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.

What you'll do

You’re here to identify, assess and mitigate potential legal risks to Brex to drive risk-adjusted business outcomes while protecting Brex. You’ll manage global litigation and regulatory matters, providing subject matter expertise on disputes, from initial demand through final resolution, whether as a negotiated agreement, in arbitration, or in litigation. You’ll collaborate directly with stakeholders (including our People team, Compliance, Customer Support, Finance, Operations and Go-To-Market) to devise and implement policies for and creative solutions to address risk-related matters. You will regularly identify strategic opportunities to manage risk and protect the company’s brand over the long term rather than triaging dispute-by-dispute. Additionally, you will manage costs by knowing when to implement a solution in-house and when and how to strategically and cost-effectively deploy outside counsel.

Responsibilities

• Identify legal and regulatory risks facing the company and develop and implement strategies for mitigating those risks while successfully enabling the company’s business objectives
• Manage global litigation, pre-litigation disputes and regulatory investigations, advising senior leadership and cross-functional partners regarding an assessment of risk, financial impact and range of potential legal solutions
• Manage subpoena compliance and response, including enhancing compliance strategy for operational effectiveness
• Partner closely with Compliance and other departments to provide pragmatic and actionable advice, develop new policies, or implement strategic revisions to existing policies/procedures, as part of the company’s overall risk management
• Serve as the primary advisor for document retention policies, procedures and operation, including in-house e-discovery matters
• Manage the employment and immigration legal functions, ensuring critical legal support for our People team on employment law, compensation and benefits matters
• Advise the customer service organization and operational teams regarding customer escalations and customer disputes
• Monitor trends and legal developments, particularly those that impact the financial services, fintech and technology industries, analyze the implications for the company, and ensure the company is well-positioned to respond and react accordingly
• Acting as the primary legal liaison for all regulatory inquiries and investigations, as well as legal inquiries from customers, partners, insurance underwriters and the media

Requirements

• 10+ years working experience in a combination of law firms and in-house, with a preference for experience in a fintech company
• Deep experience in litigation and/or arbitration, including responsibility for independently managing complex disputes with customers, third parties, or others from commencement to resolution
• Substantial experience in regulations applicable to financial services, fintech or payments companies, including interactions with regulators
• Experience directly handling, or managing, employment law, immigration, compensation and benefits matters for a People or HR team in a global setting
• Experience managing outside counsel and exercising strong judgment for disputes not being resolved in-house
• Experience in supporting customer service or operations organizations
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, both internal (memos, guides, presentations) and external (counterparties, regulator communications)
• Ownership mentality and comfort working on complex matters that require judgment
• Entrepreneurial mindset and ability to work in a fast paced environment
• Willingness to be a team player that pitches in to help out on other products and topics; one of our key tenets is “One Brex”.
• Law degree and admitted to practice in at least one jurisdiction

Bonus Points

• Familiarity with corporate bankruptcy
• Experience supporting a customer service organization

Compensation

The expected salary range for this role is $304,000 - $380,000. 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.