# General Counsel

**Company**: Firecrawl
**Location**: San Francisco, CA
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: Full time
**Salary**: $310,000–$392,000 USD/year
**Category**: Legal
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

You'll run legal at Firecrawl, overseeing strategy, risk posture, policy, and the team. The company operates in a rapidly evolving area of technology, with complex legal issues surrounding web data access, AI training data, and copyright.

Responsibilities:

- Set Firecrawl's legal strategy and risk posture

- Own the company's position on web data access and defend it to customers, counterparties, and regulators

- Run corporate and board legal, including financings, governance, and equity plans

- Lead privacy, security, and compliance strategy alongside the CTO

- Steward the company's open source posture

- Advise People and Operations on employment and contractor matters

- Build and lead the legal team

- Represent Firecrawl in policy conversations on web data access and AI

Requirements:

- 12+ years of legal experience, including time running or helping run legal in-house at a venture-backed technology company

- Experience in corporate, financings, and governance, as well as commercial, product, data, and IP

- Strong understanding of web data, AI, and copyright issues

- Ability to give business advice, not just legal cover

- Experience leading lawyers and non-lawyers

- AI super user

- Membership in good standing in at least one US state bar

Benefits:

- Salary: $310,000–$392,000 USD/year

- Competitive equity

- Generous PTO

- Parental leave

- Wellness stipend

- Learning & Development budget

- Team offsites

- Sabbatical

- Full coverage medical, dental, and vision insurance

- Life & Disability insurance

- Virtual care and health guide

- Mental health support

- Fertility and family building benefits

- EAP

- 401(k) plan

- Pre-tax benefits

## Skills

### Required
- legal strategy
- risk posture
- web data access
- AI training data
- copyright
- corporate governance
- privacy
- security
- compliance
- open source

### Nice to have
- data licensing
- IP
- data-access disputes

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