[Hiring] In-House Counsel @Firecrawl

Role Description

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.
• 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.
• Real fluency in the legal landscape of web scraping and public data.
• 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.

Qualifications

• 6+ years practicing, with real exposure to data/IP, privacy, and technology transactions.
• US Citizenship/Visa required.

Requirements

• 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.

Benefits

• 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.
• 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 — Retirement might be a ways off, but future-you will thank you.
• Pre-tax benefits — Access to FSAs and commuter benefits (US-only).
• Pet insurance — Because fur babies are family too.

Interview Process

• Application Review — Send us your work and a quick note on why this excites you.
• Intro Chat (~25 min) — A quick conversation to get to know each other.
• Deep Dive (~60 min) — We'll work through a real problem from our world.
• Founder Chat (~25 min) — Culture, pace, ownership, and how you like to work.
• Paid Work Trial (1-2 weeks) — Spend focused time on a real, scoped legal question or document.
• 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.