Senior Staff Engineering Program Manager, Mozilla
Internet software for people, not profit
Open for applications
Internet software for people, not profit
1001+ employees
Open for applications
1001+ employees
Company mission
To ensure the internet remains open and accessible.
Role
Who you are
- Success in this role requires strong program leadership, risk management, and a deep understanding of how technical and business priorities intersect in advertising
- 10+ years of technical program management experience in ad delivery and the ad tech ecosystem
- Experience managing software engineering programs end to end
- Excellent interpersonal skills to juggle many activities without losing sight of the highest-priority items
- Ability to understand complex concepts and make reasoned decisions with sometimes imperfect data
- Good communication skills, relationship-building, and negotiation skills
- Ability to communicate and interact with leaders within the advertising organization and across the business
- Experience collaborating with engineering and architecture teams to influence and contribute to the system design of key advertising components
- Experience ensuring system design decisions balance business requirements, technical feasibility, performance, and long-term maintainability
- Experience driving architectural reviews and support design of distributed, low-latency systems to handle real-time ad delivery
What the job involves
- We’re looking for a skilled and experienced Technical Program Manager to support our Advertising Product and Engineering team
- In this role, you will lead the execution of complex, cross-functional programs that drive the development of advertising features, systems and data products
- You will coordinate work across engineering, product, data science, and cross-company and external partners to deliver scalable, privacy-compliant solutions in areas like targeting, attribution, bidding, and measurement
- As a TPM, you’ll play a key role in influencing system design, driving architectural alignment, and ensuring program goals are met on time
- You'll manage multiple initiatives simultaneously, working with global and remote teams, and provide clear updates to stakeholders
- Manage roadmaps for ad tech and data platform initiatives, ensuring alignment with business goals, technical feasibility, and compliance requirements
- Build and maintain strong relationships with internal stakeholders, and external partners to ensure smooth execution and alignment
- Manage communication of technical requirements, changes in project scope using structured verification and change control processes
- Report progress, escalate risks, and highlight key achievements to management and relevant partners as needed
- Drive architectural alignment and coordinate engineering teams across orgs to deliver scalable ad features such as targeting, attribution, and real-time bidding
- Ensure compliance with data governance policies and privacy regulations (e.g., GDPR, CCPA) throughout all advertising and data initiatives
- Manage system risks and dependencies, communicate timely among Eng managers, PMs and leaders and mitigate technical delivery risks
- Maintain comprehensive project documentation, ensuring traceability, transparency, and operational continuity
- Continuously refine delivery processes and optimize workflows across engineering, data science, and product management teams
Our take
Mozilla develops a range of free and open-source software, with its most familiar product being Firefox. Operated with a mission-driven, not0for-profit ethos, Mozilla champions online privacy, open standards and user-choice.
Beyond Firefox, Mozilla has focused on privacy forward offerings such as Mozilla VPN, which allows users to browse securely without being tracked. The company has also streamlined its product portfolio to concentrate on initiatives that align closely with its core mission, ensuring resources are dedicated to improving user experiences while fostering safer, more open digital environments.
Alongside this, its impact extends into the developer and tech community, having played a pivotal role in the creation of Rust, a systems programming language celebrated for its speed and efficiency. With a loyal user base, ongoing innovation, and a clear commitment to privacy and open-source principles, Mozilla remains an influential player in the technology landscape.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
12% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Apr 2018
$1.2m
GRANT
Jan 2005
$0.3m
ANGEL
Total funding: $3.5m
Company benefits
- Health and wellness: Mozilla covers medical, dental and vision plan premiums at 100% for U.S. and Canadian employees. Our offerings give you the options you need to manage your health — and your family’s — the way you want.
- Mental health: Mental health is as important as our physical health. That’s why Mozilla’s health benefits include therapy and coaching sessions to make sure our people have access to the care they need.
- Time away: With all of life’s demands, time away from work to disconnect and recharge is essential. In addition to country-specific holidays (12 in the U.S. and Canada), vacation and sick time start accruing right away (specifics vary by country). Everyone also takes a pause together on quarterly all-company wellness days, plus you get to celebrate the most personal holiday of all: your birthday.
- Parental leave: While Mozilla’s parental leave policies vary globally, our U.S. and Canadian-based employees can look forward to 26 weeks of paid leave for childbearing parents and 12 weeks of paid leave for non-childbearing parents.
- Financial: Mozilla is a private company, so our compensation isn’t tied to stock options or equity plans. Instead, we offer generous, performance-based bonus plans to all regular employees to underscore that we share in our success as one team. As for retirement savings for US and Canadian employees, Mozilla contributes a percentage of your eligible base salary each year to the 401(k) Plan/RRSP (regardless of whether you contribute or not), with 100% vesting.
- Learning and development: We’re big believers in learning by doing, and we also want to invest in your education and development beyond your role. Every employee is eligible for an annual professional development budget. Mozillians can put it toward technical or management training, certifications, conferences and more.
- Help when you need it: Life is full of surprises; that’s why it’s important to be prepared. Mozilla provides Life/AD&D and Short and Long Term Disability insurance (offerings may vary by locale) to ensure that you and your family will have a safety net in place should you ever need it.
- Plus a bit more: A few other benefits include a quarterly wellbeing stipend (to use on those things just for you), an employee referral bonus, internet reimbursement if you’re remote, and a budget for office essentials to make working remotely ergonomically comfortable.
Company HQ
Rincon Hill, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Laura Chambers
(CEO)Alongside serving as the CEO at Mozilla, Laura is an Executive Fellow at Harvard Business School. Previously, she was the CEO and PResident at Willow Innovation, Director at Patelco Credit Union, and General Manager of Core Hosts & Community at Airbnb.
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