Senior Director, Associate General Counsel, Product & Regulatory (Remote)

Why join us

Brex is reimagining financial systems so every growing company can realize their full potential. As the financial OS, we’re building software and services in one place—disrupting long-entrenched institutions with products and experiences that better serve the ambitions of our customers.

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 responsibility, 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 and the software powering it in a highly regulated environment requires creativity and resourcefulness, and we welcome the challenge.

What you'll do

As Senior Director, Associate General Counsel, Product & Regulatory at Brex, you will lead the product and regulatory legal team, and own the strategic legal determinations and advice provided on legal and regulatory requirements through the product life cycle. You will serve as a proactive and business-oriented legal partner to senior business executives within product, engineering, marketing, sales and partnerships on a range of issues related to product development in the financial services and payments sector and develop pragmatic solutions and risk mitigation approaches that balance legal and business objectives within areas of regulatory ambiguity. 

Having experience scaling a product legal team function, you will be responsible for training, managing and developing lawyers into best-in-class product and regulatory counsel that provide front line legal support and guidance for product development and launches in domestic and international jurisdictions, ensuring legal expertise and ingenuity is applied toward operating within relevant regulatory frameworks.

Responsibilities 

• Primary responsibility for ensuring pragmatic, tactical and actionable advice on legal and regulatory requirements for financial products and software in key global markets, becoming an expert in Brex’s Empower platform, its financial products and services, data usage and security, operations, key partnerships and the laws and regulations that govern them in these markets
• Partner closely with Product, Engineering, and Go-To-Market leadership to identify and execute strategic opportunities for rapidly scaling Brex’s financial product and service offerings and features, including supporting the legal needs for Brex’s international efforts
• Proactively monitor, understand and advise on relevant regulations, regulatory actions and industry practices to provide best-in-class legal advice to facilitate launching compliant product offerings both domestically and abroad
• Draft customer agreements and terms and work closely with teams across the company to develop customer experiences and identify and resolve issues relating to Brex’s product offerings
• Advise on issues related to the SaaS product lifecycle and data protection as related to Brex’s products and services
• Structure, draft, and negotiate agreements with financial institutions and technology providers to support our products and services
• Provide guidance for strategic decisions and risk, including those relating to product structuring and implementation
• Partner closely with the Compliance team to develop and implement scalable processes to address legal and regulatory risks
• Partner with and supervise outside legal vendors who are engaged to assist in the provision of legal advice and services
• Manage other product and regulatory lawyers and legal professionals with a focus on ensuring the provision of best-in-class legal support across Brex and the team’s growth and development

Requirements 

• 12+ years combined legal experience, including in-house experience at a fintech or financial services company (high growth environment preferred) working with complex federal, state and international regulatory frameworks
• Experience managing and developing a high-performing team of product counseling attorneys
• Deep knowledge of US laws and regulations applicable to a variety of financial services products and services with a strong familiarity with payments, lending and/or card products
• Demonstrated experien