Strategy Program Manager, Mozilla
$165-285k
Salary dependent on location
Internet software for people, not profit
Job no longer available
Internet software for people, not profit
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$165-285k
Salary dependent on location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To ensure the internet remains open and accessible.
Role
Who you are
- Minimum 8 years of relevant experience, including experience in strategy or operations roles
- Strong business sense, with extensive experience in business analysis, commercial, strategy, and/or integration roles
- Superior communication skills, capable of influencing at all levels of an organization, from team members to the executive board
- Outstanding leadership abilities, with a track record of mentoring and developing others
- Strategic mentality with a curiosity about innovation, problem-solving, and critical thinking
- Ability to tie the needs of the business to the mission of a company, to work in both crisis and non-crisis situations and to transform a company or business unit
What the job involves
- This is a new role reporting to our SVP, Strategy & Operations, to accelerate the growth and impact of Mozilla’s existing products while setting the foundation for new product development through strategy development, planning & governance
- Strategic Program Management: Plan, manage, and coordinate initiatives and efforts, ensuring alignment with objectives at a more strategic level
- Systems thinking & problem solving: Ability to frame problems well, identify root causes, drive insights to improve the system, and support decision-makers in strategic and leadership roles to understand and address complex problems
- Partner Collaboration: Act as a liaison between operational units, encouraging a culture of data-driven decision-making
- Strategic Frameworks: Develop frameworks that simplify complex business questions and facilitate decision-making processes
- Influence & Communication: Use outstanding communication skills to influence essential team members, including executives, in favor of critical initiatives
- Project Management: Own and lead key strategy projects from inception to completion
- Organizational Change: Facilitate the smooth implementation of pivotal initiatives by collaborating with cross-functional 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.
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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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