Chief Financial Officer

The posting, as Firecrawl wrote it

CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER

You'll be Firecrawl's first CFO. Finance here isn't a reporting function that closes the books and forecasts what engineering already decided. It sits inside the product: our pricing is usage-based, our cost of goods moves with the web itself, and the gap between the two is the most important number in the company. You'll own that number and everything that feeds it.

We just closed a $75M Series B, launched our second product, Alexandria, and are hiring at a pace that will nearly double the team. Finance got us here running lean, the way a company our size should. The next stage needs a function built for it: accounting and controls, FP&A, tax and treasury, billing and revenue recognition, capital strategy, and the board relationship, built without slowing the company down.

You'll report to our CEO, sit with the founders on every decision that costs money or makes it, partner with our General Counsel and Chief of Staff on the company's operating spine, and own how we deploy the capital we just raised and help raise the round after it.

Salary Range: $400,000–$453,000 USD/year

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: 4+ years

Work Authorization: Open to candidates already authorized to work in the US. We also support H-1B transfers, F-1 OPT and STEM OPT, TN (Canada and Mexico), and E-3 (Australia). We’re not able to sponsor new H-1B visas for candidates outside the US.

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 192k+ GitHub stars, putting us in the top 40 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. 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.

OUR VALUES

• Bias to action: We move fast, ship hard, and don’t wait to be told.
• Realistic about AI: We’re clear-eyed about what AI can and can’t do, and we keep pushing to use it where it actually work

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• 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 a short note on why this excites you. Tell us about a call you made with the numbers that the founders or board didn't want to hear, how you delivered it, and what happened next.

Intro Chat (~25 min): 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.

Case Chat (~45 min): We'll work through a real problem from our world: a pricing change where cost per request is moving underneath it, a margin question with no clean answer, or a capital deployment tradeoff between headcount and infrastructure. How you'd reason, what you'd measure, and what you'd tell the founders. Come ready to think out loud. We care how you reason, not whether you know the market multiple.

Modeling Exercise (Paid, ~3 hours): One scoped, anonymized dataset. You build the analysis and write the one-page read you'd hand the founders: what the numbers say, what you'd do about it, and what you'd want to know next. Keep it short. We'll read every word.

Founder Chats (~30 min each): Time with each of our founders on culture, pace, ownership, and how you'd work together. Time for your questions too.

References: We'll want to talk to a CEO you've served, a board member or investor who saw your board work, and someone who reported to you.

Decision: We move fast after references.

If you want to own the economics of the infrastructure layer of AI, and build finance for a company nobody has written the playbook for, you should join us.

👉 Apply now.