Program Manager, Mozilla
AI 360
$86.6-121.6k
Target salary offer: $89,265 - $111,581. Salary dependent on location
Senior and Expert level
Remote from US
Internet software for people, not profit
Job no longer available
Internet software for people, not profit
1001+ employees
B2CEnterpriseInternal toolsPrivacySaaS
Job no longer available
$86.6-121.6k
Target salary offer: $89,265 - $111,581. Salary dependent on location
Senior and Expert level
Remote from US
1001+ employees
B2CEnterpriseInternal toolsPrivacySaaS
Company mission
To ensure the internet remains open and accessible.
Role
Who you are
- 8-10 years experience in a program or product management within a technical environment
- Experience as an entrepreneur or in a startup
- Ability to work as an Individual Contributor, as well as managing projects where the collaborators don’t report to you
- Ability to prototype projects quickly and iterate towards a big goal
- Demonstrated success in developing and managing programs in line with key strategic objectives
- Extensive experience in project management
- Experience tracking projects using various tools, such as Asana, Trello, Airtable (No specific tool experience required.)
- Strong interpersonal, written, and verbal communication skills. Ability to collaborate with a range of people
- Ability to facilitate conversations with differing perspectives and priorities, while connecting proposed work and outcomes to engagement strategy when required
- Bias towards action, ability to work fast
- Ability to track, coordinate, and prioritize multiple projects on fast-paced schedules
- Ability to adapt to last-minute asks and changing timelines and priorities with flexibility and good humor
- Experience with budget development and oversight
- Meeting design and facilitation skills
- Experience in design or web development tools a big plus
What the job involves
- In this role, you will develop effective project and program management systems for AI 360, a crosscutting program that acts as the connective tissue among all the AI activities happening across Mozilla Foundation, Mozilla Corporation, Mozilla Ventures and Mozilla AI
- AI 360 aims to also explain this set of activities to the world, make links between them and measure their collective impact and progress over time. As part of this mandate, you will help lead events and programs intended to engage leaders in the open source and Trustworthy AI community including startups, non profit labs, civil society, academia and tech partners
- Reporting to the Chief of Staff in Mozilla’s Office of the President, you will work closely with other program managers leading Pan Mozilla workstreams
- Specifically, you will provide strategic support to the Senior Advisor to the President and Lead of AI 360 in running the AI360 workstream
- Program Management:
- Collaborate with the AI 360 team to develop the 2024 Pan Mozilla AI Program plan outlining activities designed to increase collaboration and improve messaging
- Lead planning, systems design, and implementing team processes related to AI360
- Coordinate activities across AI360 activities to ensure strategic alignment with team and organizational priorities
- Lead, develop and be responsible for the bottom up rollup of AI work across Mozilla, as well as budget and KPIs for the project
- Handle the AI inventory and help create connections among various teams working on AI. Visualize these and disseminate updates to the larger org
- Help draft metrics framework that collects progress and impact of both Pan Mozilla AI activities and AI related products, programs and services within portfolio companies. Work with leadership to develop and coordinate program budgets that align with strategic objectives and team goals
- Collaborate with other Program Managers and the Chief of Staff to develop and implement strategies and systems for how we apply data and metrics to evaluate the impact of our programs
- Work with the team and across the organization to supervise progress against program goals, and facilitate program reporting and evaluation
- Project Management:
- Coordinate and supervise key projects with the AI 360 team
- Assist various teams in creating regular updates and tracking impact of their AI work with minimal overhead
- Supervise key deadlines, deliverables, and dependencies within the team
- Liaise with the Project Manager, Engagement in project planning and delivery
- Prepare project updates for leadership
- Develop effective project management systems and documentation
- Track budget expenditures across projects and assure compliance with all Mozilla policies and procedures
- Develop updates and presentations for executives and broader audiences through reports, presentations, blogs, etc
- Community Building and External Relations:
- Help develop the map of the market and community of high level collaborators working on open source and trustworthy AI across industry, academia, government and civil society
- Plan and organize public events designed to engage with this community
- Support the development of a Mozilla AI Community Council capturing high level experts and partners. Support for the AI 360 lead as well as the President and CEO in implementing this plan
- Respond to inquiries from potential external partners and assess fit/opportunities
- Lead distribution of key organizational + team publications and programs to external partners
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
Led by a woman
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.
Share this job
View 58 more jobs at Mozilla