About this In-House Counsel role at Firecrawl
In-House Counsel
You'll be Firecrawl's first full-time in-house lawyer, owning legal across the business as we scale. Day to day, you'll 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. You'll also own one of the most important and least-settled areas of law in our space: how the web's data can be sourced, licensed, and served. That means real fluency in the legal landscape of web scraping and public data - crawling practices, robots.txt, terms of service, and the case law around access - and structuring agreements so risk lands where it should across copyright, data access, and privacy. It's a hybrid role: as much time with our engineers on how we source and serve data as with the commercial teams on the paper. You'll report to our Head of Finance and Legal and work closely with the founders, owning real surface area from day one.
Salary Range: $225,000–$265,000/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: 0.02%–0.04%
Location: San Francisco, CA or Remote (Americas, UTC-3 to UTC-10)
Job Type: Full-Time
Experience: 6+ years practicing, with real exposure to data/IP, privacy, and technology transactions
Visa: US Citizenship/Visa required
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 - 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 147k+ GitHub stars, 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.
What You'll Do
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 Firecrawl's expert on the web scraping and public-data legal landscape (crawling, robots.txt, 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
Who We're Looking For
You know the web scraping / public data legal terrain cold, or you're hungry to go deep on it fast
You're 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
You're 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
Who We're NOT Looking For
Someone who needs a large legal department around them
Someone who defaults to "no" instead of finding the path to "yes, and here's 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
A Note On Pace
We operate at an absurd level of urgency because the window for what we're building won't stay open forever. If that excites you, keep reading. If it doesn't, no hard feelings — but this role probably isn't for you.
Benefits & Perks
Available to all employees
Salary that makes sense — $220,000–$265,000/year, based on impact, not tenure
Own a piece — 0.02%–0.04% equity in what you're 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 $1,000/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
Available to US-based full-time employees
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 life's 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
Available to SF-based employees
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
Interview Process
Application Review — Send us your work and a quick note on why this excites you. Show us the kind of work you've owned — deals you've closed, thorny data/IP or access questions you've untangled, ambiguity you've navigated. We care about what you've done, not where you went to school.
Intro Chat (~25 min) — A quick conversation to get to know each other before we go deep. We'll talk about what you've been working on, what drew you to Firecrawl, and what you're looking for in your next role. Time for your questions too.
Deep Dive (~60 min) — We'll work through a real problem from our world — a data-partnership deal we're trying to structure, or a scraping/access question we've actually faced — and talk through how you'd 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. It's the truest signal for both sides: you see what practicing at Firecrawl actually feels like, and we see how you operate. We'll 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.
