Technical Compliance Program Manager

About the role

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.

Salary and equity

Salary Range: $251,000–$276,000/year
Equity Range: Competitive equity — details shared during the process.

Location and type

Location: San Francisco, CA (Onsite)
Job Type: Full-Time

Experience and eligibility

Experience: 4–8 years in technical program management, product/engineering operations, trust & safety, privacy operations, or a comparable role
Visa: Must be legally authorized to work in the United States. We're not able to sponsor 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 — 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 170k+ GitHub stars, 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. 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.

Responsibilities

• Translate legal, security, and policy requirements into practical technical processes, controls, and documentation engineers will actually use
• Build and maintain the monitoring and controls that show our systems do what our policies and commitments require
• Own 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

Qualifications

• 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 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 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.