Principal Product Manager, Mozilla

New Products

$184-314k

Salary dependent on location.

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

$184-314k

Salary dependent on location.

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 leading product 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
  • 9+ years of product experience, with recent experience developing 0 to 1 products preferably in a startup or entrepreneurial environment
  • Excellent at big-picture thinking, solving problems, and inventing what’s next
  • Strong product sense - the ability to understand, communicate, and take action on what makes a product great
  • A user-centric mentality with a passion for solving real problems through technology
  • Excellent communication and leadership skills, capable of rallying teams around a shared vision
  • Proficiency in building hypotheses, experimenting, and developing success metrics to inform product decisions
  • You've balanced user experience, business needs, technical feasibility, and time-to-market to determine the best product
  • An understanding and fluency in developing early traction through innovative go-to-market strategies
  • You can communicate clearly about your product concept from 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 product skills
  • You can work efficiently with a geographically distributed team
  • Commitment to our values:
  • Welcoming differences
  • Being relationship-minded
  • Practicing responsible participation
  • Having grit

Desirable

  • Experience founding a startup
  • Experience in open-source projects or familiarity with the Mozilla community
  • Technical proficiency in UX design, front-end/back-end development, or AI/ML
  • Experience in one or more of the following areas: enterprise software, family tech, developer tooling, or AI

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 Principal Product Manager, you will lead a small dynamic team, often beginning with just two people, to explore and bring new concepts to life through rapid iterations and prototyping
  • Identify a new Concept: Identify compelling problems to solve and ideate on potential solutions
  • Product Vision & Strategy: Lead and own the end-to-end product lifecycle for new product initiatives, from concept through launch, early traction, and iteration. Set clear goals for product success, ensuring alignment with Mozilla’s mission and strategic vision
  • Customer Discovery: Conduct market research and user interviews to identify unmet needs and validate product ideas
  • Cross-functional Collaboration: Work closely with cross-functional teams to define product requirements, prioritize features, and deliver high-quality products that align with user needs and business goals
  • Data-Driven Decisions: Continuously gather and analyze qualitative and quantitative data to measure product performance, iterate on features, and drive improvements
  • Effective Communication: Clearly articulate product plans, benefits, and outcomes to a wide range of audiences, including internal partners, leadership, employees, and users

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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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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