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Firecrawl
San Francisco, CA
Source: Firecrawl careers · View original posting
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General Counsel
You'll run legal at Firecrawl, all of it. Strategy, risk posture, policy, the team, and the outside firms. Every question about what we can crawl, license, build, sign, and ship comes to you first, and the founders will treat your read as the read.
Firecrawl sits on some of the least settled legal ground in technology. The rules for web data access, AI training data, copyright, and who owns machine-generated output are being written right now: in courtrooms, in regulators' offices, and in the deals companies like ours sign every week. Our General Counsel doesn't wait for that to settle. You'll set Firecrawl's positions, defend them to customers, counterparties, and regulators, and, where it counts, help shape where the law lands.
You'll report to our CEO, lead and finish building the legal team (commercial and product counsel, a technical compliance program lead shared with our CTO, and legal operations), own outside counsel and the legal budget, and sit next to the founders on financings, board matters, and every decision with a legal edge, which at Firecrawl is most of them.
Compensation
$310,000–$392,000 USD/year
Competitive equity. Details shared during the process.
San Francisco, CA (SF HQ). On-site, five days a week.
Full-Time
12+ years of legal experience, including time running or helping run legal in-house at a venture-backed technology company
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.
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.
We hit 8 figures in ARR in year one and more than doubled it in year two. We have 180k+ 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.
Compensation
$310,000–$392,000 USD/year. Based on impact, not tenure
Gain competitive equity in what you're helping build
15 days mandatory, anything after 24 days, just ask (holidays excluded). Take the time you need to recharge
12 weeks fully paid, for all parents
$100 USD/month for the gym, therapy, massages, or whatever keeps you human
Expense up to $1,000 USD/year toward anything that helps you grow professionally
A change of scenery, minus the trust falls
3 paid months off after 4 years, do something fun and new
Available to US-based full-time employees
Medical, dental, and vision (100% for employees, 50% for partner and kids). No weird loopholes, just care that works
Employer-paid basic life and AD&D, short-term disability, and long-term disability. Coverage for life's curveballs
Teladoc for the couch doctor visit, plus Rightway to answer coverage questions and fight billing errors for you
Talkspace, therapy and psychiatry on your schedule
Carrot, covering you and your partner
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
HSA, FSA, and commuter benefits to help your wallet out a bit
Extra life and AD&D, accident, critical illness, hospital indemnity, plus pet, legal, and identity protection through MetLife
Available to SF-based employees
Snacks, drinks, team lunches, intense ping pong, and peak startup energy
A loaner electric bike to get you around the city, on us
Interview Process
Send us your resume and a short note on why this excites you. Tell us about a legal call you made that the business pushed back on, how you landed it, and whether time proved you right.
A quick conversation to get to know each other before we go deep. What you've been running, what drew you to Firecrawl, and what you want next. Time for your questions too.
We'll work through a real problem from our world: a publisher's demand letter, a frontier lab's provenance requirements, a regulator's question nobody has answered yet. How you'd set the company's position, what you'd tell the founders, and what you'd refuse to sign. Come ready to think out loud. We care how you reason, not whether you know the market term.
One scoped, realistic scenario. You write the memo you'd hand the founders: your recommendation, the exposure, and what you'd do in your first 30 days. Keep it short. We'll read every word.
Time with each of our founders on culture, pace, ownership, and how you'd work together. Time for your questions too.
We'll want to talk to a founder or CEO you've advised and to someone who sat across the table from you.
We move fast after references.
If you want to run legal for the infrastructure layer of AI, and set the positions before anyone has written the playbook, you should join us.
👉 Apply now.
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