Technical Ex-Founder - London

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 Product team is at the core of Flagright’s innovation, building solutions that power real-time financial crime prevention. They turn complex customer needs into scalable, high-impact solutions that drive our mission forward.

We are hiring a Technical Ex-Founder to bring startup experience and technical leadership into our product team. You will combine hands-on work with strategic guidance, tackling Flagright’s most critical challenges while working closely with founders, engineers, and customers.

Technical Ex-Founders at Flagright are both strategic and execution-driven. You will focus on solving the hardest problems, improving product and operational excellence, and leveraging your experience to guide teams and accelerate innovation.

People who thrive at Flagright:

- Have been knocked down before and gotten back up

- Are resourceful—they figure things out with whatever tools are available

- Have strong opinions and can defend them

- Learn fast because they're hungry

- 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 or rejection

- Prefer consistent routine over fast-changing priorities

Key responsibilities:

- Lead complex enterprise sales cycles alongside our founding team — running technical discovery, solution design, and proof-of-concept engagements that convert to close...