Mozilla Corporation is a non-profit-backed technology company that has been shaping the internet for the better for over 25 years. They are seeking a Senior Product Manager for Advertising Products to lead the development of privacy-preserving advertising infrastructure, focusing on strategy, collaboration, and innovative solutions to enhance user experience and advertiser ROI.
Responsibilities:
- Drive the vision, strategy, and execution for our privacy-preserving advertising products (e.g., targeting, search suggestion monetization, ad formats)
- Drive rapid hypothesis testing and experiment-led product development to improve ad relevance, user experience, and advertiser ROI-while preserving privacy
- Orchestrate execution across Ads Engineering, Data Science, Firefox Platform, Design, Legal/Policy, Trust & Safety, Finance, and GTM. Convert strategy into crisp product requirements and cross-team plans
- Co-create user-first ad experiences and performant services (decisioning, delivery, measurement) that meet strict latency, quality, and accessibility standards. Provide clear problem framing and success criteria; give actionable design and technical feedback that raises product quality and delivery velocity
- Partner with BD/Sales to shape deal structures and launch new supply and demand integrations (e.g., PMP, SSP/DSP, measurement). Define product terms, API/SDK requirements and success metrics: influence pricing and packaging; steward marquee partnerships from tech evaluation through scaled adoption
- Establish the experimentation and measurement backbone for Ads (instrumentation, event quality, dashboards). Set and track KPIs such as RPM/eCPM, CTR, fill rate, viewability, latency SLOs, advertiser retention, and user sentiment/trust signals. Use privacy-preserving analytics to guide roadmap bets and protect the user experience with guardrails
- Deliver exec-ready narratives, PRDs, and decision memos that clarify trade-offs and drive alignment. Represent Ads strategy and results to Mozilla leadership, cross-functional partners, and external stakeholders; set a strong operating cadence for multi-team programs
- Anticipate and respond to platform and regulatory shifts (e.g., cookie deprecation, privacy standards, ATT, IAB specs). Continuously translate market and ecosystem signals into strategy, ensuring Mozilla leads on privacy-preserving advertising
- Champion Mozilla’s point of view on trustworthy, user-respecting ads and open standards. Influence industry forums and standards, publish insights, and build relationships that elevate Mozilla’s role in the ecosystem
Requirements:
- 10+ years in product management or (adjacent technical roles) including 5+ years building performance advertising products at meaningful scale
- Demonstrated end-to-end ownership of technical products from concept to launch to iteration-with clear business and reliability outcomes
- Experience in two-sided marketplaces (bidding, ranking, pacing, measurement)
- Working proficiency with data and experimentation (SQL, dashboards, A/B testing design, interpreting causal and observational results)
- Track record of influencing across multiple teams (Engineering, Research, Data, Security/Privacy, GTM) without direct authority
- Exceptional written communication: PRDs, decision documents, and executive level narrative storytelling
- Commitment to our values: Welcoming differences, Being relationship-minded, Practicing responsible participation, Having grit
- Experience working with content/surface teams on ad format design and layout
- Comfortable operating in ambiguous 0-1 environments and scaling successful bets from 1-n
- Passion for ads monetization, privacy, and user agency
- Strong technical fluency with ML systems (training vs. inference, feature engineering, evaluations, drift, model/version management) and modern cloud/data stacks