About Flagright:
Flagright is an AI operating system for financial crime compliance used globally by Fortune 500 companies, large banks, fintechs, and fast growing startups. Flagright enables real-time risk detection, automated investigations, and intelligent decisioning, helping compliance teams operate at their full potential in the fight against financial crime.
We operate as a lean, high-performance team with high individual ownership and direct access to leadership.
Role overview:
Our Recruitment team drives the growth and success of Flagright. We are looking for a Founding Recruiter who can attract world-class talent, scale high-performing teams, and act as a player/coach to mentor and lead the recruitment function.
As the Founding Recruiter, you will establish our hiring foundations and engage top talent through outbound outreach and targeted headhunting.
You will own hiring end-to-end from sourcing to offer, ensuring excellent candidate experience across multiple jurisdictions. You will also coach and grow the recruitment team, setting high standards for processes, candidate experience, and hiring outcomes. This role suits someone who thrives in a fast-paced environment, values precision, and takes pride in building high-performing teams.
People who thrive at Flagright:
Take ownership and operate with urgency
Are resourceful and solution-oriented
Learn quickly and adapt to changing priorities
Have strong opinions and can defend them
Want to work with no-BS people building something important
People who struggle here:
Need extensive hand-holding
View high expectations as “unreasonable”
Actually prioritize work-life balance
Can’t handle ambiguity
Prefer consistent routine over fast-changing priorities
Key responsibilities:
Recruitment Leadership & Talent Acquisition
Lead recruitment efforts to attract world-class talent across multiple functions
Execute full-cycle hiring while also coaching and mentoring the recruitment team
Partner with the leadership team to define role requirements and strategic hiring plans
Source, engage, and assess top-tier candidates to meet hiring goals
Maintain candidate pipelines, track hiring metrics, and optimize recruitment processes
Ensure an exceptional candidate experience throughout the hiring journey
Who we are looking for:
5+ years of recruitment experience, with prior leadership and mentoring experience
Experience hiring GTM & sales talent (AEs, BDRs, etc.)
Experience working in organizations with merit-based hiring practices
Experience and proactive in using AI tools to automate workflows and operate at a high level of efficiency
Proven ability to attract world-class talent in a fast-paced, high-growth environment
Strong understanding of full-cycle recruitment
Highly organized, detail-oriented, and trusted with confidential information
Clear communicator who can manage multiple priorities independently
Comfortable with ATS platforms, and recruitment analytics
Based in Salt Lake City with right to work in the USA (visa sponsorship not available)
Preferred skills
Experience with Ashby
Experience in startups, fintech, or fast-scaling organizations
Experience hiring technical talent (Software engineers, Creative Designer, etc.)
Experience hiring leadership talent (Sr AE, Head of Sales, etc.)
In-house recruitment experience preferred over consulting companies/agencies
Global hiring experience
Ability to manage and scale distributed or multi-location teams
Analytical mindset for recruitment metrics
What we offer:
Leadership position with direct impact on how Flagright hires and scales globally
Reports directly to the CEO
High-bar environment focused on execution, learning, and continuous improvement
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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What We Do
Flagright sets the modern standard for AI-native transaction monitoring. The platform enables financial institutions to centralize detection, investigation, and reporting of suspicious activity, streamlining regulatory workflows and strengthening financial crime controls. A high-performance, no-code scenario builder with sub-second API response times powers real-time monitoring, supported by tailored rules, dynamic risk profiling, and simulation tools that reduce false positives and improve decision accuracy. This transaction monitoring foundation is enhanced by fully integrated AML screening that links each transaction and entity to global sanctions and watchlists; dynamic risk scoring that embeds behavioural and contextual risk directly into detection logic; and centralized case management that automates alert triage, investigation workflows, and SAR filing, maintaining audit-readiness across jurisdictions. Flagright’s AI Forensics suite strengthens compliance operations across four critical areas: screening (reduces false positives in AML checks), monitoring (augments alert investigation capabilities), quality assurance (accelerates QA processes), and governance (simplifies policy management and regulatory compliance). Financial institutions moving from fragmented tools to Flagright report a 93% reduction in false positives, 80% lower compliance costs, and a 27% drop in operational errors, with implementation typically completed within weeks. With customers across six continents and offices in the United States, the United Kingdom, Singapore, and Germany, Flagright delivers a transaction monitoring solution that scales with growth and adapts to evolving threats.
