In-House Counsel

Youll be Firecrawls first full-time in-house lawyer owning legal across the business as we scale. Day to day youll partner with our revenue teams - redlining customer contracts MSAs and DPAs and moving deals forward quickly without letting risk pile up in the wrong places. Youll also own one of the most important and least-settled areas of law in our space: how the webs data can be sourced licensed and served. That means real fluency in the legal landscape of web scraping and public data - crawling practices terms of service and the case law around access - and structuring agreements so risk lands where it should across copyright data access and privacy. Its a hybrid role: as much time with our engineers on how we source and serve data as with the commercial teams on the paper. Youll report to our Head of Finance and Legal and work closely with the founders owning real surface area from day one.

Salary Range: $225000$265000/year (Range shown is for U.S.-based employees in San Francisco CA. Compensation outside SF and the U.S. is adjusted fairly based on your cost of living.)

Equity Range: Competitive equity details shared during the process.

Location: San Francisco CA (Hybrid on-site required)

Job Type: Full-Time

Experience: 6 years practicing with real exposure to data/IP privacy and technology transactions

Visa: Must be legally authorized to work in the United States. Were not able to sponsor 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 - 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 150k GitHub stars and developers agents and category-defining AI companies build on us every day. Growth like this is rare and were just getting started.

Were a small team punching far above our weight. 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.

• Structure customer contracts (MSAs and Order Forms) so risk lands in the right place across copyright data access and privacy and so we can serve different types of data to different customers safely

• Own the legal side of our partnership and content licensing deals structuring them so risk lands in the right place

• Become Firecrawls expert on the web scraping and public-data legal landscape (crawling ToS access case law) and turn that expertise into a competitive advantage

• Work directly with engineering on how we source and serve data the technical-compliance side not just the paperwork

• Advise the founders and Head of Finance and Legal on risk structure and strategy as we scale through a Series B and beyond

• Build the legal infrastructure templates playbooks and processes that lets a small team move fast

• You know the web scraping / public data legal terrain cold or youre hungry to go deep on it fast

• Youre as comfortable in a conversation with engineers about how data flows as you are redlining a contract

• You can structure a deal so the risk sits where it should across copyright data access and privacy

• Youre comfortable being the only lawyer in the room and making the call

• You translate legal complexity into clear practical guidance for a fast-moving team

• Someone who needs a large legal department around them

• Someone who defaults to no instead of finding the path to yes and heres how

• Someone who wants to stay on the contract and never touch the technical reality underneath it

• Someone uncomfortable with novel unsettled areas of law

We operate at an absurd level of urgency because the window for what were building wont stay open forever. If that excites you keep reading. If it doesnt no hard feelings but this role probably isnt for you.

• Salary that makes sense $220000$265000/year based on impact not tenure

• Own a piece Gain competitive equity in what youre 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/month for the gym therapy massages or whatever keeps you human

• Learning & Development Expense up to $1000/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

• Full coverage no red tape Medical dental and vision (100% for employees 50% for spouse/kids) no weird loopholes just care that works

• Life & Disability insurance Employer-paid short-term disability long-term disability and life insurance coverage for lifes curveballs

• Supplemental options Optional accident critical illness hospital indemnity and voluntary life insurance for extra peace of mind

• Doctegrity telehealth Talk to a doctor from your couch

• 401(k) plan Retirement might be a ways off but future-you will thank you

• Pre-tax benefits Access to FSAs and commuter benefits (US-only) to help your wallet out a bit

• Pet insurance Because fur babies are family too

• SF HQ perks Snacks drinks team lunches intense ping pong and peak startup energy

• E-Bike transportation A leased electric bike to get you around the city on us

• Application Review Send us your work and a quick note on why this excites you. Show us the kind of work youve owned deals youve closed thorny data/IP or access questions youve untangled ambiguity youve navigated. We care about what youve done not where you went to school.

• Intro Chat (25 min) A quick conversation to get to know each other before we go deep. Well talk about what youve been working on what drew you to Firecrawl and what youre looking for in your next role. Time for your questions too.

• Deep Dive (60 min) Well work through a real problem from our world a data-partnership deal were trying to structure or a scraping/access question weve actually faced and talk through how youd think about the risk and find the path to yes. Come ready to think out loud; we care how you reason not whether you memorized the answer.

• Founder Chat (25 min) Culture pace ownership and how you like to work. Time for your questions too.

• Paid Work Trial (1-2 weeks) Spend focused time on a real scoped legal question or document paid for your time. Its the truest signal for both sides: you see what practicing at Firecrawl actually feels like and we see how you operate. Well flex around your current commitments.

• Decision We move fast after the session.

If you want to own the legal frontier of web data where the contract and the crawler meet and turn it into an edge instead of a liability you should join us.

Apply now.