General Counsel

The posting, as Firecrawl wrote it

GENERAL COUNSEL

You'll run legal at Firecrawl, all of it. Strategy, risk posture, policy, the team, and the outside firms. Every question about what we can crawl, license, build, sign, and ship comes to you first, and the founders will treat your read as the read.

Firecrawl sits on some of the least settled legal ground in technology. The rules for web data access, AI training data, copyright, and who owns machine-generated output are being written right now: in courtrooms, in regulators' offices, and in the deals companies like ours sign every week. Our General Counsel doesn't wait for that to settle. You'll set Firecrawl's positions, defend them to customers, counterparties, and regulators, and, where it counts, help shape where the law lands.

You'll report to our CEO, lead and finish building the legal team (commercial and product counsel, a technical compliance program lead shared with our CTO, and legal operations), own outside counsel and the legal budget, and sit next to the founders on financings, board matters, and every decision with a legal edge, which at Firecrawl is most of them.

Salary Range: $310,000–$392,000 USD/year

Equity Range: Competitive equity. Details shared during the process.

Location: San Francisco, CA (SF HQ) or Toronto, ON (Toronto Hub). Hybrid, onsite 3+ days a week.

Job Type: Full-Time

Experience: 12+ years of legal experience, including time running or helping run legal in-house at a venture-backed technology company

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

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• 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 a short note on why this excites you. Tell us about a legal call you made that the business pushed back on, how you landed it, and whether time proved you right.

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 publisher's demand letter, a frontier lab's provenance requirements, a regulator's question nobody has answered yet. How you'd set the company's position, what you'd tell the founders, and what you'd refuse to sign. Come ready to think out loud. We care how you reason, not whether you know the market term.

Strategy Exercise (Paid, ~2 hours): One scoped, realistic scenario. You write the memo you'd hand the founders: your recommendation, the exposure, and what you'd do in your first 30 days. 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 founder or CEO you've advised and to someone who sat across the table from you.

Decision: We move fast after references.

If you want to run legal for the infrastructure layer of AI, and set the positions before anyone has written the playbook, you should join us.

👉 Apply now.