Director of Government Relations

Join Elliptic as the Director of Government Relations, where you'll leverage your extensive network in federal law enforcement to bridge public and private sectors in the cryptocurrency space. At Elliptic, we believe cryptocurrency will play a huge role in the future of value transfer, and we care deeply about helping to build this future. In order for cryptocurrency to flourish, it’s important to prevent criminal abuse of the technology. Elliptic is the global leader in detecting, preventing, and pursuing criminal activity in cryptocurrencies. Our clients include the world’s leading cryptocurrency exchanges, financial institutions and government agencies. Our unique platform gives us an unparalleled understanding of cryptocurrency capital flows, using a combination of network science and machine learning to aggregate and interpret vast quantities of transaction data. We provide anti-money laundering (AML) compliance software and investigative services to the leading participants in the cryptocurrency ecosystem. Customers rely on us to analyse more than $150bn of their transactions every month, and include cryptocurrency businesses, major financial institutions, and federal government agencies. The company has a presence in London, UK, New York City, Singapore and Tokyo. We are backed by SBI Group, Albion VC, Octopus Ventures, SignalFire, Paladin Capital, Santander InnoVentures, and Digital Currency Group.

• •Open and facilitate strategic engagement with key law enforcement, intelligence, defense and regulatory agencies and with financial-crimes experts across the private sector.
• •Serve as a senior advisor to agency leaders leveraging digital assets for operational missions and utilizing data to accomplish key initiatives.
• •Develop and maintain trusted relationships with senior agency leadership, industry experts, and legislative stakeholders.
• •Contribute to institutional positioning strategies that reinforce Elliptic's credibility with government partners.
• •Support product development strategy and roadmap execution, serving as an internal advocate for critical agency needs.
• •Partner with the Director of Strategic Engagement on account strategy for Tier 1 government relationships, ensuring relationship-building and mission delivery reinforce each other.

• •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.

• •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.