Front End Engineering Manager, Firefox Desktop - Mozilla

About 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.

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 Role

The Firefox team is a community of engineers who care deeply about delivering the fastest, friendliest, most usable browser possible. A Frontend Engineering Manager directs a team of geographically distributed engineers to constantly drive improvements to the Firefox Desktop experience through innovations and enhancements to the browser user interface.

What You’ll Do

• Drive initiatives to deliver value to our users ensuring the software your team delivers is high quality, highly available, monitored, and maintainable.
• Help the team navigate trade-offs and drive alignment in a fast-paced field; balancing quick delivery with thoughtful, long-term approaches across a portfolio of user experiences in the browser.
• Communicate your team’s goals, the scope and risks of your projects, and own the delivery of initiatives on clear timelines.
• Identify, build and iterate on engineering processes that support a high performing team.
• Engage regularly 1-1 with your team to discuss both technical work and professional development; provide direct and honest feedback about individual performance.
• Ensure developers are properly supported and empowered throughout the developer lifecycle.
• Create an inclusive environment which engages and challenges your team members.
• Work collaboratively with many teams including Product, UX, QA, Operations, and Data Science.

What You’ll Bring

• 4+ years leading engineers in a software development environment and working across multiple distributed teams.
• Software engineering background that empowers you to drive technical decisions within the team and engage with engineers at all levels of seniority to triage, prioritize, and implement.
• Experience leading multiple concurrent projects.
• Previous experience working on frontend platform initiatives e.g. design systems and frontend architectural improvements.
• Track record of delivering front-end experiences to user-facing products.
• Hands-on experience with web technologies (JavaScript/TypeScript, HTML, and CSS).
• Proven track record successfully leading and shipping sophisticated user-facing experiences on time, using data to inform timelines.
• Strong communication skills and ability to develop positive relationships with others, regardless of their rank or role.
• Passion to resolve problems, manage risk, lead change, and facilitate collaborative decision-making.
• Experience effectively communicating with senior leadership and advocating for engineering priorities.
• Desire to grow and learn as a manager, develop others, and get results through others rather than personal technical proficiency.
• Ability to hire, mentor, empower, develop, and delegate to geographically distributed team members.
• Commitment to Mozilla's values: welcoming differences, being relationship-minded, practicing responsible participation, and having grit.

Bonus Points For

• Fostering the use of AI in Frontend engineering teams.
• Experience working in open source environments.