director of Research & Insights to provide expert input, verified quotes, and real-world context for thought leadership reports, whitepapers, and industry publications.
• Help Flagright establish and grow partnerships with relevant associations, NGOs, former regulators, law enforcement professionals, fintech compliance leaders, and banking industry networks.
• Translate insights from industry conversations into strategic recommendations for Sales, Product, and Marketing teams regarding buyer concerns, market credibility gaps, and competitive dynamics.
• Act as a trusted external voice for Flagright, enhancing the company’s credibility, visibility, and influence across the global financial crime compliance ecosystem.
• Drive initiatives independently to develop new engagement opportunities, including executive-level forums and practitioner-focused discussions, with minimal supervision.
• Maintain a strong professional presence in key financial crime and compliance communities, leveraging personal credibility and deep domain expertise to expand Flagright’s reach.
• Travel up to 30% of the time to attend industry events, client meetings, and strategic engagements across the U.S. and internationally.
• Work closely with cross-functional teams including Sales, Product, and Marketing to ensure external messaging aligns with internal product capabilities and customer feedback.
• Operate in a high-autonomy, low-bureaucracy environment with direct access to leadership and influence over company direction and publications.
• Contribute to a culture of execution, continuous learning, and intellectual rigor, working alongside top-tier professionals from Y Combinator, AWS, and Palantir.
• Engage with stakeholders at the highest levels — regulators, former FIU leads, senior compliance officers, and fintech founders — with professionalism, judgment, and authenticity.
• Adapt quickly to evolving financial crime trends, regulatory landscapes, and market demands, maintaining Flagright’s relevance and thought leadership in a fast-moving industry.
• Advocate for Flagright’s AI operating system as a critical tool for compliance teams facing complex financial crime challenges in real time.
• Reject routine and ambiguity aversion; thrive in environments with fast-changing priorities and high expectations.

🎯 Requirements

• 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 ability to confidently engage senior audiences
• Strong public speaking ability and comfort representing a company externally at conferences, panels, roundtables, and executive dinners
• Based in New York with right to work in the USA (no visa sponsorship available)
• Willing and able to travel up to 30% of the time

🏖️ Benefits

• Direct exposure to leadership and direct influence on Flagright’s publications
• Equity from day 1 at a Y Combinator startup
• Employee health insurance
• Work alongside a highly competent, top-tier team including professionals from Y Combinator, ex AWS, and Palantir
• Low-bureaucracy environment with minimal meetings and asynchronous communication
• Product with clear, real-world differentiation and high market impact

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About Flagright Inc.

Flagright provides AI-powered anti-money laundering and fraud prevention software for fintechs and banks. Its platform offers real-time transaction monitoring, sanctions screening, case management, and regulatory reporting through a no-code interface, enabling compliance teams to detect and investigate suspicious activity efficiently. The company serves neobanks, crypto exchanges, and payment providers globally, helping them meet AML, CFT, and KYC regulations while reducing false positives and operational overhead.

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