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General Counsel

Firecrawl· Operations
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Hybrid (San Francisco, CA or Toronto, ON)$310k - $392kFull-timePosted 4w ago

About the role

General Counsel responsible for all legal, regulatory, compliance, and corporate governance matters at Firecrawl. Lead and build the legal team, shape company positions on web data access and AI-related issues, manage outside counsel and legal budget, and partner with founders on financings, board matters, and strategic decisions with a legal edge.

Responsibilities

  • Set Firecrawl's legal strategy and risk posture, including questions about what we crawl, robots.txt, data provenance, and lines on AI training data and machine-generated output
  • Own the company's position on web data access and defend it across diligence, negotiations, regulator interactions, and potential disputes; manage disputes and pre-litigation strategy
  • Run corporate and board legal: financings, governance, cap table, equity plans, board materials/minutes, corporate hygiene, and act as corporate secretary
  • Set the commercial legal posture: risk allocation, indemnity, data provenance, fallback structures, and deal terms
  • Lead privacy, security, and compliance with CTO: GDPR, CCPA, EU AI Act, SOC 2, sanctions/export, and data-broker laws relevance
  • Steward open source posture: license strategy, contributor terms, trademark protection, and delineation between project and product
  • Advise on employment and contractor matters across countries (EOR/PEO, IP assignment across borders, classification, immigration)
  • Build and lead the legal team, manage outside counsel within budget, and integrate legal into product/sales workflow
  • Represent Firecrawl in policy discussions on web data access and AI with industry groups, regulators, and legislators
  • Handle insurance, government inquiries, and communications review; ensure legal coverage for the whole company as GC area

Qualifications

  • 12+ years of legal experience, including time running or helping run legal in-house at a venture-backed technology company
  • Membership in good standing in at least one US state bar, and either California bar membership or eligibility to register as in-house counsel in California
  • Preferred: J.D. from a top law school (T14) or comparable credentials, Am Law 100 background, in-house scaling experience, and exposure to data licensing, privacy, IP, open source, or data-access disputes
  • Strong point of view on web data, AI, and copyright with ability to defend it
  • Ability to give business-focused advice and risk-based recommendations, not just legal risk identification
  • Experience leading a small legal team and managing outside counsel within budget
  • AI fluency; heavy use of AI in practice and willingness to push it forward

Skills

Required:Legal leadership and strategyCorporate governance and securitiesPrivacy and data protectionCommercial and product contracts
Nice to have:Open source licensing and IPRegulatory engagement

Benefits

  • Salary: $310,000–$392,000 USD/year
  • Competitive equity
  • 15 days PTO inherited with flexible holidays
  • 12 weeks fully paid parental leave
  • Wellness stipend: $100 USD/month
  • Learning & Development: up to $1,000 USD/year
  • Team offsites
  • Sabbatical: 3 paid months off after 4 years
  • US-based full-time: health/dental/vision fully for employee, partial for dependents; life & disability insurance; Teladoc; mental health benefits; fertility benefits; 401(k); pre-tax benefits
  • SF-based perks: snacks, team lunches, ping pong; E-Bike program
  • Hybrid, onsite 3+ days/week in SF or Toronto
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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