Senior Counsel, Risk

Brex•New York, NY

11d•$270,000 - $335,000•Hybrid

About The Position

Brex is seeking a Senior Counsel, Risk to join their Legal team. This role will be based in the New York City office, operating in a hybrid environment with a minimum of three in-office days per week (Monday, Wednesday, and Thursday), and up to four weeks of fully remote work per year. The Legal team at Brex is responsible for helping the company grow responsibly, providing strategic advice, protecting the company, advising on risk, and representing the company externally. This role specifically focuses on managing legal responses to critical situations such as disputes, incidents, collections, and regulatory inquiries, acting as a liaison between various departments to drive resolutions.

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 Haves

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.

Responsibilities

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.