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About the Role
The Legal team at Brex helps the company grow responsibly by providing strategic advice, protecting the company, advising on risk, and representing Brex externally. This role will focus on managing legal responses to critical situations such as disputes, incidents, collections, and regulatory inquiries, acting as a liaison between Legal, Compliance, Risk, Operations, and product teams to drive resolutions.
Responsibilities
- Manage pre-litigation matters end to end, including demand letters, disputes with customers, vendors, and counterparties, and early case assessment.
- Lead the legal resolution of account and funds ownership disputes.
- Oversee the legal side of collections on delinquent commercial card and lending balances.
- Manage bankruptcy matters involving Brex customers and counterparties.
- Serve as legal lead on incidents across the company, from intake through root cause.
- Drive remediation programs arising from incidents.
- Own legal review and strategy for customer outreach connected to incidents and remediations.
- Prepare and manage responses to regulatory inquiries, examinations, and information requests.
- Supervise responses to subpoenas, civil investigative demands, and other third-party legal process served on Brex.
- Build and improve playbooks, escalation frameworks, and reporting for handling disputes, collections, and incidents.
- 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.
- Strong drafting instincts for customer-facing and regulator-facing communications.
- 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.
Skills
- Litigation
- Commercial disputes
- Creditors’ rights
- Collections
- Bankruptcy
- Regulatory investigations
- Enforcement
- Incident response
- Fintech regulatory landscape
- State money transmission
- UDAAP
- Reg E
- Reg Z
- BSA/AML
- Bank partnership models
- Drafting communications
- Cross-functional collaboration
Location
- San Francisco
Work Type
- Hybrid
- Remote
Experience Level
- 6+ years of experience as an attorney
- 3+ years focused on litigation or commercial disputes, creditors’ rights or collections, bankruptcy, regulatory investigations or enforcement, or incident response
Education Level
- Juris Doctor (JD)
- Active bar membership
Salary/Compensations
- $270,000 - $335,000 USD
Benefits
- Equity
- Other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package
About the Company
- 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.
- Brex LLC is a wholly owned subsidiary of Capital One, N.A.
Equal Opportunity
- 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.