Principal Product Manager

Summary

Join Mozilla's New Product group as a Principal Product Manager and lead a team in developing innovative products from concept to launch. You will identify compelling problems, conduct market research, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and make data-driven decisions to ensure product success. This role requires 7+ years of product experience, including experience developing 0 to 1 products, preferably in a startup environment. You should possess strong product sense, excellent communication and leadership skills, and a user-centric mentality. Mozilla offers a generous compensation and benefits package, including performance-based bonuses, comprehensive health coverage, retirement contributions, wellness days, and professional development opportunities.

Requirements

• 7+ years of product experience, with recent experience developing 0 to 1 products preferably in a startup or entrepreneurial environment
• Experience with enterprise or B2B software, including engaging directly with customers
• 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

Responsibilities

• 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

Preferred Qualifications

• 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

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)