Lead Investigator & Tech Strategy Director

NAXO; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

NAXO is a technical investigations firm working across blockchain, cybersecurity, and the dark web in support of litigation teams, large organizations, and law enforcement. We are seeking an investigations manager to direct complex matters and lead technical teams toward clear, defensible findings.

You must understand unfamiliar technologies well enough to ask the right questions, translate investigative or legal objectives into technical work, and judge whether that work advances the

Qualifications

• Excellent communication and leadership skills.
• Experience leading complex technical investigations in government, litigation, cybersecurity, digital forensics, consulting, law enforcement, or related work.
• Technical fluency and ability to learn new technologies; engineering background nice-to-have but not required.
• Ability to translate broad questions into investigative plans and concrete steps.
• Strong analytical and critical thinking to synthesize information from multiple sources.

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 to do so.

Skills

Technical leadership

Clear communication

Analytical thinking

Investigation management

Stakeholder management

Python

Blockchain analytics

Tools

Forensic tools

Blockchain analytics

SQL

Job description

NAXO is a technical investigations firm working across blockchain, cybersecurity, and the dark web in support of litigation teams, large organizations, and law enforcement. We are seeking an investigations manager to direct complex matters and lead technical teams toward clear, defensible findings.

You must understand unfamiliar technologies well enough to ask the right questions, translate investigative or legal objectives into technical work, and judge whether that work advances the