Managing Director - Investigations

NAXO; New York (NY); Remote; USD 200,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

NAXO is a blockchain investigations and digital forensics firm trusted by top law firms, corporations, and law enforcement agencies for technically complex cases. We seek an investigations manager to direct complex matters and lead technical teams toward clear, defensible findings.

You will translate objectives into technical scopes, own the direction of investigations, and ensure efficient work. The role invites technologists, investigators, attorneys, or former prosecutors who can manage

Qualifications

• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal.
• Strong analytical and critical thinking; synthesize information from multiple sources.
• Experience translating broad questions into investigative plans.
• Ability to work with technical specialists and judge when to defer to expertise.
• Organizational skills to keep workstreams focused on a common objective.
• Sound judgment with confidential information and sensitive materials.

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

Excellent communication

Leadership experience

Analytical thinking

Ability to learn new technologies

Education

Engineering background (nice-to-have)

Tools

Python

SQL

Forensic tools

Blockchain analytics

Job description

NAXO is an blockchain investigations and digital forensics firm trusted by top law firms, corporations, and law enforcement agencies for their most technically complex cases. Our experts have distinguished law enforcement backgrounds, deep technical expertise, and a track record of investigating the most complex crypto and cyber matters since the advent of blockchain technology. The nature of our work ranges from analyzing complex blockchain transaction activity and its underlying technology to investigating criminal activity on the dark web.

About the Role

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.

This role requires technical fluency, but not necessarily a technical background. The ideal candidate may be a technologist, investigator, attorney, or former prosecutor with experience leading complex technical investigations.

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 investigation. You will own the substance and direction of investigations, from challenging assumptions and shaping work product, to ensuring the right work is being done efficiently.

What You Will Do

• 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.

Requirements

• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal.
• Experience leading complex technical investigations in government, litigation, cybersecurity, digital forensics, consulting, law enforcement, intelligence, or related work.
• Technical fluency: the ability to learn unfamiliar technologies, challenge assumptions, and evaluate conclusions. An engineering background is nice-to-have, but not required.
• Ability to work with technical specialists, knowing when to defer to expertise and when to push back.
• Strong analytical and critical thinking skills, with 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.

Preferred Experience

• Cybercrime investigations, including incident response, threat intelligence, network analysis, and security engineering.
• Digital forensics involving computers, mobile devices, cloud platforms, networks, source code, or other digital evidence.
• Dark web investigations, anonymous communications, open-source intelligence, financial investigations, or complex fraud.
• Blockchain analysis, cryptocurrency tracing, attribution, asset tracing, smart contracts, or use of blockchain analytics platforms.
• Working directly with federal, state, or local law enforcement.
• 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.

NAXO is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any other protected characteristic under applicable law.

The pay range for this role is:

200,000 - 300,000 USD per year (NAXO NY)

175,000 - 250,000 USD per year (Remote (United States))