Firecrawl

General Counsel

San Francisco, CA, Remote. Posted a month ago

The role

You will run all legal operations at Firecrawl, including strategy, risk posture, and policy. You will lead the legal team, manage outside counsel, and advise founders on financings, board matters, and product decisions.

What you will do

  • Set legal strategy and risk posture regarding web data access and AI training data
  • Own and defend the company's position on web data access to customers and regulators
  • Run corporate and board legal including financings, governance, and cap table management
  • Act as corporate secretary
  • Set commercial legal posture including risk allocation and indemnity
  • Lead privacy, security, and compliance strategy
  • Steward open source posture including license strategy and trademark protection
  • Advise People and Operations on employment and contractor matters globally
  • Build and lead the legal team and manage outside counsel budget
  • Represent Firecrawl in policy conversations with regulators and legislators

Required qualifications

  • 12+ years of legal experience
  • Experience running or helping run legal in-house at a venture-backed technology company
  • Experience in corporate, financings, and governance
  • Experience in commercial, product, data, and IP
  • Ability to provide business recommendations and risk reads
  • Experience leading lawyers and non-lawyers
  • Heavy use of AI in legal practice
  • Membership in good standing in at least one US state bar
  • California bar membership or eligibility to register as in-house counsel in California

Nice to have

  • J.D. from a T14 law school or comparable academic credentials
  • Training at an Am Law 100 firm or a comparably sophisticated firm
  • In-house years at a company that scaled fast
  • Exposure to data licensing, privacy, IP, open source, or data-access disputes

Benefits

  • Competitive equity
  • 15 days mandatory PTO, plus more after 24 days
  • 12 weeks fully paid parental leave
  • $100 USD/month wellness stipend
  • $1,000 USD/year Learning & Development expense
  • Team offsites
  • 3 paid months sabbatical after 4 years
  • Medical, dental, and vision (100% for employees, 50% for partner and kids)
  • Employer-paid basic life and AD&D, short-term disability, and long-term disability
  • Teladoc and Rightway access
  • Talkspace access
  • Carrot fertility and family building

Before you apply

  • Must be authorized to work in the US (H-1B transfers, F-1 OPT, STEM OPT, TN, and E-3 supported)
  • Application requires a resume and a short note regarding a legal call made that the business pushed back on
  • Process includes an Intro Chat, Case Chat, Paid Strategy Exercise, Founder Chats, and Reference checks

About the company

Firecrawl is an AI infrastructure company that turns the web into data for AI agents. It is a small team that has reached 8 figures in ARR and has 192k+ GitHub stars.