# General Counsel at Firecrawl

- Company: Firecrawl
- What the company does: Firecrawl is the web data API to search, scrape, and interact with the web at scale. Turn any source into clean Markdown or structured data your agents can ship with. Backed by Y Combinator.
- Company website: https://www.firecrawl.dev
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Mid level
- Location: San Francisco, CA
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $310K to $392K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-09-16
- Apply by: 2026-10-31
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/firecrawl/0c635f7b-559b-4bca-930a-fcac4a9c4a7d
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/firecrawl-general-counsel/

## About the role

Set Firecrawl's legal strategy and risk posture, starting with the questions that define the company: what we crawl and how, how we treat robots.txt and publisher opt-outs, what data provenance we stand behind, and where the lines are on AI training data, agents acting on the web for users, and machine-generated output

## What they're looking for

- You cover the full field. Corporate, financings, and governance on one side, commercial, product, data, and IP on the other. Deep in at least one, credible in all of them, and honest about where you'll lean on outside counsel
- You have a real point of view on web data, AI, and copyright, and you can defend it. You've read the cases, you've watched the licensing market form, and you're not waiting for settled law to take a position
- You've been in the room when it went wrong. A demand letter, a regulator's inquiry, a deal that died on indemnity, a board meeting with bad news. Calm and clear under that is not a nice-to-have here
- You lead lawyers and non-lawyers. You've built or run a small legal team, held outside counsel to a budget, and earned the trust of engineers and salespeople by being fast, clear, and unpretentious
- You're an AI super user. Non-negotiable. You already use AI heavily in your own practice, you'll set the standard for the legal team, and you want to push it further than anyone has taken it in this profession
- A GC who runs legal as the department of no and measures success by risk avoided rather than by what the company shipped and signed

Tags: Legal Team