Director, Product & Privacy Legal
Join Mozilla, a non-profit-backed technology company, as our Director, Product & Privacy Legal. In this pivotal role, you will lead our Product & Privacy Legal teams, driving strategic legal support across our product lines to enable innovation and protect our users. You will report to the Vice President, Legal, and collaborate with senior leaders across the organization to build strong relationships and cross-functional alignment on privacy and product issues.
Mozilla Corporation is the organization behind pioneering brands like Firefox, the privacy-minded web browser, and Pocket, a service for keeping up with the best content online. With over 225 million people using our products each month, we are shaping the next 25 years of technology and helping to reclaim an internet built for people, not companies.
Key Responsibilities:
- Manage and foster the professional growth of a high-performing team of senior product and privacy professionals.
- Build strong relationships and cross-functional alignment on privacy and product issues, balancing legal risk, product goals, and user trust.
- Act as 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.
- Mentor and role model, supporting the learning and professional development of all members of the Legal team as one of its senior leaders.
Requirements:
- J.D. degree and membership in a state bar with good standing.
- 10+ years of 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 of 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 is a plus.
What We Offer:
- Generous performance-based bonus plans to all eligible employees.
- Rich medical, dental, and vision coverage.
- Generous retirement contributions with 100% immediate vesting.
- 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.
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. 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.