Director, Product & Privacy Legal

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

Mozilla is seeking a seasoned legal leader to head our Product & Privacy Legal teams. This pivotal role involves managing a team of highly skilled and experienced senior legal professionals and driving strategic legal support across a rapidly evolving line of products, to enable innovation and protect our users in line with Mozilla’s mission. This role will report to the Vice President, Legal. 

What you’ll do: 

• Manage and foster the professional growth of a high-performing team of senior product and privacy professionals.  
• Actively build strong relationships and cross-functional alignment on privacy and product issues, balancing legal risk, product goals, and user trust.
• Be a trusted advisor to Mozilla’s leadership, including executives in Product, Engineering, Ads, Data, and Marketing.
• Collaborate closely with colleagues on the Legal & Policy teams on the intersection between our product and privacy work and our policy, competition, commercial, M&A, and employment matters.
• Set the strategic vision for the Product & Privacy Legal teams, aligning legal support with Mozilla’s product and business priorities and scaling Mozilla’s privacy compliance program. 
• Provide leadership in evaluating and improving legal processes and guidance related to product development and privacy operations.
• Be a mentor and role model, supporting the learning and professional development of all members of the Legal team as one of its senior leaders. 

What you’ll bring:

• J.D. degree and membership in a state bar with good standing
• 10+ years relevant experience, including being in-house at a technology company focused on counseling business clients through the product development lifecycle on product and privacy issues  
• 5+ years experience as a people manager, with demonstrated ability to manage senior legal professionals with deep expertise and experience
• Excellent collaborator who builds internal alignment across subject matter experts to deliver multifaceted legal advice regarding privacy, IP, consumer protection, security, commercial, and other legal issues
• Proven ability to build deep, trust-based relationships and gain the confidence of senior leaders across the organization
• Skilled at navigating change and ambiguity, demonstrated ability to provide direction amidst evolving priorities 
• Experience with Ads or AI technologies a plus

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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ReqID: R2815