Managing Director - Investigations

NAXO • New York, NY

10h • $200,000 - $300,000

About The Position

NAXO is a technical investigations firm working across blockchain, cybersecurity, and the dark web in support of litigation teams, large organizations, and law enforcement. The Managing Director directs complex investigations and leads technical teams toward clear, defensible findings. The role calls for technical fluency, but not necessarily a technical background; suitable candidates may be technologists, investigators, attorneys, or former prosecutors with experience leading complex technical investigations.

The position owns the substance and direction of investigations, including challenging assumptions, shaping work product, and ensuring the right work is performed efficiently. The Managing Director must understand unfamiliar technologies well enough to ask relevant questions, translate investigative or legal objectives into technical work, and assess whether that work advances the investigation.

Requirements

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Experience leading complex technical investigations in government, litigation, cybersecurity, digital forensics, consulting, law enforcement, intelligence, or related work.
• Technical fluency, including the ability to learn unfamiliar technologies, challenge assumptions, and evaluate conclusions.
• Ability to work with technical specialists, knowing when to defer to expertise and when to push back.
• Strong analytical and critical-thinking skills, including the ability to synthesize complex information from multiple sources.
• Experience translating broad questions into investigative plans and concrete steps.
• Organizational skills to keep specialists and workstreams focused on a common objective.
• Sound judgment with confidential information, privileged materials, evidence, and sensitive legal or reputational matters.

Nice To Haves

• An engineering background.
• Experience in cybercrime investigations, including incident response, threat intelligence, network analysis, and security engineering.
• Digital forensics experience involving computers, mobile devices, cloud platforms, networks, source code, or other digital evidence.
• Experience with dark web investigations, anonymous communications, open-source intelligence, financial investigations, or complex fraud.
• Experience with blockchain analysis, cryptocurrency tracing, attribution, asset tracing, smart contracts, or blockchain analytics platforms.
• Experience working directly with federal, state, or local law enforcement.
• Experience assessing expert work, preparing experts for testimony, or examining technical witnesses.
• Hands-on skills in Python, SQL, data analysis, forensic tools, blockchain analytics, or related areas.

Responsibilities

• Manage complex investigations and litigation-support matters from inbound leads through reporting findings.
• Translate investigative, legal, and evidentiary objectives into clear technical scopes and deliverables.
• Direct technologists, blockchain analysts, forensic examiners, and other specialists to achieve investigative objectives.
• Manage scope, staffing, priorities, deadlines, budgets, documentation, and client expectations.
• Test investigative hypotheses, identify evidentiary gaps and competing explanations, and change direction when warranted.
• Explain complex findings clearly to attorneys, investigators, executives, courts, and other non-technical audiences.
• Ensure methods and conclusions are documented and can withstand adversarial scrutiny.
• Perform hands-on investigative or technical analysis where qualified.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director
• Education Level: No Education Listed