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# Senior Counsel, Risk at Brex

- **Company:** Brex
- **Location:** San Francisco California, United States
- **Posted:** 2026-09-22
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-25
- **Apply:** https://www.brex.com/careers/8834121002?gh_jid=8834121002

## Job description

## Why join us

Brex is the intelligent finance platform that enables companies to spend smarter and move faster in more than 200 markets. By combining global corporate cards and banking with intuitive spend management, bill pay, and travel software, Brex enables founders and finance teams to accelerate operations, gain real-time visibility, and control spend effortlessly. Brex’s AI-native automation and world-class service eliminate manual expense and accounting tasks for customers so they can focus on what matters most. Tens of thousands of the world's best companies run on Brex, including DoorDash, Coinbase, Robinhood, Zoom, Plaid, Reddit, and SeatGeek.

Working at Brex allows you to push your limits, challenge the status quo, and collaborate with some of the brightest minds in the industry. We’re committed to building a diverse team and inclusive culture and believe your potential should only be limited by how big you can dream. We make this a reality by empowering you with the tools, resources, and support you need to grow your career.

Legal at Brex

The Legal team helps the company grow responsibly, advocating for Brex and for the thousands of growing businesses we serve. We provide strategic advice and guidance to all Brex teams, protect Brex, advise on risk, and represent the company externally, negotiating with partners and interacting with regulators. Reimagining the financial system in a highly regulated environment requires creativity and resourcefulness, and we welcome the challenge.

Where you’ll work

This role will be based in our San Francisco office. We are a hybrid environment that combines the energy and connections of being in the office with the benefits and flexibility of working from home. We currently require a minimum of three coordinated days in the office per week, Monday, Wednesday and Thursday. As a perk, we also have up to four weeks per year of fully remote work!

## What you'll do

As Risk Counsel, you will own the legal response to the moments that matter most: disputes, incidents, collections, and regulatory inquiries. You will be the connective tissue between Legal, Compliance, Risk, Operations, and our product teams when things go wrong, and you will drive them to resolution. Specifically, you will:

- Manage pre-litigation matters end to end, including demand letters, disputes with customers, vendors, and counterparties, and early case assessment, working with outside counsel where escalation is warranted
- Lead the legal resolution of account and funds ownership disputes, including competing claims to accounts, deceased or dissolved account holders, business partner separations, and interpleader-adjacent scenarios
- Oversee the legal side of collections on delinquent commercial card and lending balances, including strategy for escalated accounts, engagement and management of collections agencies and outside counsel, and ensuring collections practices comply with applicable law and our bank partner requirements
- Manage bankruptcy matters involving Brex customers and counterparties, including proof of claim filings, automatic stay compliance, preference and clawback exposure, and coordinating recovery strategy in Chapter 7 and Chapter 11 proceedings
- Serve as legal lead on incidents across the company, from intake through root cause, coordinating cross-functional response and ensuring privilege is appropriately established and maintained
- Drive remediation programs arising from incidents, including scoping affected customer populations, structuring remediation approaches, and documenting completion
- Own legal review and strategy for customer outreach connected to incidents and remediations, including notification content, timing, and channel decisions
- Prepare and manage responses to regulatory inquiries, examinations, and information requests related to incidents, disputes, and remediation matters, in partnership with Compliance and our bank and broker-dealer partners
- Supervise responses to subpoenas, civil investigative demands, and other third-party legal process served on Brex, including intake, objections, negotiation of scope, coordination of document collection and production, and customer notice where required
- Build and improve playbooks, escalation frameworks, and reporting so the company handles recurring dispute, collections, and incident types consistently and quickly
- Advise product, operations, and support teams on reducing dispute and incident risk upstream

## Requirements

- Juris Doctor (JD) and active bar membership in good standing of at least one U.S. jurisdiction
- 6+ years of experience as an attorney, including at least 3 years focused on one or more of the following: litigation or commercial disputes, creditors’ rights or collections, bankruptcy, regulatory investigations or enforcement, or incident response
- Experience owning pre-litigation disputes end to end, including demand letters, early case assessment, and deciding when to bring in outside counsel
- Working knowledge of the regulatory landscape applicable to fintech, such as state money transmission, UDAAP, Reg E and Reg Z, BSA/AML, and bank partnership models
- Demonstrated ability to run a high-volume, high-stakes docket independently, with excellent judgment on what to resolve, what to escalate, and what to fight
- Strong drafting instincts for customer-facing and regulator-facing communications, where precision and tone both matter
- A calm, structured approach under pressure and a bias toward action and clear ownership
- Low ego, high accountability, and comfort operating cross-functionally with Compliance, Risk, Operations, and Engineering, Product & Design

