Where is Brex headquartered?

Brex's headquarters is at 270 Brannan Street in San Francisco's South of Market (SoMa) neighborhood — a 100,000-square-foot, seven-story office that the company leased in mid-2025 and moved into in November 2025. This represents a 67% expansion from Brex's original 60,000-square-foot San Francisco office at 405 Howard Street, which it vacated in 2021 when it went 'headquarterless' and fully remote.

The return to a physical San Francisco headquarters reflects Brex's post-pivot confidence and the broader Bay Area fintech ecosystem's re-concentration in SF. The SoMa address is a short walk from Salesforce Tower and close to many of Brex's enterprise customer offices, making it strategically useful for client meetings and executive access. The move was also philosophically aligned with Brex's 'founder mode' operating model, which emphasizes in-person collaboration and faster decision-making.

Brex now sits inside Capital One following the April 2026 acquisition. The San Francisco office remains Brex's operational headquarters; Capital One's primary offices are in McLean, VA and New York, NY. No office consolidation has been announced as of June 2026.

Beyond San Francisco, Brex has employee clusters in New York (important for enterprise sales to financial services and media customers on the East Coast) and Austin, TX (which became a hub for engineering and product talent during the remote-work era). Brex retains a meaningfully distributed workforce across the US — a legacy of its 2021–2024 fully-remote model that was never fully reversed even after the SF headquarters re-opened.

Internationally, Brex has engineering presence in Brazil — the founders' home country — and has customers and GTM activity in Canada, the UK, and parts of Europe, though the US remains the overwhelming majority of revenue. The January 2025 debt round included Citi's participation, potentially signaling expanded international treasury and financial product ambitions under Capital One's ownership.

Brex's distributed engineering footprint means that Austin and Brazil remain meaningful talent hubs even as leadership gravitates back to San Francisco. Job postings through early 2026 show continued hiring across SF, New York, and remote-US roles, with engineering roles most concentrated in SF and remote.

San Francisco is the decisional center of gravity for Brex: engineering, product, and C-suite leadership are all anchored at 270 Brannan. For field sales, ABM campaigns, or executive-level relationship building, SF is the primary city for EBRs, executive dinners, and in-person C-suite touchpoints. New York is the secondary hub for enterprise sales conversations — particularly for Brex customers in financial services, media, and professional services.

Brex's distributed engineering and product workforce means that virtual-first outreach (Zoom, email, async Slack demos) still works well for mid-funnel deals. However, enterprise expansion deals and multi-year renewals benefit from in-person executive engagement in SF — reflecting Brex's cultural shift back toward physical collaboration under the 'founder mode' model. Champions below the C-suite are often reachable remotely; C-level sponsorship for larger contracts increasingly requires SF face time.

Post-Capital One acquisition, the McLean, VA and New York Capital One offices are becoming relevant for deals that require Capital One's procurement and legal sign-off. Sellers targeting Brex's larger enterprise deals should map their account plan to include both Brex SF contacts and Capital One commercial-division contacts as the integration governance layer matures through 2026.