Director of Engineering, Firefox

Requirements:

• 12+ years of professional experience within the software engineering industry, working across a diverse range of companies and products.
• 5+ years of management experience, with experience managing managers and working across multiple distributed teams.
• Experience overseeing the development, operations, and strategic execution of a comprehensive ecosystem.
• Proven team leadership skills leading and mentoring teams of diverse managers and engineers.
• Desire to grow and learn as a leader, grow and develop others, and get results through others rather than personal technical proficiency.
• Passion to resolve problems, manage risk, lead change, and facilitate collaborative decision-making.
• Able to hire, mentor, empower, develop, and delegate to geographically distributed team members with different skills from your own.

What You'll Be Doing:

• Define and own the execution for the longer term strategy for your teams.
• Create an inclusive environment which engages and challenges your team members, and exposes them to new opportunities.
• Communicate your team’s goals, the scope and risks of your projects, and drive the delivery of initiatives on clear timelines.
• Mentor and provide regular feedback to employees regarding system architecture, solution design, code quality, test development, career development, employee performance, community building, communication style, and work-life balance.
• Work collaboratively with many teams including Data Science, UX, Marketing, and Product.

Nice to Haves:

• Excellent communication skills, both in written and presentation form. You have the ability to quickly distill sophisticated topics into concepts that are tailored for your target audience.
• You are a lifelong learner, and continue to refine and improve your skills when you see an opportunity to do so.
• Solid understanding of at least one of the following programming languages: JavaScript, Python, C++, or Rust.
• Experience with the browser extensions architecture or ecosystem.
• Experience working in open source environments.

Perks and 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)