Firecrawl

Commercial Counsel

Who can apply: US-based role. The employer has not said which states are eligible — confirm before applying.
Location as listed by the employer: “San Francisco, US or Toronto, Canada (Preferred) OR Remote (Americas, UTC-3 to UTC-10)”
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About this role

Firecrawl is hiring for a Commercial Counsel role (full-time). See the official posting for full details.

Requirements

  • You've negotiated real technology agreements. Not reviewed them. Negotiated them, across the table, with a counterparty's counsel pushing back, and you've held the positions that mattered and conceded the ones that didn…
  • You can carry a deal on your own. You don't need someone to structure the negotiation for you or check every redline before it goes out. You take a matter and bring it to signature
  • You know exactly when to escalate. This role has real autonomy and that only works if you're good at telling routine from novel, and you flag the novel one early rather than after it's a problem
  • You give business advice, not legal cover. Our teams need a recommendation and a risk read they can act on, not a memo listing every possible exposure. If your default answer is no, this will be frustrating for both of…
  • You work well with non-lawyers. Most of your internal clients are engineers and salespeople. They'll trust you if you're fast, clear, and unpretentious
  • You're an AI super user. Non-negotiable. You should already be using AI heavily in your own practice, and you should want to push it further than anyone has taken it in this profession. We'll give you room to try things…
  • Membership in good standing in at least one US state bar or Canadian provincial law society. Preferred: a J.D. from a T14 law school or comparable academic credentials, and prior experience at an Am Law 100 firm or a co…

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