Staff Engineering Program Manager, Mozilla
$138-217k
Salary Dependent on Location + Performance-based bonus plans
Designs, builds, and distributes internet software
Be an early applicant
Designs, builds, and distributes internet software
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$138-217k
Salary Dependent on Location + Performance-based bonus plans
1001+ employees
Company mission
To make sure that the internet remains accessible, open, and transparent to everyone.
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 creates and manages a range of free-to-use software products. Their most well-known product is Firefox, the fourth most popular internet browser in the world. Mozilla is a not-for-profit with a focus on promoting online privacy. The company has a published manifesto outlining its commitment to keeping a balance between commercial profit and public benefit.
The companies other products include Bugzilla, a bug management platform, and Pocket, an award-winning digital content filing service. In direct odds with Google, Mozilla has recently launched a new product Mozilla VPN. The VPN or virtual private network enables users to browse the internet without being tracked. Companies such as Google rely on tracking user behavior online to target them with advertising.
Mozilla was also instrumental in creating the programming language Rust, which is admired for its brevity. Rust uses roughly half the amount of code as C++ to produce the same results.
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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, Dental, and Vision Insurance
- Life Insurance + Accidental Death & Dismemberment
- Short-Term Disability and Long-Term Disability Insurance
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- Retirement Plan contributions
- 20 Paid Time Off days per year (prorated) + your birthday
- Company Holidays + Shutdown
- Wellness budget
- Reimbursement for professional development (up to $3,000/year)
- Industry-leading paid parental leave (up to 26 weeks of fully paid leave for childbearing parents and up to 12 weeks for non-childbearing parents)
- Flexible work environment (nearly half of Mozillians work remotely)
- A work setup including the latest hardware and software of your choice
Company HQ
Rincon Hill, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Mitchell Baker
(CEO & Chairwoman)Mitchell worked as a lawyer and at Netscape Communications before co-founding Mozilla in 2003. They have served as Chairwoman of Mozilla Foundation since then, and CEO as of April 2020.
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