# Engineering Manager, Ads

**Company:** [Mozilla](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/mozilla)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** Engineering Management
**Experience:** 6+ years
**Skills:** Software Engineering, People Management, backend services, partner integrations, Experimentation, privacy, Product Management
**Posted:** 2026-07-28

> Lead a team of software engineers building privacy-respecting Firefox Suggest Ads backend services, partner integrations, and experimentation capabilities. Requires 6+ years software engineering experience including 2+ years people management, strong collaboration with product and cross-functional stakeholders, and comfort in distributed environments.

## Job Description

## What you’ll do

- 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

## What you’ll bring

- 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
- Commitment to our values: Welcoming differences, Being relationship-minded, Practicing responsible participation, Having grit

## What you’ll get

- 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)

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