Firecrawl
General Counsel
$310K–$392K
San Francisco, CA · Hybrid · Full-time · Posted Sep 16, 2026
- Experience
- 12+ years of legal experience, including time running or helping run legal in-house at a venture-backed technology company.
- Visa sponsorship
- Open to candidates already authorized to work in the US; supports H-1B transfers, F-1 OPT and STEM OPT, TN (Canada and Mexico), and E-3 (Australia); cannot sponsor new H-1B visas for candidates outside the US.
About the job
Leads Firecrawl’s legal function, setting company-wide legal strategy and risk posture while advising on product, commercial, corporate, compliance, and policy matters.
What you'll do
- Set and defend legal positions on web data access, AI training data, copyright, data provenance, and machine-generated output.
- Lead corporate, commercial, privacy, security, compliance, open-source, employment, and dispute matters; advise founders on financings and board matters.
- Build and manage the legal team, outside counsel, and legal budget, and represent Firecrawl in policy discussions with regulators and legislators.
What they ask for
- 12+ years of legal experience, including 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 California bar membership or eligibility to register as in-house counsel in California.
- Experience across corporate, financing, governance, commercial, product, data, and IP legal work; experience leading a legal team and managing outside counsel.
- Heavy use of AI in legal practice.
Nice to have
- J.D. from a T14 law school or comparable academic credentials; training at an Am Law 100 or comparably sophisticated firm; in-house experience at a fast-scaling company.
- Exposure to data licensing, privacy, IP, open source, or data-access disputes.
Pay
$310,000–$392,000 USD/year base salary
Tools
GDPR, CCPA, EU AI Act, SOC 2
AI focus
Set legal strategy for AI training data, AI agents acting on the web, and machine-generated output; use AI heavily in legal practice and establish its use across the legal team.
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