Director, Financial Crime Industry Engagement

Flagright

Director leading financial crime industry engagement at Flagright. Building relationships and representing the company across key market conversations and events.

Posted 5/18/2026full-timeRemote • New York • 🇺🇸 United StatesLeadWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

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

Requirements

What you’ll need

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 (visa sponsorship not available)
Willing and able to travel up to 30% of the time

Benefits

Comp & perks

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

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Hard Skills & Tools

AMLfinancial crimefraudsanctionscomplianceregulatory developmentsfinancial services risk

Soft Skills

communicationrelationship-buildinginterpersonal skillspublic speakingcuriositypersonabilitynetworkingmoderationjudgmentprofessionalism