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title: 'Technical Compliance Program Manager at Firecrawl'
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# Technical Compliance Program Manager at Firecrawl

- **Company:** Firecrawl
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA
- **Compensation:** $251k–$276k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-08-29
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-15
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/firecrawl/d96c0160-113d-441a-8e90-92d1bd28591a

## Job description

Technical Compliance Program Manager

You'll build the operational bridge between what Firecrawl is legally and contractually required to do and how our technology actually does it. This is a build-from-scratch role: as we scale into our next phase, someone has to turn novel legal, security, and policy requirements into real technical controls, monitoring, and documentation that engineers will actually follow. That's you. You'll own how Firecrawl proves, in practice, that our systems do what our policies and commitments say they do. This is not a legal role, and it's not a checklist compliance job. It's a technical program role for someone who speaks fluent engineer and fluent lawyer, and who is exceptionally good at turning ambiguous requirements into formal systems that work. You'll report jointly to the General Counsel and the CTO, and work across legal, engineering, sales, and ops. That's deliberate. The whole point of the seat is that it sits in both worlds.

Salary Range: $251,000–$276,000 USD/year Equity Range: Competitive equity. Details shared during the process. Location: San Francisco, CA (SF HQ). On-site, five days a week. Job Type: Full-Time Experience: 4–8 years in technical program management, product/engineering operations, trust & safety, privacy operations, or a comparable role. Direct experience working with software engineers matters Work Authorization: Must be authorized to work in the United States. We're not able to sponsor US visas right now, though that may change down the line.

## About Firecrawl

Firecrawl is the easiest way to turn the web into data AI agents can use. One API call converts any URL into clean, LLM-ready markdown or structured data. It's the boring-hard problem everyone building with LLMs eventually hits, solved. We hit 8 figures in ARR in year one and more than doubled it in year two. We have 180k+ GitHub stars, putting us in the top 50 repositories of all time, and developers, agents, and category-defining AI companies build on us every day. Growth like this is rare, and we're just getting started. We're a small team punching far above our weight, working out of SF HQ and our new Toronto Hub. Everyone here owns a real piece of the product and company, end to end, and runs it themselves. No hiding behind process or headcount. This is a place for people who want to work at the frontier: an AI company building the infrastructure other AI companies run on, not one bolting AI onto an existing product. We move fast, go deep, and are building the tools superintelligence will rely on to gather data from the web.

## What You'll Do

- Translate legal, security, and policy requirements into practical technical processes, controls, and documentation engineers will actually use
- Implement the compliance-related technical requirements the legal team defines, and own them once they're live
- Build and maintain the monitoring and controls that show our systems do what our policies and commitments require
- Coordinate cross-functional compliance projects end to end across engineering, legal, sales, and ops, from novel requirement to shipped system
- Document how our technical systems satisfy company policies and external obligations, in a way that survives a customer security review or an auditor's questions
- Find the gaps before someone else does, escalate what matters, and drive it to closed
- Build the metrics and reporting that tell leadership where we actually stand
- Automate compliance wherever it's practical. You'd rather build a control that runs itself than police a process by hand

## What We're Looking For

- You've run technical programs across engineering teams and shipped operational systems, not just tracked them in a spreadsheet
- You work fluently with software engineers and can hold your own on how systems actually work
- You turn ambiguity into structure. Novel, undefined requirements are the fun part, not the blocker
- You're technically curious and go find out how something works rather than waiting for someone to explain it
- You're extraordinarily organized and you close loops without being chased
- You're an excellent communicator in both directions: you can make a lawyer understand an architecture and an engineer understand an obligation
- You're a self-starter. Nobody is going to hand you a plan. You'll be designing this function while running it
- You're an AI super user. This is a hard requirement, not a nice-to-have. You reach for AI to move faster by default

Bonus: direct experience with legal, regulatory, privacy, or policy requirements. Preferred, not required. We care more about how you think than what frameworks you've memorized.

## What We're NOT Looking For

- Someone who runs compliance as a checklist and hands engineering a list of no's
- A pure legal or GRC background with no real technical depth
- Someone who needs the requirements fully defined before they can start
- Someone who optimizes for process over shipping

A Note On Pace We operate at an absurd level of urgency because the window for what we're building won't stay open forever. If that excites you, keep reading. If it doesn't, no hard feelings, but this role probably isn't for you.

## Benefits & Perks

Available to all employees

- Salary that makes sense: $251,000–$276,000 USD/year, based on impact, not tenure
- Own a piece: Gain competitive 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 USD/month for the gym, therapy, massages, or whatever keeps you human
- Learning & Development: Expense up to $1,000 USD/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

Available to US-based full-time employees

- Full coverage, no red tape: Medical, dental, and vision (100% for employees, 50% for partner and kids). No weird loopholes, just care that works
- Life & Disability insurance: Employer-paid basic life and AD&D, short-term disability, and long-term disability. Coverage for life's curveballs
- Virtual care and a health guide: Teladoc for the couch doctor visit, plus Rightway to answer coverage questions and fight billing errors for you
- Mental health: Talkspace, therapy and psychiatry on your schedule
- Fertility and family building: Carrot, covering you and your partner
- EAP: Free confidential counseling, legal and financial consults, and online will prep through Guardian
- 401(k) plan: Retirement might be a ways off, but future-you will thank you
- Pre-tax benefits: HSA, FSA, and commuter benefits to help your wallet out a bit
- Supplemental options: Extra life and AD&D, accident, critical illness, hospital indemnity, plus pet, legal, and identity protection through MetLife

