Engineering Manager, Ads
About The Position
The Ads Engineering organization at Mozilla builds privacy-respecting advertising systems that support Mozilla’s products and business while aligning with our mission and values. Our teams focus on reliable, scalable systems that enable advertising experiences across Mozilla products. As an Engineering Manager on Ads Engineering, you will lead a team of software engineers working on Firefox Suggest Ads, the sponsored suggestion experiences within Firefox Suggest. This team builds and operates backend services, partner integrations, experimentation capabilities, and product-facing systems that help deliver relevant sponsored suggestions in Firefox while respecting user privacy and product quality expectations. You’ll be responsible for building a healthy, effective team; partnering closely with Product, Data, Privacy, Policy, Revenue, and Firefox engineering stakeholders; and ensuring your team delivers high-quality software in support of Ads Engineering goals. This role balances people leadership, execution, and collaboration, with a strong emphasis on mentoring engineers, navigating ambiguity, delivering results, and fostering a positive, inclusive team culture.
Requirements
- 6+ years of professional software engineering experience, including at least 2 years of people management experience
- A track record of leading teams that successfully deliver production software
- Strong judgment around prioritization, execution, and balancing short-term delivery with long-term sustainability
- Familiarity with modern software development practices, including planning, issue triage, and delivery workflows
- Ability to collaborate effectively with product managers and partner teams to deliver outcomes
- Experience supporting engineers with varied skill sets, backgrounds, and levels of experience
- Comfort working in a distributed, asynchronous environment
- Experience in search, ads, recommendations, marketplaces, browser/client-platform integrations, or other privacy-sensitive product domains — or demonstrated ability to quickly learn complex domains where user trust, data practices, and business outcomes must be balanced
Responsibilities
- Mentor, support, and develop a team of software engineers, helping them grow in impact and craft
- Lead your team through the delivery of Firefox Suggest Ads initiatives, including backend services, partner integrations, experimentation, measurement, reliability improvements, and product-facing integrations where requirements may evolve as privacy, policy, user experience, and business constraints become clearer
- Partner with product managers and cross-functional stakeholders to navigate ambiguity, particularly where user data, privacy expectations, or policy considerations shape technical and product decisions
- Ensure the software your team builds is reliable, maintainable, and aligned with Mozilla’s quality, security, and privacy standards
- Create an environment where engineers can do their best work, including healthy team processes, clear communication, and support through uncertainty
- Participate in hiring and onboarding to grow and strengthen the team over time
Benefits
- Generous performance-based bonus plans to all eligible employees
- 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)
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Manager
Education Level
No Education Listed
