Staff Engineering Program Manager

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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. 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 design, build and distribute open-source software that enables people to enjoy the internet on their terms.

About this team and role:

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. Success in this role requires strong program leadership, risk management, and a deep understanding of how technical and business priorities intersect in advertising.

What you’ll do: 

• 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.

What you’ll bring: 

• 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 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 hiringaccommodation@mozilla.com 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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