Available to SF-based employees

- SF HQ perks: Snacks, drinks, team lunches, intense ping pong, and peak startup energy
- E-Bike transportation: A loaner electric bike to get you around the city, on us

Interview Process Application Review: Send us your work and a quick note on why this excites you. Show us something you've built or run: a program, a control, a system that made a messy requirement real. We care about what you've done, not where you went to school. Intro Chat (~25 min): A quick conversation to get to know each other before we go deep. We'll talk about what you've been working on, what drew you to Firecrawl, and what you're looking for in your next role. Time for your questions too. Technical Chat (~45 min): We'll dig into a real problem from our world (standing up a control and proving a system does what our policy says, or turning a vague external requirement into something engineers can ship against) and talk through how you'd approach it. Come ready to think out loud. We care how you reason, not whether you memorized a framework. Founder Chat (~25 min): Culture, pace, ownership, and how you like to work. Time for your questions too. Paid Work Trial (~40 Hours): Work with the team on a real, scoped piece of the work, paid at a contractor rate. It's the truest signal for both sides. You see what building at Firecrawl actually feels like, and we see how you operate. Remote-friendly, and we'll flex around your current commitments. Decision: We move fast after the trial.

If you want to design a modern compliance function from scratch at one of the fastest-growing AI companies in the world, you should join us. 👉 Apply now.

## About Firecrawl

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Firecrawl provides an API that allows AI systems to search, scrape, and interact with web content at scale, converting it into clean, structured data for LLMs and AI-native software.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series A)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, USA
- **Founded**: 2022
- **Founders**: Caleb Peffer (CEO), Eric Ciarla (Chief Growth Officer), Nicolas Silberstein Camara (CTO)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Infrastructure for AI / Web Data Extraction
- **Target customers**: B2B, developers, AI engineers, data scientists, and companies building LLM-based applications and agents
- **Mission statement**: "To make web data work for AI — cleanly, scalably, and in real time." The company describes itself as "building the eyes for AGI."

## Products & Services
- **[Firecrawl API](https://www.firecrawl.dev/)**: A unified API that turns the live internet into clean Markdown and structured data for LLMs, agents, and AI-native software. Core capabilities include:
  - **Search**: Searches the web and returns full page content (not just links) for real-time context and RAG pipelines.
  - **Scrape**: Converts any URL into clean markdown, structured JSON, screenshots, or semantic text.
  - **Interact**: Cloud sandboxes for agents that can click buttons, fill forms, and navigate dynamic content using natural language or code.
  - **Crawl**: Crawls websites at scale with blazing speed (P95 latency of 3.4s) and industry-leading reliability (covers 96% of the web, including JS-heavy pages).

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Total funding of **$16.2M** (Seed from Y Combinator, Series A led by Nexus Venture Partners)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Y Combinator, Nexus Venture Partners (Lead, Series A), Abhinav Asthana (CEO of Postman), Tobias Lutke (CEO of Shopify), Matt McClure (Founder of Mux)
- **Growth Signals**:
  - One of the fastest growing open source projects in the world with **125K+ GitHub stars** (one of the top 100 repos on GitHub)
  - **1.25M+ weekly downloads**
  - **150K+ developers signed up**
  - **5B+ requests served**
  - **125K+ companies using Firecrawl**
  - The company states it plans to hit **$100M in ARR with fewer than 50 people**

## Competitive Advantages
- **Unified platform**: Unlike duct-taping together proxies, scrapers, orchestrators, and post-processing logic, Firecrawl offers a single API for search, scrape, crawl, and interact — purpose-built for AI.
- **Speed and reliability**: P95 latency of 3.4s and 96% web coverage, including JavaScript-heavy pages, making it production-ready for real-time agents.
- **Open source dominance**: Being one of the top 100 repos on GitHub creates massive community adoption, trust, and a built-in distribution channel.
- **Founder-market fit**: The team previously built Mendable and SideGuide, giving them deep experience in the AI and developer tooling space.

## Strategic Focus
- **Current priorities**: Scaling the platform to handle increasing demand, expanding the "Interact" capability for agentic workflows, and maintaining leadership in the web-to-LLM data pipeline space.
- **Direction for growth**: Building the foundational infrastructure for AI-native software where "intelligence isn't an add-on, it's part of the core." The company is hiring aggressively across engineering, research, and growth roles to achieve its $100M ARR target with a lean team.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Founder-led environment — 80% of the team are former founders, 80% have a developer background. The company values "extreme speed" and ships rapidly.
- **Remote/Hybrid policy**: Hybrid in San Francisco, CA OR Remote in the Americas (UTC-3 to UTC-10). Full-time positions with visa sponsorship available.
- **Team size**: Lean team of approximately 12 people currently, with a philosophy of staying small and efficient.
- **Notable perks**: Opportunity to work on a high-impact, open-source project that is foundational to the AI ecosystem. The company is backed by top-tier investors and has massive traction, offering significant growth potential for early employees.
- **Engineering culture**: Emphasis on building the "eyes for AGI" — working at the cutting edge of AI infrastructure, with roles spanning product engineering, research engineering (Search/IR, Reinforcement Learning, Evals), and growth engineering.

## Sources
1. [firecrawl.dev/about](https://www.firecrawl.dev/about)
2. [firecrawl.dev](https://www.firecrawl.dev/)
3. [firecrawl.dev/careers](https://www.firecrawl.dev/careers)
4. [trymatchbox.com](https://www.trymatchbox.com/startups/70a1509f-8242-4a51-83ee-516a9ce596d5)
5. [github.com/firecrawl/firecrawl](https://github.com/firecrawl/firecrawl)

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