Director, Policy Strategy

While this is a remote US-based role, we are particularly seeking candidates located on the East Coast (US) to align with team collaboration hours.

Why Mozilla?

Mozilla Corporation is the non-profit-backed technology company that has shaped the internet for the better over the last 25 years. We make pioneering brands like Firefox, the privacy-minded web browser, and Pocket, a service for keeping up with the best content online. Now, with more than 225 million people around the world using our products each month, we’re shaping the next 25 years of technology and helping to reclaim an internet built for people, not companies. Our work focuses on diverse areas including AI, social media, security and more. And we’re doing this while never losing our focus on our core mission – to make the internet better for people.

The Mozilla Corporation is wholly owned by the non-profit 501(c) Mozilla Foundation. This means we aren’t beholden to any shareholders — only to our mission. Along with thousands of volunteer contributors and collaborators all over the world, Mozillians craft, build and distribute open-source software that enables people to enjoy the internet on their terms.

Mozilla is seeking a Director of Product Policy Strategy to lead the intersection of product development, policy, and regulation. This role ensures Mozilla’s products are backed by forward-looking policy strategies while influencing global debates on how technology should serve people and society.

Reporting to the Vice President of Global Public Policy, the Director will:

• Lead a small global team of product policy experts.
• Collaborate closely with Mozilla’s regional government relations leads in the US and Europe.
• Partner with cross-functional colleagues in Product, Engineering, Legal, Communications, and Marketing.
  

The Director will drive the planning and development of policy positions on core product concerns in areas such as privacy, competition, advertising, AI, and security.

Policy Strategy & Leadership

• Identify the regulatory trends that should be a priority for our work which align with our long term product vision and Manifesto.
• In partnership with the regional government relations teams, manage multi-stakeholder campaigns from conception through execution, aligning product policy advocacy with Mozilla’s ethos and product goals, specifically around privacy-preserving advertising, security, responsible AI, choice and competition.

Product Partnership

• Serve as a strategic advisor to product, engineering, legal, marketing and comms teams, embedding policy understanding and considerations into product design, roadmaps, and launches.
• Identify policy risks and opportunities early in the product lifecycle and translate complex technical concepts into policy narratives and advocacy positions for internal and external use.
  

External Engagement & Influence

• Represent Mozilla in high-level discussions with policymakers, regulators, and civil society.
  Build trusted partnerships across the global tech policy ecosystem, including with peer companies, industry associations and civil society.
• Drive Mozilla’s thought leadership through public speaking, media commentary, and publications.
  

Team Leadership

• Lead, mentor, and grow a small distributed team of product policy professionals.
  

• Subject matter expertise and experience in one or more priority policy areas for Mozilla: privacy, competition, advertising, and AI - and demonstrate the ability to get quickly up to speed on others.
• Degree in public policy, law, international affairs, or related field.
• 12+ years of leadership experience in technology policy roles (public or private sector).
• Proven track record of influencing policy outcomes in multiple jurisdictions.
• Strong strategic thinker with experience shaping product roadmaps in light of policy environments.
• Excellent communicator with ability to translate technical concepts for policymakers and vice versa.

What you’ll get:

• Generous performance-based bonus plans to all eligible employees - we share in our success as one team
• Rich medical, dental, and vision coverage
• Generous retirement contributions with 100% immediate vesting (regardless of whether you contribute)
• Quarterly all-company wellness days where everyone takes a pause together
• Country specific holidays plus a day off for your birthday
• One-time home office stipend
• Annual professional development budget
• Quarterly well-being stipend
• Considerable paid parental leave
• Employee referral bonus program
• Other benefits (life/AD&D, disability, EAP, etc.varies by country)

About Mozilla 

Mozilla exists to build the Internet as a public resource accessible to all because we believe that open and free is better than closed and controlled. When you work at Mozilla, you give yourself a chance to make a difference in the lives of Web users everywhere. And you give us a chance to make a difference in your life every single day. Join us to work on the Web as the platform and help create more opportunity and innovation for everyone online.

Commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging

Mozilla understands that valuing diverse creative practices and forms of knowledge are crucial to and enrich the company’s core mission.  We encourage applications from everyone, including members of all equity-seeking communities, such as (but certainly not limited to) women, racialized and Indigenous persons, persons with disabilities, persons of all sexual orientations, gender identities, and expressions.

We will ensure that qualified individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment, as appropriate. Please contact us at [email protected] to request accommodation.

We are an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race (including hairstyle and texture), religion (including religious grooming and dress practices), gender, gender identity, gender expression, color, national origin, pregnancy, ancestry, domestic partner status, disability, sexual orientation, age, genetic predisposition, medical condition, marital status, citizenship status, military or veteran status, or any other basis covered by applicable laws.  Mozilla will not tolerate discrimination or harassment based on any of these characteristics or any other unlawful behavior, conduct, or purpose.

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Req ID: R2974