Senior Staff Product Designer, Mozilla

New Products

$138-237k

Salary dependent on location.

Senior and Expert level
Remote in US
Mozilla

Designs, builds, and distributes internet software

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Mozilla

Designs, builds, and distributes internet software

1001+ employees

B2CEnterpriseInternal toolsPrivacySaaS

Be an early applicant

$138-237k

Salary dependent on location.

Senior and Expert level
Remote in US

1001+ employees

B2CEnterpriseInternal toolsPrivacySaaS

Company mission

To make sure that the internet remains accessible, open, and transparent to everyone.

Role

Who you are

  • You should be comfortable designing across all stages of the early product lifecycle from discovery through launch and initial growth
  • We are looking for someone who thrives in an entrepreneurial setting, has startup experience and a track record of delivering, and can navigate the unique challenges of building 0 to 1 products
  • You have 7+ years of product design experience, with recent experience preferably in a startup or entrepreneurial environment
  • You have a proven track record to design intuitive and visually appealing user interfaces
  • You have a strong command of customer discovery, hypothesis validation, and rapid user testing approaches
  • You have strong fluency in modern design and prototyping tools and can build annotated and detailed mock-ups from low-fidelity to pixel perfect designs, landing pages, and even the occasional ad
  • You've balanced user experience, business needs, technical feasibility, and time-to-market to determine the best product design
  • You can communicate clearly about your designs at the idea phase through the development phase and can advocate for your decisions
  • You love working in a fast-paced environment, improving your leadership and design skills, and believe that design is important to any product's success
  • You can work efficiently with a geographically distributed team
  • Commitment to our values:
  • Welcoming differences
  • Being relationship-minded
  • Practicing responsible participation
  • Having grit

Desirable

  • Familiarity with accessibility standards and best practices
  • Experience designing for multiple platforms (web, mobile, desktop)
  • Experience in one of the following areas: enterprise software, family tech, or developer tooling
  • Comfort with designing interfaces that enable an AI future

What the job involves

  • Mozilla’s New Product group is a fast-paced organization of entrepreneurs and entrepreneurial-minded individuals
  • We build new products from the ground up, explore methods of investment and acquisition, and experiment quickly to solve exciting problems for people that can form the basis of new Mozilla businesses
  • As a Senior Staff Product Designer, you will play a crucial role in a small, dynamic team, often beginning with just two individuals, to explore and bring new concepts to life through rapid iterations and prototyping
  • You will be validating assumptions, testing hypotheses, and working closely with product managers, engineers, and other collaborators to go to market with new product offerings
  • Product Vision & Strategy: Partner with product leadership to shape the product vision and strategy, bringing a design-driven perspective to strategic decisions. Advocate for design thinking ensuring that user-centric solutions align with business goals and market opportunities
  • Customer Discovery: Conduct market research, customer interviews, user testing, and competitive analysis to identify unmet needs, validate product ideas, and advise potential solutions
  • Lead and own the Design and User Journey: Be responsible for everything from sketches to prototypes to high-fidelity designs. You should feel comfortable not just defining the product vision alongside your product and engineering peers, but making that vision a reality
  • Advocate for the User: Be a voice and champion for your users throughout every step of the design process
  • Continuous Learning: Stay current with industry trends and standard methodologies to improve the design process and product quality continually
  • Mentorship: Mentor designers and lead by example to uplevel design thinking at Mozilla

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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back within 2 weeks

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 values

  • We welcome differences
  • We are relationship-minded
  • We practice responsible participation
  • We have grit

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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