Technical Compliance Program Manager

Firecrawl; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 251,000 - 276,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Salary that makes sense

Own a piece — equity in what you're���

Generous PTO

Parental leave

Wellness stipend

Learning & Development

Team offsites

Sabbatical

Job summary

Firecrawl in San Francisco, CA seeks a Technical Compliance Program Manager to turn legal, security, and policy requirements into practical controls and documentation engineers can follow. This is a build-from-scratch role owning end-to-end compliant systems and audits.

You'll translate ambiguous requirements into formal processes, monitor and report on compliance, and collaborate across engineering, legal, and operations to ship verifiable controls that scale with the company.

Qualifications

• Translate legal, security, and policy requirements into technical processes, controls, and documentation engineers will actually use.
• Build and maintain monitoring that proves systems meet policies and commitments.
• Own cross-functional compliance projects end to end across engineering, legal, sales, and ops.

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 require.
• Own cross-functional compliance projects end to end across engineering, legal, sales, and ops.

Skills

Technical program management

Engineering collaboration

Legal/regulatory understanding

AI familiarity

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.

Salary Range: $251,000–$276,000/year

Equity Range: Competitive equity — details shared during the process.

Location: San Francisco, CA (Onsite)

Job Type: Full-Time

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.

What You'll Do

• 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, escal … 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 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.

Benefits & Perks

Available to all employees

• Salary that makes sense — $251,000–$276,000/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/month for the gym, therapy, massages, or whatever keeps you human

• Learning & Development — Expense up to $1,000/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 spouse/kids) — no weird loopholes, just care that works

• Life & Disability insurance — Employer-paid short-term disability, long-term disability, and life insurance — coverage for life's curveballs

• Supplemental options — Optional accident, critical illness, hospital indemnity, and voluntary life insurance for extra peace of mind

• Doctegrity telehealth — Talk to a doctor from your couch

• 401(k) plan — Retirement might be a ways off, but future-you will thank you

• Pre-tax benefits — Access to FSAs and commuter benefits (US-only) to help your wallet out a bit

• Pet insurance — Because fur babies are family too

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 — how you'd stand up a control and prove a system does what our policy says, or turn 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 (1-2 weeks) — 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.