Director, Product & Privacy Legal

Summary

Join Mozilla, a non-profit-backed technology company, as a seasoned legal leader to head our Product & Privacy Legal teams. Manage a team of senior legal professionals, providing strategic legal support across products. Build strong relationships and cross-functional alignment on privacy and product issues. Serve as a trusted advisor to Mozilla’s leadership. Collaborate with Legal & Policy teams. Set the strategic vision for the Product & Privacy Legal teams, aligning legal support with Mozilla’s product and business priorities. Provide leadership in evaluating and improving legal processes and guidance related to product development and privacy operations. Mentor and support the professional development of all members of the Legal team.

Requirements

• 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

Responsibilities

• 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

Preferred Qualifications

Experience with Ads or AI technologies a plus

Benefits

• 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)