In-House Counsel
About The Position
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, and 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. That means real fluency in the legal landscape of web scraping and public data - crawling practices, robots.txt, terms of service, and the case law around access - and 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.
Requirements
- 6+ years practicing, with real exposure to data/IP, privacy, and technology transactions
- 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
- US Citizenship/Visa required
Nice To Haves
- 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
Responsibilities
- 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
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) — no weird loopholes, just care that works
- Life & Disability insurance — Employer-paid short-term disability, long-term disability, and life insurance — coverage for life's curveballs
- Supplemental options — Optional accident, critical illness, hospital indemnity, and voluntary life insurance for extra peace of mind
- 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) to help your wallet out a bit
- Pet insurance — Because fur babies are family too
- SF HQ perks — Snacks, drinks, team lunches, intense ping pong, and peak startup energy
- E-Bike transportation — A leased electric bike to get you around the city, on us
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
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