VP, Community

The Mozilla Foundation is a nonprofit public benefit organization. Our mission is to ensure that the Internet is a global public resource, open and accessible to all. Join us and become part of our mission to promote openness, innovation, and opportunity online!

Twenty years ago, this meant building a browser and protecting the open web. Today, it also includes making sure AI and data driven technology is more trustworthy. In order to focus on places where Mozilla can impact the next era of our work, we are increasingly working on the topic of trustworthy AI. For us, this means especially two things: human agency is a core part of how AI is built and integrated, and corporate accountability is real and enforced.

Team

This role is part of Mozilla Foundation’s Executive team and reports directly to the Executive Director. The VP, Community will work across the organization to ensure community-centered approaches are deeply embedded into Mozilla’s programs, advocacy, and decision-making. This is a newly created, high-impact leadership role that will shape how Mozilla supports, stewards, and learns from its global communities.

As the VP, Community at Mozilla Foundation, you will…

• Co-create Mozilla Foundation’s community strategy in collaboration with internal teams and external stakeholders.
• Design and implement equitable systems for community participation, leadership, and input across Mozilla’s programs.
• Develop mechanisms to surface community-defined priorities and ensure these are reflected in organizational strategy and resource allocation.
• Facilitate connections within and across Mozilla’s global community, supporting mutual learning and shared power.
• Create structures for healthy engagement, conflict transformation, and accountability within community spaces.
• Support staff across the Foundation in community-centered practices and develop tools and processes that help them succeed.

Here are some projects you’ll likely work on in your first 6 months:

• Lead a cross-functional audit of Mozilla’s community infrastructure and identify opportunities to create more durable, inclusive, and scalable systems.
• Establish meaningful community health metrics and participatory evaluation frameworks.
• Partner with product and advocacy teams to co-design community pathways around Mozilla’s initiatives — from participatory datasets to prosocial tech campaigns.
• Develop and facilitate a network of community collaborators to support Mozilla Festival and other key events.

Your Professional Profile:

• Proven experience building, facilitating, or stewarding diverse communities or networks with purpose and care.
• Strong track record in community organizing, developer relations, networked products, civic engagement, or a related field.
• Demonstrated ability to center justice, navigate power dynamics, and foster inclusive, equitable spaces.
• Experience leading participatory processes and evaluating community health and impact in meaningful, relational ways.
• Skilled in consensus building, conflict facilitation, and collaborative decision-making.
• Experience working with global networks across varied cultural contexts.
• Ability to align internal teams around community-centered priorities.

We Are Excited To See Any Additional Experience With:

• Familiarity with privacy-focused communities or products.
• Comfort working across a federated or decentralized organizational model.
• Appreciation of Mozilla’s Community Participation Guidelines and a commitment to open, transparent engagement.
• Experience building multilingual and accessible engagement environments.

Salary and Benefits Information:

The Mozilla Foundation is dedicated to fair and equitable compensation for our staff. We aim to pay a competitive and market-based salary based on the responsibilities and requirements of the role. We do not ask for, or take into account, salary histories in our offer process.

The starting salary ranges for this role are listed below. These four countries are where we most commonly employ staff.

• Germany: €163,281.60 – €183,691.02
• UK: £143,758.80 – £161,727.96
• Canada: $281,880.00 – $317,113.65
• US: $208,800 – $234,899

Some regions fall into a higher salary market and this is reflected in the example ranges below:

• London: £169,128.00 – £190,268.19
• New York: $261,000 – $293,623.75
• Bay Area: $261,000 – $293,623.75

The range for your specific location will be discussed in screening conversations if your application is successful.

We offer the following benefits:

• Private Medical Insurance
• Extended Sick Leave
• Global Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Retirement Plan contributions
• Paid Time Off: 20 days annual leave + sick days and your birthday
• Company Holidays + Shutdown
• Wellness budget
• Professional Development budget
• Top up program for Pregnancy and Parental leaves

Benefits are subject to change at any time at the discretion of Mozilla Foundation.

Mozilla Foundation Hiring Practices:

Mozilla understands that valuing diverse creative practices and forms of knowledge are crucial to and enrich the company’s core mission. We encourage applications from everyone, including members of all equity-seeking communities, such as (but certainly not limited to) women, racialized and Indigenous persons, persons with disabilities, and persons of all sexual orientations and gender identities and expressions.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation at [email protected].

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