Senior Counsel (Risk)

Join Brex, a fast-growing fintech company, as a Senior Counsel (Risk). In this role, you will be responsible for managing legal responses to disputes, incidents, collections, and regulatory inquiries. You will work closely with various teams within the company, including Legal, Compliance, Risk, Operations, and product teams. Your expertise in litigation, creditors' rights, bankruptcy, and regulatory investigations will be essential in driving resolution and ensuring compliance with applicable laws.

USD 270,000 - 335,000

Responsibilities

• Assurer la réponse juridique aux litiges, incidents, recouvrements et enquêtes réglementaires, en gérant les affaires précontentieuses de manière autonome.
• Diriger la résolution juridique des litiges liés à la propriété des comptes et des fonds, y compris les réclamations concurrentes et les séparations de partenaires commerciaux.
• Superviser les réponses aux enquêtes réglementaires, aux examens et aux demandes d'information liées aux incidents, aux litiges et aux questions de remédiation.
• Strong drafting instincts for customer-facing and regulator-facing communications, where precision and tone both matter
• 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

Requirements

• 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
• 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
• 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
• Low ego, high accountability, and comfort operating cross-functionally with Compliance, Risk, Operations, and Engineering, Product & Design
• Juris Doctor (JD) and active bar membership in good standing of at least one U.S. jurisdiction
• A calm, structured approach under pressure and a bias toward action and clear ownership
• 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
• Experience managing subpoena and third-party legal process response, including under RFPA, GLBA, and similar financial privacy frameworks

Preferred

• Experience with account ownership and beneficiary dispute frameworks
• Experience managing collections agencies or recovery counsel, including recovery strategy in Chapter 7 and Chapter 11 proceedings