# Counsel, Employment

**Company**: Brex
**Location**: New York, NY
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $220,000 - $270,000 USD
**Category**: Legal
**Industry**: Finance

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## Description

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.

As a Counsel, Employment, you will be a trusted legal partner to Brex's People team, providing practical, business-minded advice on employment matters affecting Brex's global workforce.

Responsibilities:

- Provide business-minded legal guidance and support to Brex's People team on day-to-day employment issues, including performance management, terminations, recruiting, hiring, leaves of absence, employee accommodations, compensation and benefits, and wage and hour matters

- Support the development and implementation of policies and practices governing Brex employees and contingent workers, in partnership with the People team and senior Legal team members

- Assist in managing employment-related complaints, disputes, litigation, investigations, and responses to regulatory inquiries and charges

- Help manage outside legal counsel retained to assist Brex on employment matters, ensuring their work is efficient and drives value for Brex

- Identify employment- and contingent worker-related risks and recommend practical solutions for managing and mitigating them

- Research and analyze employment-related laws that apply in the locations where Brex employees and contingent workers work, including throughout the United States and in Brex's international office locations, and monitor employment law developments and their potential impact on Brex

- Support the development and delivery of employment-related training to managers and employees

Requirements:

- 5+ years of experience counseling on employment law matters at a reputable law firm, an in-house or corporate legal department, or both

- Experience partnering directly with People / HR functions as their day-to-day legal advisor

- Strong organizational skills with the ability to handle multiple projects simultaneously and manage competing priorities

- Practical, problem-solving mindset with the ability to navigate a dynamic, fast-paced environment

- Team player who collaborates effectively with colleagues and business partners to drive meaningful results

- Exceptional oral and written communication skills, with the ability to translate legal complexity into clear guidance for non-lawyers

- Juris Doctor (JD) and active bar membership in good standing of the bar of at least one U.S. state

Compensation: The expected salary range for this role is $220,000 - $270,000 USD.

## Skills

### Required
- employment law
- litigation
- regulatory compliance
- contract management
- HR

### Nice to have
- California employment law
- financial services
- high-growth tech company experience

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