Director of Government Relations

Director of Government Relations managing senior relationships across U.S. law enforcement and intelligence communities.

Posted 7/10/2026full-timeWashington • Washington • 🇺🇸 United StatesLeadWebsite

Key responsibilities & impact

Drive senior-level engagement strategies with key law enforcement, intelligence, defense and regulatory agencies.
Build relationships across both government and commercial clients and prospects, leveraging your financial-crimes expertise to provide subject-matter authority and credibility across Elliptic's client base.
Serve as a bridge between Elliptic's public- and private-sector clients — helping enterprise customers understand the government mission, and helping agencies understand what industry can deliver.
Support Elliptic's commercial enterprise business as a trusted domain advisor alongside our sales and GPRG teams.
Represent Elliptic in public policy dialogues, industry working groups, and engagements with agency leadership.
Act as a spokesperson and ambassador at industry forums, think tanks, and executive summits — reinforcing Elliptic's position as a thought leader in digital-asset intelligence.
Inform product strategy and go-to-market planning by bringing insights from agency leaders, operational users and market trends to internal cross-functional teams.

What you’ll need

10+ years of experience within the federal law enforcement, intelligence, defense or regulatory communities, with substantial time leading or supporting financial-crimes or financial-intelligence operations — digital-assets exposure strongly preferred.
A deep, active network of trusted senior relationships across the federal financial-crimes community (e.g., DOJ, FBI, Treasury/FinCEN, IC), and a track record of putting that network to work across the public/private divide.
Deep understanding of the operational mission needs of law enforcement, intelligence, defense and regulatory agencies, and of financial crime with a particular focus on digital assets.
Demonstrated public-affairs and communications acumen; comfortable representing organisations in press-sensitive, agency-facing, legislative and crisis-management contexts.
Strong understanding of digital assets, blockchain-intelligence data and operational use cases.
Executive presence and cross-sector credibility — equally at home advising an agency executive, supporting a commercial pursuit, and speaking on a conference stage.
Comfort operating commercially: this role supports revenue outcomes in both the government and enterprise businesses, and you should relish that rather than tolerate it.

Comp & perks

Hybrid working: The option to work from almost anywhere for up to 90 days per year.
Remote Work Budget: $650 budget to set up your home office space.
L&D Budget: $1,000 annual Learning & Development budget to use on anything (agreed with your manager) that contributes to your growth and development.
Holidays: 25 days of annual leave + US Public Holidays.
Birthday Leave: An extra day off for your birthday.
Enhanced Parental Leave: We provide eligible employees, regardless of gender or whether they become a parent by birth or adoption, 16 weeks fully-paid leave.
Healthcare: Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage through a range of providers (including Tufts, Kaiser, Aetna, UHC, and Blue Shield of CA) with generous premium contributions for you and your dependents.
401k: Company match included.
Mental Health: Full access to Spill mental health support.

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Hard Skills & Tools

Financial-Intelligence OperationsDigital-Asset IntelligenceBlockchain-Intelligence DataOperational Use CasesAgency Engagement Strategies

Soft Skills

Public SpeakingRelationship BuildingCrisis ManagementCommunications Acumen