Staff Engineering Program Manager

Summary

Join Mozilla Corporation, a non-profit-backed technology company, as a Technical Program Manager to support the Advertising Product and Engineering team. Lead the execution of complex programs driving the development of advertising features, systems, and data products. Coordinate work across various teams and external partners to deliver scalable, privacy-compliant solutions. Influence system design, drive architectural alignment, and ensure program goals are met. Manage multiple initiatives simultaneously, working with global and remote teams. Success requires strong program leadership, risk management, and understanding of how technical and business priorities intersect in advertising. This role offers the opportunity to make a difference in the lives of web users and contribute to Mozilla's mission of making the internet better for people.

Requirements

• 10+ years of technical program management experience in ad delivery and the ad tech ecosystem
• Experience managing software engineering programs end to end
• Excellent interpersonal skills to juggle many activities without losing sight of the highest-priority items
• Ability to understand complex concepts and make reasoned decisions with sometimes imperfect data
• Good communication skills, relationship-building, and negotiation skills
• Ability to communicate and interact with leaders within the advertising organization and across the business
• Experience collaborating with engineering and architecture teams to influence and contribute to the system design of key advertising components
• Experience ensuring system design decisions balance business requirements, technical feasibility, performance, and long-term maintainability
• Experience driving architectural reviews and support design of distributed, low-latency systems to handle real-time ad delivery

Responsibilities

• Manage roadmaps for ad tech and data platform initiatives, ensuring alignment with business goals, technical feasibility, and compliance requirements
• Build and maintain strong relationships with internal stakeholders, and external partners to ensure smooth execution and alignment
• Manage communication of technical requirements, changes in project scope using structured verification and change control processes
• Report progress, escalate risks, and highlight key achievements to management and relevant partners as needed
• Drive architectural alignment and coordinate engineering teams across orgs to deliver scalable ad features such as targeting, attribution, and real-time bidding
• Ensure compliance with data governance policies and privacy regulations (e.g., GDPR, CCPA) throughout all advertising and data initiatives
• Manage system risks and dependencies, communicate timely among Eng managers, PMs and leaders and mitigate technical delivery risks
• Maintain comprehensive project documentation, ensuring traceability, transparency, and operational continuity
• Continuously refine delivery processes and optimize workflows across engineering, data science, and product management teams

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)