Brex is hiring a Senior Counsel, Risk in New York or California. This is full-time work at Brex's location. The advertised pay is $270,000 to $335,000 a year.
Brex describes the job as follows.
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 New York City 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 domain. Any outreach claiming to be from Brex via other sources should be ignored.
Questions about this job
How much does this Senior Counsel, Risk job pay?
Brex advertises $270,000 to $335,000 a year for this role.
Can I work remotely in this job?
No, it is an on-site job in New York or California.
What does Brex look for in candidates?
The posting mentions at least 6 years of relevant experience and skills such as Negotiation. Read the full description above for the complete list.
How do I apply?
Use the apply button on this page. It takes you to Brex's own application form, so your CV goes directly to their hiring team.
Is this job still open?
Brex published the role on September 22, 2026. We check the employer's job board every day and take this page down when the role closes, so if you can read it, the job was still listed at our last check.
Source: Brex careers page (www.brex.com). Applications go straight to the employer. We check the listing daily and remove it once it closes.
Required Skills
Negotiation
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