Staff Designer, Mozilla
$150-170k
+ Bonus
Internet software for people, not profit
Be an early applicant
Internet software for people, not profit
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$150-170k
+ Bonus
1001+ employees
Company mission
To ensure the internet remains open and accessible.
Role
Who you are
- 10+ years of professional experience in user experience and interface design, including leadership of complex, multi-stakeholder initiatives
- Demonstrated ability to operate strategically while delivering high-quality, hands-on design work
- Experience creating and evolving scalable design systems and interaction patterns across web, desktop, and/or mobile platforms
- Strong systems thinking, with the ability to connect journeys, architecture, and interface patterns into coherent experiences
- Experience planning and conducting user research and usability testing, translating insights into product decisions
- A portfolio demonstrating leadership across shipped work, including problem framing, decision rationale, collaboration, and measurable impact
- Experience mentoring designers and influencing cross-functional teams in distributed environments
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with comfort navigating ambiguity and driving clarity
Desirable
- Experience working in open-source or community-driven environments
- Public representation of design through talks, writing, or community engagement
- Fluency in multiple languages for collaboration across a global community
- Comfort contributing to light front-end implementation or code-based prototypes
- Deep empathy, with the ability to build trust, navigate conflict, and keep teams aligned under pressure
What the job involves
- As a Staff Designer, you will operate at a system level, shaping clear, connected experiences across our desktop, web, and mobile products
- You’ll partner closely with engineering and product leadership to define direction, establish shared frameworks, and lead complex initiatives from discovery through delivery
- This role combines strategic influence with hands-on execution
- You’ll identify system-wide opportunities, translate research and business context into scalable experience patterns, and drive cohesive, accessible design across platforms
- You’ll also elevate design craft across the organization by mentoring others and setting a high standard for quality, clarity, and usability
- This is a full-time, remote position working with colleagues across multiple regions and time zones
- Lead complex, cross-team design initiatives from problem framing and discovery through shipped outcomes
- Map end-to-end user journeys to identify system-level gaps and define scalable experience solutions
- Produce high-quality design artefacts, including flows, wireframes, prototypes, and documentation, that create alignment and enable confident implementation
- Shape experience frameworks, visual systems, and design standards that scale across platforms and teams
- Translate research, analytics, and business context into clear recommendations, actionable plans, and long-term experience strategy
- Lead and guide user research and usability testing efforts, synthesizing insights into practical product decisions
- Set and uphold a high bar for usability, accessibility, and visual craft, embedding inclusive design standards across products by default
- Facilitate planning sessions, design workshops, and design reviews that drive alignment and clarity
- Mentor designers and influence cross-functional partners to strengthen user-centered thinking and design quality
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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