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Legal Operations Manager

Firecrawl· Operations
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Hybrid (San Francisco, CA), Hybrid (Remote (US time zones)), Hybrid (Toronto, Canada)$140k - $160kFull-timePosted 1mo ago

About the role

Operational lead to design and scale Firecrawl's legal function systems, processes, and vendor relationships from the ground up. Works across commercial contracting, compliance, legal tech, product, and regulatory matters to enable a lean legal team to move fast.

Responsibilities

  • Build and maintain the contract management, legal operations, and compliance systems the function runs on
  • Own the legal technology stack: CLM, e-billing, matter management. Pick the tools, run them, make them work
  • Build and run contract intake and routing, from first request to signature
  • Take on creative and novel tasks that don’t require a law degree but require reliable end-to-end ownership
  • Support the legal team on research, regulatory monitoring, and special projects
  • Work with finance, sales, product, engineering, HR, and security to keep legal workflows moving
  • Manage outside counsel and legal vendor relationships, including billing, budgets, and engagement terms
  • Identify repetitive work and standardize, automate, or eliminate it with technology and AI
  • Track legal spend, contract volume, and turnaround time, and report on status
  • Take on increasing ownership over time based on strengths and interests

Qualifications

  • Experience in legal operations, contracts, compliance, business operations, consulting, technology, or related fields with demonstrated complex work ownership
  • Ability to process AI outputs with strong judgment and produce accurate results
  • Proven ability to drive projects to completion independently
  • Experience designing or improving processes rather than merely maintaining them
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills with cross-functional partners
  • Discretion with confidential information
  • Ability to learn new tools quickly; comfort with AI-enabled workflows
  • Curiosity about how legal, business, and technology decisions are made
  • Not required to have a law degree; open to various educational backgrounds

Skills

Required:Contract lifecycle management (CLM)E-billingVendor managementCross-functional collaborationProcess design

Benefits

  • Salary: $140,000–$160,000 USD/year, location-adjusted
  • Competitive equity
  • Generous PTO: 15 days with additional time available after 24 days
  • 12 weeks fully paid parental leave
  • Wellness stipend: $100/month
  • Learning & Development up to $1,000/year
  • Team offsites
  • Sabbatical: 3 paid months off after 4 years
  • US health benefits (full for employees, partial for dependents) including medical, dental, vision
  • Life & Disability insurance, Teladoc, Rightway, Talkspace
  • 401(k), pre-tax benefits (HSA/FSA), commuter benefits
  • SF HQ perks and e-Bike program for SF-based employees
Last updated Oct 21, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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About Firecrawl

The web data API for AI

Firecrawl is a web data infrastructure platform that converts websites into clean, structured data optimized for AI applications through a simple API. Originally built as an internal tool at Mendable to solve their own data ingestion challenges, the team recognized the broader need for reliable web data extraction and transformed it into a standalone product. The platform combines web search, scraping, and AI-powered parsing into a unified solution, focusing on the core developer priorities of reliability, speed, and ease of use. By abstracting away the complexities of web data extraction, Firecrawl serves as the foundational data layer that enables AI applications to seamlessly access and process web content in the exact format they need.

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