## Nice to have

- 3+ years of experience as an in-house attorney at a fintech, bank, broker-dealer, or payments company
- Experience responding to bank regulatory examinations or inquiries, including from the OCC or the Federal Reserve
- Broker-dealer regulatory experience, such as responding to FINRA or SEC examinations and information requests, handling FINRA customer arbitrations and complaints, Rule 4530 reporting, or advising on SEC enforcement inquiries and subpoenas
- Experience managing collections agencies or recovery counsel, including recovery strategy in Chapter 7 and Chapter 11 proceedings
- Experience with account ownership and beneficiary dispute frameworks
- Experience managing subpoena and third-party legal process response, including under RFPA, GLBA, and similar financial privacy frameworks

## Compensation

The expected salary range for this role is $270,000 - $335,000 USD.  However, the starting base pay will depend on a number of factors, including the candidate’s location, skills, experience, market demands, and internal pay parity. Depending on the position offered, equity and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package.

Brex LLC is a wholly owned subsidiary of Capital One, N.A.

Please be aware, job-seekers may be at risk of targeting by malicious actors looking for personal data. Brex recruiters will only reach out via LinkedIn or email with a [brex.com](http://brex.com/) domain. Any outreach claiming to be from Brex via other sources should be ignored.

## About Brex

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Brex provides a modern finance platform combining corporate cards, expense management, travel booking, banking, and treasury services, all powered by AI-driven automation.
- **Entity Type**: Private (backed by venture capital; last known Series D3 at $12.3B valuation in 2022)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2017
- **Founders**: Henrique Dubugras and Pedro Franceschi

## Core Business
- Primary industry/industries: Financial technology (fintech) – specifically spend management, corporate cards, expense automation, and business banking.
- Target customers: B2B – startups, mid-size companies, and enterprises; over 35,000 companies use Brex.
- Mission/purpose statement: "Empower employees anywhere to make better financial decisions."

## Products & Services
- **Corporate Cards**: Physical and virtual corporate cards with built-in spend controls, real-time budgets, and cash back/rewards.
- **Expense Management**: AI-powered automation for receipts, expense reports, and approvals; integrates with ERP systems.
- **Travel**: In-app global travel booking and management with policy enforcement.
- **Bill Pay**: Automated invoice entry, approval workflows, and vendor payments.
- **Banking & Treasury**: Business cash accounts with up to 4.36% yield, same-day liquidity, and up to $6M in additional FDIC insurance.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: $12.3 billion (Series D3, 2022 – recent valuation not disclosed; may have changed)
- **Key Metric**: Over 35,000 businesses use Brex (source: brex.com). Total funding exceeds $1.5 billion (publicly reported, not detailed in provided sources).
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Greenoaks, IVP, Tiger Global, Y Combinator, Kleiner Perkins, DST Global, Max Levchin, Peter Thiel, Lone Pine Capital, Ribbit Capital.
- **Growth Signals**: Named #2 on Fast Company’s 2023 Top 50 Disruptors; expanding AI-driven finance automation; 756 hours average time saved per year for customers; 71% of expenses prepared on Brex handled entirely by automation.

## Competitive Advantages
- **All-in-one platform**: Combines cards, expense management, travel, bill pay, and banking in a single stack – reducing the need for multiple vendors.
- **AI-powered automation**: Uses AI to automate receipt capture, expense categorization, approval workflows, and GL coding, enabling faster close.
- **Higher credit limits**: Offers up to 30x higher credit limits compared to traditional providers.
- **Founder-centric culture**: Over 100 Brex alumni have started their own companies (4x industry average), signaling a culture that breeds entrepreneurship.

## Strategic Focus
- **AI-first finance**: Continually investing in AI to eliminate manual work (e.g., AI expense assistant, invoice automation).
- **Global expansion**: In-app global travel and multi-entity support for international teams.
- **Enterprise penetration**: Deepening ERP integrations, procurement flows, and vendor-specific card controls for mid-market and enterprise clients.
- **Cash management innovation**: Offering competitive treasury yields to attract and retain deposits.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Emphasizes “Be the founder of your career” – hires people with “grit, autonomy, and ambition” and supports rapid growth. Values include Growth Mindset, Ownership, Customer Obsession, and One Brex.
- **Remote-first**: Committed to remote-first work, with in-office days/offsets for connection and up to 4 fully remote weeks per year. Employees can optimize time and location.
- **Benefits**: Generous parental leave, Carrot Fertility, Milk Stork, medical/dental/vision, Spring Health (mental health), Calm app, generous vacation, and year-end company shutdown.
- **Headcount**: ~800 employees (Built In), 501–1,000 range (The Muse) with 7 offices globally.
- **Engineering focus**: Strong engineering culture visible through “Building Brex” blog and emphasis on automation and AI.

## Sources
1. [brex.com](https://www.brex.com/careers)
2. [brex.com](https://www.brex.com/about)
3. [brex.com](https://www.brex.com/index)
4. [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/brex/faq/workplace-perception)
5. [themuse.com](https://www.themuse.com/profiles/brex)

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