Front End Engineering Manager, Firefox Desktop

<div class="gmail_default" style="font-size: small;"> <div> <p><strong>Why Mozilla?</strong></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Mozilla Corporation is the non-profit-backed technology company that has shaped the internet for the better over the last 25 years. We make pioneering brands like Firefox, the privacy-minded web browser. Now, with more than 225 million people around the world using our products each month, we’re shaping the next 25 years of technology and helping to reclaim an internet built for people, not companies. Our work focuses on diverse areas including AI, social media, security and more. And we’re doing this while never losing our focus on our core mission – to make the internet better for people.&nbsp;</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Mozilla Corporation is wholly owned by the non-profit 501(c) Mozilla Foundation. This means we aren’t beholden to any shareholders — only to our mission. Along with thousands of volunteer contributors and collaborators all over the world, Mozillians design, build and distribute </span><strong>open-source</strong><span style="font-weight: 400;"> software that enables people to enjoy the internet on their terms.&nbsp;</span></p> <p><strong>About this team and role:</strong></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Firefox team is a community of engineers who care deeply about delivering the fastest, friendliest, most usable browser possible. We are responsible for making the things you see in the browser work securely, quickly, and well!&nbsp; Working in the open is the norm, and we contribute to the code driving the Firefox browser on a number of desktop platforms - Windows, Linux, and macOS. Our focus is on implementing and fixing things in Firefox as well as helping other teams make it excellent for our users.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">A Frontend Engineering Manager directs a team of geographically distributed engineers to constantly drive improvements to Firefox Desktop experience through innovations and enhancements to the browser user interface in Firefox.&nbsp; We need a leader who is dedicated to building exceptional teams, creating innovative solutions, delivering quality software, and influencing how the world uses the internet.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Feel good about your work again! Pursue your future while working to protect the future of the internet for everyone, everywhere.</span></p> <p><strong>What you’ll do:&nbsp;</strong></p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Drive initiatives to deliver value to our users ensuring the software your team delivers is high quality, highly available, monitored, and maintainable.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Help the team navigate trade-offs and drive alignment in a fast-paced field; balancing quick delivery with thoughtful, long-term approaches across a portfolio of user experiences in the browser.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Communicate your team’s goals, the scope and risks of your projects, and own the delivery of initiatives on clear timelines.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Identify, build and iterate on engineering processes that support a high performing team.&nbsp;</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Engage regularly 1-1 with your team to discuss both technical work and professional development; provide direct and honest feedback about their individual performances</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Ensure developers are properly supported and empowered throughout the developer lifecycle.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Create an inclusive environment which engages and challenges your team members.&nbsp;</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Work collaboratively with many teams including Product, UX, QA, Operations, and Data Science.</span></li> </ul> <p><strong>What you’ll bring:&nbsp;</strong></p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">4+ years leading engineers in a software development environment and working across multiple distributed teams.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Software engineering background that empowers you to drive technical decisions within the team and engage with engineers at all levels of seniority to triage, prioritize and implement.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Experience leading multiple concurrent projects.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Previous experience working on frontend platform initiatives e.g. design systems and frontend architectural improvements.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Track record of delivering front-end experiences to user-facing products</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Hands-on experience with web technologies (JavaScript/TypeScript, HTML, and CSS).</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Proven track record successfully leading and shipping sophisticated user facing experiences on time, using data to inform timelines. .</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Strong communication and ability to develop positive relationships with others, regardless of their rank or role.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Passion to resolve problems, manage risk, lead change, and facilitate collaborative decision-making.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Experience effectively communicating with senior leadership and advocating for engineering priorities.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Desire to grow and learn as a manager, grow and develop others, and get results through others rather than personal technical proficiency.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Able to hire, mentor, empower, develop, and delegate to geographically distributed team members with different skills from your own.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Commitment to our values:</span></li> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Welcoming differences</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Being relationship-minded</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Practicing responsible participation</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Having grit</span></li> </ul> </ul> <p><strong>Bonus points for:</strong></p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Fostering the use of AI in Frontend engineering teams.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Experience working in open source environments.</span></li> </ul> <p><strong>What you’ll get:</strong></p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Generous performance-based bonus plans to all eligible employees - we share in our success as one team</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Rich medical, dental, and vision coverage</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Generous retirement contributions with 100% immediate vesting (regardless of whether you contribute)</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Quarterly all-company wellness days where everyone takes a pause together</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Country specific holidays plus a day off for your birthday<