Staff Visual Designer

Summary

Join Mozilla's Firefox UX team as a Staff Product Designer and lead UX efforts for major initiatives in Firefox Mobile, focusing on visual craft and interaction design. Translate user needs and business goals into polished, intuitive experiences. Design and prototype mobile experiences that support Firefox’s core values. Collaborate with product, engineering, and research teams. Advocate for mobile-first UX best practices and contribute to the Design System. Support product strategy from concept to completion. This role requires 7+ years of UX design experience with a strong mobile-first design portfolio and deep expertise in native design languages for Android and iOS. You will collaborate closely with cross-functional teams and present design concepts effectively. Mozilla offers a generous compensation and benefits package, including performance-based bonuses, comprehensive health coverage, retirement contributions, wellness days, paid time off, a home office stipend, a professional development budget, a well-being stipend, and considerable paid parental leave.

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience in UX design, with a strong portfolio showcasing mobile-first design work
• Deep expertise in native design languages, with a strong focus on Android and complementary experience in iOS. Well-versed in platform-specific patterns, guidelines, and best practices to deliver intuitive, high-quality mobile experiences
• Strong ability to balance user needs, business objectives, and technical feasibility in design decisions
• Experience designing for privacy, security, and accessibility in mobile applications
• Proficiency with Figma
• Highly collaborative
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Comfortable presenting and articulating design decisions
• Interest in working with geographically distributed cross-functional team members
• Passionate about building products with people’s needs at the center
• Strong collaboration and communication skills, with the ability to present design concepts and advocate for UX decisions with cross-functional stakeholders
• Experience working with design systems and contributing to their evolution
• Ability to work in a fast-paced, iterative, and remote-first environment
• Ability and interest in learning new technologies quickly

Responsibilities

• Lead UX efforts for major initiatives in Firefox Mobile, with a strong focus on visual craft and interaction design. You'll translate user needs and business goals into polished, intuitive experiences that feel native and high-quality on every touchpoint
• Design and prototype intuitive, accessible, and visually compelling mobile experiences that support Firefox’s core values of privacy, security, and performance
• Create design storyboards, wireframes, mockups, and prototypes to communicate intent and for conducting qualitative and quantitative research
• Collaborate with product, engineering, and research teams to align design decisions with business objectives, technical feasibility, and user needs
• Advocate for mobile-first UX best practices, ensuring high usability across different devices and screen sizes
• Contribute to and evolve the Design System, ensuring consistency and usability across mobile platforms
• Support product strategy from concept to completion for critical user journeys and finding opportunities

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with browser UX design or working on consumer-facing products with large user bases
• Deep understanding of developing products that prioritize accessibility
• Familiarity with Jira and/or other engineering and product management tools
• Passion for open-source, privacy-first, and ethical technology
• Experience with design thinking and lean software development
• Knowledge of user research methodologies and when to apply them

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)