Brex is revolutionizing financial services for businesses, starting with corporate cards for startups. We are building the product from first principles, enabling us to have unparalleled features and a seamless, modern experience for our customers. With backing from top venture firms and industry veterans such as Peter Thiel and Max Levchin, Brex is one of the fastest-growing startups to date, and we’re looking for someone to help scale the company with incredible people across the board.
Based in San Francisco, our team is committed to creating a driven and diverse company with ambitious people from wide-ranging backgrounds. We are looking for people with a strong sense for exceptional products, a keen eye to detail, and comfort learning new technologies. Most importantly, we’re looking for people who are enthusiastic about working with a variety of backgrounds, roles, and needs.
The Role
As the Head of Fraud Risk, you will lead Brex’s risk and fraud teams and be responsible for implementing a next-generation and highly scalable risk management platform. Your objective is to protect Brex, its partners and, most importantly, unlock trusted and reliable experiences for our customers across all Brex lines of business. In this role, you will partner with senior leadership and cross functional partners build a world-class risk management framework and brand at Brex.
Responsibilities
- Enhance Brex’s account, ATO and transaction risk systems to mitigate account and transaction fraud losses and keep Brex, our customers, and our partners safe
- Proactive fraud trend identification and new data source integrations to combat emerging trends
- Foster a risk-based approach within Brex and partner with Brex Card and Cash Product and Engineering to continually develop know-your-customer, anti-money laundering, and regulatory compliance programs
- Collaborate with Credit Risk, Enterprise Risk, Legal, Compliance and Security teams to build a comprehensive enterprise risk management plan and conduct a monthly Risk Review
- Stay abreast of external regulatory requirements and changes to network rules and relevant standards and maintain 3rd party engagement with risk service providers
- Perform sector analysis regularly in order to assess portfolio concentration or macro trends
- Scale a data driven, multi-functional Payments Risk team across multiple offices
What We Value
- 10+ years, including leadership experience, in payments risk management, transaction fraud and enterprise risk management in card and deposit lines of business
- Ability to take a hands-on approach to developing fraud modeling and monitoring across Brex’s products
- Prior history of engagement with 3rd party risk vendors required and direct experience with regulators preferred
- Deep understanding of corporate payments, financial services, and risk systems
- Proven cross-functional and interpersonal skills with a bias toward action and delivering results
- Bachelor's degree required (MBA preferred)