Director of Government Relations

Key Responsibilities

• 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 financial-crimes expertise.
• Serve as a bridge between Elliptic's public- and private-sector clients.
• Support Elliptic's commercial enterprise business as a trusted domain advisor.
• 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.
• Inform product strategy and go-to-market planning by bringing insights from agency leaders, operational users and market trends.

Requirements

• 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).
• Deep, active network of trusted senior relationships across the federal financial-crimes community (e.g., DOJ, FBI, Treasury/FinCEN, IC).
• 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.
• Strong understanding of digital assets, blockchain-intelligence data and operational use cases.
• Executive presence and cross-sector credibility.
• Comfort operating commercially to support revenue outcomes in both government and enterprise businesses.

Nice-to-Haves

• Digital assets exposure.
• Track record of putting network to work across the public/private divide.