Engineering Manager, Ads

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)