Fraud Strategy Associate

Why join us

• 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.
• Brex's AI-native automation and world-class service eliminate manual expense and accounting tasks for customers so they can focus on what matters most.
• Tens of thousands of the world's best companies run on Brex, including DoorDash, Coinbase, Robinhood, Zoom, Plaid, Reddit, and SeatGeek.
• 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.

Operations at Brex

• Operations is the backbone of Brex's mission to power businesses through our Intelligent Finance Platform.
• We own credit, fraud, money movement, and payments, protecting our customers and our company.
• From product operations that ensure flawless launches to scalable systems that drive innovation and precision, we operate at the intersection of product, design, engineering, and customer success.
• If you want to work at the heart of the business, Operations is where you belong.

What you'll do

• As a Fraud Strategy Associate, you'll own the end-to-end integrity of Brex's fraud and risk ecosystem across credit, deposit, and card payment rails.
• You'll find patterns, trace root causes, and build the detection logic, automations, and reporting that keep fraud in check without adding friction for customers.
• You'll design your own solutions, see fraud across every product vertical, and partner with Risk, Data Science, Engineering, and Product to build prevention into the product itself.

Where you'll work

• This role will be based in our Seattle office.
• We are a hybrid environment that combines the energy and connections of being in the office with the benefits and flexibility of working from home.
• We currently require a minimum of three coordinated days in the office per week, Monday, Wednesday and Thursday.
• As a perk, we also have up to four weeks per year of fully remote work!

Responsibilities

Strategic Analysis & Detection

• Data Mining: Use SQL and Python to mine large-scale data, and apply LLM-based tools to detect and automate the identification of fraudulent patterns across credit, deposit, and card payment rails.
• Vendor and Rule Optimization: Design and refine automated detection logic to proactively mitigate risk while maintaining a frictionless experience for legitimate customers.
• Emerging Threat Intelligence: Stay ahead of industry trends and regulatory shifts to rapidly deploy new defensive strategies against novel fraud vectors.

Operational Excellence & Process Ownership

• Workflow Architecture: optimize the internal processes for fraud investigations, ensuring operational discipline, case visibility, and high-fidelity documentation.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Serve as the strategic bridge between Risk Leadership, Analytics, Data Science, Engineering, and Product teams to integrate fraud-prevention infrastructure into the core product lifecycle.
• Tooling & Infrastructure: Define and manage the technical

requirements

for internal AI-driven tools and third-party risk-reduction platforms.

Metrics, Reporting & Performance

• KPI Management : Define and monitor key performance indicators (KPIs) such as false positive rates, fraud capture rates, and operational turnaround times.
• Executive Dashboards : Build and maintain scalable reporting suites to provide real-time visibility into fraud exposure and program effectiveness for senior stakeholders.
• Impact Assessment : Conduct deep-dive post-mortems on fraud incidents to quantify financial impact and recommend structural process improvements.

Requirements

• Industry Experience: 3+ years of experience in fraud strategy, risk operations, or data-driven business operations within a financial services or high-growth fintech environment.
• Technical Mastery: Capable with SQL and/or Python for data wrangling, statistical modeling, and automation.
• Operational Mindset: Proven ability to build scalable processes and manage complex projects from data exploration through to operational rollout.
• Communication: Exceptional ability to synthesize complex analytical findings into clear, executive-level strategic narratives.

Bonus Points

• Advanced Certification: Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE) designation.
• Experience with Snowflake, Salesforce, and data visualization platforms like Hex.
• Experience managing fraud risk and operational workflows for products spanning multiple geographic jurisdictions.
• Experience utilizing AI tools to enhance internal operational efficiency.

Compensation

• The expected salary range for this role is $111,197 - $138,996.
• 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.
• Brex LLC is a wholly owned subsidiary of Capital One, N.A.

Please be aware, job-seekers may be at risk of targeting by malicious actors looking for personal data. Brex recruiters will only reach out via LinkedIn or email with a brex.com domain. Any outreach claiming to be from Brex via other sources should be ignored.