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.
The roleThis is the second hire into our recruiting function. You'll partner directly with leadership to hire the people who build the product, manage our customers and drive our brand presence across target markets.
You'll own searches end to end — sourcing, screening, process design to closing. There is no separate sourcing team to hand work to, and no coordinator to schedule for you. In exchange, you get real ownership: you decide how a search runs, you talk to hiring managers directly, and you see the impact of your decisions within weeks rather than quarters.
If you want to be the recruiter who runs hiring rather than the one who administers someone else's process, this is the job.
What you'll do:
Own full-cycle hiring mainly focusing on engineering, product, design, and CS roles
Build and run outbound sourcing yourself. Most of our best hires are people who weren't looking
Partner with hiring managers on target profiles, search criteria, scorecards, interview design and calibration — and push back when a bar is unclear or a process could be improved
Keep candidates genuinely informed. Aim to provide an excellent candidate experience. Fast decisions, specific feedback, no ghosting
Own your pipeline data in Ashby and use it to argue for changes to how we hire
Contribute to the employer brand — how we talk about the concept of work, the team and the trade-offs
Help us hire globally across time zones and multiple offices.
Have been knocked down before and gotten back up
Are resourceful — figure it out with whatever tools exist
Have strong opinions, defend them, and drop them when proven wrong
Would rather own targets than a task list
Run toward ambiguity, not away from it
Want to work with no-BS people
Want 9-to-6 and a predictable week
Confuse ambitious goals with unreasonable ones
Need priorities to hold still for a quarter
Take blunt feedback or lost deals personally
Say — or think — "that's not my job"
Based in Singapore with right to work, this is a fully in-person role at our Singapore office
3+ years recruiting technical talent, with meaningful time in-house at a startup or scaleup
Demonstrable outbound sourcing ability. You can explain how you found and closed a hard hire, not just how you managed a pipeline someone else filled
Enough technical literacy to hold a credible conversation with a senior engineer about their work — and to tell the difference between a strong CV and a strong engineer
Comfort operating without much structure, and the instinct to build the structure that's missing
Direct communication. You raise problems early and disagree with hiring managers when the evidence supports it
Strong written and verbal English — a lot of this job is writing well to strangers and doing screening interviews
Bonus if you have:
Experience hiring in fintech, compliance, payments, crypto or other regulated/technical domains
Hired GTM profiles such as AEs, BDRs and marketing
Track record hiring across multiple countries, particularly the UK, US, Singapore and India
Familiarity with Ashby, or a genuine interest in recruiting automation and AI tooling
Equity from day 1 at a Y Combinator startup
Real ownership and interaction with founders
A product with clear, real-world differentiation in a market that is growing fast
Work alongside a highly competent, top-tier team, including professionals from Y Combinator, ex-AWS, and Palantir
Low-bureaucracy environment, minimal meetings, asynchronous communication culture
Skills Required
- Based in Singapore with the right to work in Singapore
- Work fully in person at the Singapore office
- 3+ years of experience recruiting technical talent
- Meaningful in-house recruiting experience at a startup or scaleup
- Demonstrable outbound sourcing ability, including finding and closing difficult hires
- Technical literacy sufficient to discuss engineering work with senior engineers and evaluate technical candidates
- Comfort operating with limited structure and building needed processes
- Direct communication and willingness to challenge hiring managers when supported by evidence
- Strong written and verbal English
- Experience hiring in fintech, compliance, payments, crypto, or other regulated technical domains
- Experience hiring go-to-market roles such as account executives, business development representatives, and marketing professionals
- Experience hiring across multiple countries, particularly the UK, US, Singapore, and India
- Familiarity with Ashby or strong interest in recruiting automation and AI tooling
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.
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