layiq

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LAYIQ - Partnerships Lead - Alexandria at Firecrawl

Equity Range:

Competitive equity. Details shared during the process.

Location:

San Francisco, CA (SF HQ). Hybrid, onsite 3+ days a week.

Job Type:

Full-Time

Experience:

6+ years

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

Own the provider pipeline end to end: map the sources agents need by category (finance, government, research, code, commerce, real estate, and whatever's next), prioritize by agent demand, and go get them
Source, pitch, and close data providers, publishers, research organizations, and first-party sources, from cold outreach to signed agreement
Structure the deals: licensing terms, pricing per call, revenue share, attribution, and usage rights, working with our legal team on paper without waiting on them to move
Carry every signed provider through onboarding to a live catalog listing, working with the Alexandria engineering team on inputs, response shape, pricing, and terms acceptance
Build the playbook for the self-serve contributor program so individuals and organizations can join without a call
Feed what providers say back into the product: which capabilities agents want, where the catalog has gaps, and what makes a source worth paying for Track the data-licensing and agent-tooling market closely enough to know where the next hundred sources come from

What We're Looking For

6+ years in partnerships, business development, or content and data licensing, with deals you personally sourced, negotiated, and signed
Experience on at least one side of a data, content, or API marketplace: licensing data in, distributing it out, or building the supply side of a two-sided network
Technical enough to read API docs, run our MCP, inspect a provider's endpoints, and explain to an engineer why a listing is wrong
You write terms, not just relationships: comfortable drafting first-pass commercial terms and knowing which points to fight for A pipeline operator: you run outreach at volume, keep a real CRM, and can show the numbers on what converted and what didn't
AI-native in how you work. Agents and coding tools are part of your daily toolkit, not something you've read about
High agency. You can build a function from zero in a market that doesn't have a playbook yet
Often an ex-founder, early BD hire at a devtools or data company, or someone who built a marketplace's supply side from scratch

What We're NOT Looking For

Channel, reseller, or alliance managers from enterprise SaaS. This is supply-side deal work, not co-marketing
Relationship-only BD who can't open a terminal or read an API reference
Someone who needs legal to write every term before they can talk price
Corp dev or M&A profiles. We're signing hundreds of providers, not acquiring one
Someone who has only managed inbound partners and never built a pipeline cold
Someone excited by AI in theory who hasn't actually used agents to do their job
A Note On Pace
We operate at an absurd level of urgency because the window for what we're building won't stay open forever. If that excites you, keep reading. If it doesn't, no hard feelings, but this role probably isn't for you.

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

E-Bike transportation:

A loaner electric bike to get you around the city, on us

Interview Process

Application Review:

Send us your resume and two or three deals you personally sourced and closed, with what you owned in each. We care about what you've actually signed, not where you went to school.

Intro Chat (~25 min):

A quick conversation to get to know each other before we go deep. We'll talk about what you've been working on, what drew you to Firecrawl, and what you're looking for in your next role. Time for your questions too.

Partnerships Deep Dive (~45 min):

Walk us through a deal you built from cold outreach to signature, including the terms you fought for and the one you gave up. Then a live scenario: which providers would you go after first for Alexandria, and how would you get them to yes? We care how you reason and prioritize, not whether you know the "right" answer going in.

Founder Chat (~25 min):

Culture, pace, ownership, and how you like to work. Time for your questions too.

Paid Work Trial (~40 Hours):

Build a real target provider map, run real outreach, and bring at least one provider to terms with the team, paid at a contractor rate. It's the truest signal for both sides. You see what building at Firecrawl actually feels like, and we see how you operate.

Decision:

We move fast after the trial.

If you want to build the library every AI agent reads from, one provider at a time, you should join us.

👉 Apply now.

Partnerships Lead - Alexandria

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Own a piece:

Generous PTO:

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Life & Disability insurance:

Virtual care and a health guide:

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SF HQ perks:

E-Bike transportation:

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Intro Chat (~25 min):

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Founder Chat (~25 min):

Paid Work Trial (~40 Hours):

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