Commercial Counsel

The role

You will run day-to-day commercial contracting including enterprise deals, data-licensing agreements, vendor paper, and partnership terms. You will draft, negotiate, and close deals while building templates and playbooks. You will also advise on data rights, privacy, and AI-related legal questions.

What you will do

• Draft and negotiate enterprise customer agreements, data-licensing deals, vendor contracts, NDAs, and partnership agreements
• Be the legal partner sales and BD actually want in the room
• Advise on data rights, privacy, confidentiality, security, IP, indemnification, and limitations of liability
• Work with product and engineering on data access and AI questions
• Help build and maintain templates, playbooks, fallback positions, and approval thresholds
• Support compliance programs and company policies
• Escalate matters to the GC, senior counsel, or outside counsel
• Pick up other legal needs as the company grows

Required qualifications

• 3–8 years of commercial, technology, or product counseling experience
• Negotiated real technology agreements across the table with counterparty counsel
• Ability to carry a deal to signature independently
• Ability to provide business advice and risk reads rather than just legal cover
• Ability to work well with non-lawyers
• AI super user: must be already using AI heavily in your own practice
• Membership in good standing in at least one US state bar or Canadian provincial law society
• Authorized to work in the US

Nice to have

• J.D. from a T14 law school or comparable academic credentials
• Prior experience at an Am Law 100 firm or a comparably sophisticated firm
• Exposure to data licensing, privacy, IP, or data-access issues

Benefits

• Salary based on impact, not tenure
• 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 virtual care
• Talkspace mental health support

Before you apply

• Must be authorized to work in the US (H-1B transfers, F-1 OPT and STEM OPT, TN, and E-3 supported; no new H-1B sponsorship for candidates outside the US)
• Application requires a resume and a short note about a deal you owned

About the company

Firecrawl is an AI company that turns the web into data AI agents can use via an API. They are building the largest repository of knowledge in the world.