Legal Operations Manager

Legal Operations Manager

You'll be the operational engine behind how Firecrawl's legal function actually runs. Reporting to the General Counsel, this is a build-from-scratch role: as we scale, someone has to stand up the systems, processes, and vendor relationships that let a lean legal team keep pace with a company growing this fast. That's you.

This is not primarily an administrative job. It's an operational build role for someone who is genuinely energized by designing systems from nothing, who can pick up a messy process and turn it into something repeatable that engineers, salespeople, and executives actually use. You'll work across commercial contracting, compliance, legal technology, product, and regulatory matters, not by practicing law, but by building the machinery that lets the lawyers move fast.

We care more about judgment, ability, and initiative than about the path you took to get here.

Equity Range:

Competitive equity. Details shared during the process.

Location:

San Francisco, CA (SF HQ) preferred, on-site five days a week. Open to remote within US time zones (UTC-5 to UTC-10) for the right candidate.

Job Type:

Full-Time

Experience:

Flexible. We're looking for demonstrated high achievement, exceptional organization, and high agency. Background matters less than what you've owned (see below*)

Work Authorization:

Must be authorized to work in the United States. We're not able to sponsor US visas right now, though that may change down the line.

About Firecrawl

Firecrawl is the easiest way to turn the web into data AI agents can use. One API call converts any URL into clean, LLM-ready markdown or structured data. It's the boring-hard problem everyone building with LLMs eventually hits, solved.

In September 2026 we raised a $75M Series B led by Smash Capital, and we're spending it building the largest repository of knowledge in the world. We hit 8 figures in ARR in year one and more than doubled it in year two. We have 183k+ GitHub stars, putting us in the top 50 repositories of all time, and developers, agents, and category-defining AI companies build on us every day. Growth like this is rare, and we're just getting started.

We're a small team punching far above our weight, working out of SF HQ and our new Toronto Hub. Everyone here owns a real piece of the product and company, end to end, and runs it themselves. No hiding behind process or headcount.

This is a place for people who want to work at the frontier: an AI company building the infrastructure other AI companies run on, not one bolting AI onto an existing product. We move fast, go deep, and are building the tools superintelligence will rely on to gather data from the web. That library is called Alexandria, and it starts now.

What You'll Do

• Build and maintain the contract management, legal operations, and compliance systems the function runs on Own the legal technology stack: CLM, e-billing, matter management. Pick the tools, run them, make them work
• Build and run contract intake and routing, from first request to signature
• Take on the creative and novel tasks that don't require a law degree but do require someone reliable to own them end to end
• Support the legal team on research, regulatory monitoring, and special projects
• Work with finance, sales, product, engineering, HR, and security to keep legal workflows moving

Own a piece:

Gain competitive equity in what you're helping build

Generous PTO:

15 days mandatory, anything after 24 days, just ask (holidays excluded). Take the time you need to recharge

Parental leave:

12 weeks fully paid, for all parents

Wellness stipend:

$100 USD/month for the gym, therapy, massages, or whatever keeps you human

Learning & Development:

Expense up to $1,000 USD/year toward anything that helps you grow professionally

Team offsites:

A change of scenery, minus the trust falls

Sabbatical:

3 paid months off after 4 years, do something fun and new

Available to US-based full-time employees

Full coverage, no red tape:

Medical, dental, and vision (100% for employees, 50% for partner and kids). No weird loopholes, just care that works

Life & Disability insurance:

Employer-paid basic life and AD&D, short-term disability, and long-term disability. Coverage for life's curveballs

Virtual care and a health guide:

Teladoc for the couch doctor visit, plus Rightway to answer coverage questions and fight billing errors for you

Mental health:

Talkspace, therapy and psychiatry on your schedule

Fertility and family building:

Carrot, covering you and your partner

EAP:

Free confidential counseling, legal and financial consults, and online will prep through Guardian

401(k) plan:

Retirement might be a ways off, but future-you will thank you

Pre-tax benefits:

HSA, FSA, and commuter benefits to help your wallet out a bit

Supplemental options:

Extra life and AD&D, accident, critical illness, hospital indemnity, plus pet, legal, and identity protection through MetLife

Available to SF-based employees

SF HQ perks:

Snacks, drinks, team lunches, intense ping pong, and peak startup energy