Engineering Manager, Mozilla
Firefox Desktop OMC
+ Generous performance-based bonus plans
Internet software for people, not profit
Be an early applicant
Internet software for people, not profit
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
+ Generous performance-based bonus plans
1001+ employees
Company mission
To ensure the internet remains open and accessible.
Role
Who you are
- We’re looking for a leader who excels at building strong teams, driving technical excellence, and shaping innovative user experiences that influence how people interact with the web
- 4+ years leading engineers in a software development environment and working across multiple distributed teams
- Software engineering background that empowers you to drive technical decisions within the team and engage with engineers at all levels of seniority to triage, prioritize and implement
- Solid understanding of web technologies (JavaScript, React, HTML, and CSS)
- Proven track record successfully leading and shipping sophisticated user facing experiences on time in a loosely structured environment
- Strong communication and ability to develop positive relationships with others, regardless of their rank or role
- Passion to resolve problems, manage risk, lead change, and facilitate collaborative decision-making
- Experience effectively communicating with senior leadership and advocating for engineering priorities
- Desire to grow and learn as a manager, grow and develop others, and get results through others rather than personal technical proficiency
- Able to hire, mentor, empower, develop, and delegate to geographically distributed team members with different skills from your own
- Commitment to our values:
- Welcoming differences
- Being relationship-minded
- Practicing responsible participation
- Having grit
Desirable
- Experience in guiding engineering teams in building AI-driven features with reliability and security
- Experience with delivering AI front-end experiences to user-facing products
- Understanding of programming languages (C++, RUST) and relational database concepts (SQL)
- Experience leading multiple teams and/or driving multiple large scale concurrent projects
- Product management experience
- Experience working in open source environments or contributing to large open source projects
What the job involves
- The Firefox team is a global community of engineers who care deeply about delivering the fastest, friendliest, most usable browser possible
- We are responsible for making the things you see in the browser work securely, quickly, and well
- Working in the open is the norm, and we contribute to the code driving the Firefox browser on a number of desktop platforms - Windows, Linux, and macOS
- Our focus is on implementing and fixing things in Firefox as well as helping other teams make it excellent for our users
- The Firefox Onboarding Messaging and Communication (OMC) Frontend Engineering Manager leads a geographically distributed team across North American time zones responsible for Firefox’s in-product messaging surfaces
- The OMC team owns the messaging system that helps onboard new users and keeps existing users informed about new features and capabilities within the browser
- In close partnership with Product, the team experiments with message content and orchestration to deliver thoughtful, well-timed experiences that improve engagement and user value
- Drive initiatives to deliver value to our users via Messaging and features across Firefox while ensuring the software your team delivers is high quality, monitored, and maintainable
- Help the team navigate trade-offs and drive alignment in a fast-paced, evolving field; balancing quick delivery with thoughtful, long-term approaches across a portfolio of Messaging experiences in the browser
- Communicate your team’s goals, the scope and risks of your projects, and own the delivery of initiatives on clear timelines
- Identify, build and iterate on engineering processes that support a high performing team
- Engage regularly 1-1 with your team to discuss both technical work and professional development; provide direct and honest feedback about their individual performances
- Lead hiring efforts
- Ensure developers are properly supported and empowered throughout the developer lifecycle
- Create an inclusive environment which engages and challenges your team members
- Work collaboratively with many teams including Product, UX, QA, Operations, and Data Science to ensure roadmap success
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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