Frontend Engineering Manager

Who you are

• 4+ years leading engineers in a software development environment and working across multiple distributed teams
• 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
• Experience leading multiple concurrent projects
• Previous experience working on frontend platform initiatives e.g. design systems and frontend architectural improvements
• Track record of delivering front-end experiences to user-facing products
• Hands-on experience with web technologies (JavaScript/TypeScript, HTML, and CSS)
• Proven track record successfully leading and shipping sophisticated user facing experiences on time, using data to inform timelines.
• Strong communication and ability to develop positive relationships with others, regardless of their rank or role
• Passion to resolve problems, manage risk, lead change, and facilitate collaborative decision-making
• Experience effectively communicating with senior leadership and advocating for engineering priorities
• Desire to grow and learn as a manager, grow and develop others, and get results through others rather than personal technical proficiency
• Able to hire, mentor, empower, develop, and delegate to geographically distributed team members with different skills from your own
• Commitment to our values:
• Welcoming differences
• Being relationship-minded
• Practicing responsible participation
• Having grit
• Fostering the use of AI in Frontend engineering teams
• Experience working in open source environments

What the job involves

• 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! 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
• 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
• 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
• Feel good about your work again! Pursue your future while working to protect the future of the internet for everyone, everywhere
• Drive initiatives to deliver value to our users ensuring the software your team delivers is high quality, highly available, monitored, and maintainable
• 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
• Communicate your team’s goals, the scope and risks of your projects, and own the delivery of initiatives on clear timelines
• Identify, build and iterate on engineering processes that support a high performing team
• Engage regularly 1-1 with your team to discuss both technical work and professional development; provide direct and honest feedback about their individual performances
• Ensure developers are properly supported and empowered throughout the developer lifecycle
• Create an inclusive environment which engages and challenges your team members
• Work collaboratively with many teams including Product, UX, QA, Operations, and Data Science

Benefits

• Health and wellness: Mozilla covers medical, dental and vision plan premiums at 100% for U.S. and Canadian employees. Our offerings give you the options you need to manage your health — and your family’s — the way you want.
• Mental health: Mental health is as important as our physical health. That’s why Mozilla’s health benefits include therapy and coaching sessions to make sure our people have access to the care they need.
• Time away: With all of life’s demands, time away from work to disconnect and recharge is essential. In addition to country-specific holidays (12 in the U.S. and Canada), vacation and sick time start accruing right away (specifics vary by country). Everyone also takes a pause together on quarterly all-company wellness days, plus you get to celebrate the most personal holiday of all: your birthday.
• Parental leave: While Mozilla’s parental leave policies vary globally, our U.S. and Canadian-based employees can look forward to 26 weeks of paid leave for childbearing parents and 12 weeks of paid leave for non-childbearing parents.
• Financial: Mozilla is a private company, so our compensation isn’t tied to stock options or equity plans. Instead, we offer generous, performance-based bonus plans to all regular employees to underscore that we share in our success as one team. As for retirement savings for US and Canadian employees, Mozilla contributes a percentage of your eligible base salary each year to the 401(k) Plan/RRSP (regardless of whether you contribute or not), with 100% vesting.
• Learning and development: We’re big believers in learning by doing, and we also want to invest in your education and development beyond your role. Every employee is eligible for an annual professional development budget. Mozillians can put it toward technical or management training, certifications, conferences and more.
• Help when you need it: Life is full of surprises; that’s why it’s important to be prepared. Mozilla provides Life/AD&D and Short and Long Term Disability insurance (offerings may vary by locale) to ensure that you and your family will have a safety net in place should you ever need it.
• Plus a bit more: A few other benefits include a quarterly wellbeing stipend (to use on those things just for you), an employee referral bonus, internet reimbursement if you’re remote, and a budget for office essentials to make working remotely ergonomically comfortable.