In-House Counsel

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.

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).
• Life & Disability insurance — Employer-paid short-term disability, long-term disability, and life insurance.
• Supplemental options — Optional accident, critical illness, hospital indemnity, and voluntary life insurance.
• Doctegrity telehealth — Talk to a doctor from your couch.
• 401(k) plan.
• Pre-tax benefits — Access to FSAs and commuter benefits.
• Pet insurance.

Available to SF-based employees

• SF HQ perks — Snacks, drinks, team lunches, intense ping pong.
• E-Bike transportation — A leased electric bike to get you around the city.