Director, Mozilla Festival

About the Mozilla Foundation

Established in 2003, and guided by the Mozilla Manifesto, the Mozilla Foundation believes the internet is a global public resource that must remain open and accessible to all. Mozilla’s mission is ambitious: making the health of the internet a mainstream issue. It is also vital: as centralization, surveillance, exclusion, and other online threats proliferate, we need a movement to keep the web a global public resource. Mozilla’s programs operate at different scales and locations around the world, fueling the movement for a healthy internet.

In 2020, the Mozilla Foundation launched a multi-year investment strategy focused on advancing ‘Trustworthy artificial intelligence’ globally. As AI is dramatically changing our online lives, we seek to ensure that AI improves human experience through designing AI systems that allow for user agency and hold companies accountable for its results. Our approach to Trustworthy AI and an outline of our Theory of Change is described in greater detail here.

What is the Mozilla Festival?

Movement building is key to Mozilla’s strategy to advance a healthy internet broadly and trustworthy AI in particular. As a core part of this work, Mozilla connects and convenes the builders, educators, policy makers, artists, activists, and innovators of all stripes working to make the internet better for all of us. The Mozilla Festival - or MozFest - is the party where all of these disparate players from around the world come together to envision and build a better internet and more trustworthy AI.  

For more information, please visit the Mozilla Festival website at https://www.mozillafestival.org/en/.  

The Opportunity

The Director, Mozilla Festival (Director) translates Mozilla Foundation's strategic focus into a convening strategy of both in-person and virtual events that fuel the internet health movement. The person in this role is responsible for creating events that rally citizens across intersectional movement, discipline, geography, age, and culture using the principles of open, movement organizing, and federated design. They are charged with creating both global and deeply localized events that serve the mission while also informing Mozilla’s own future direction and approach. This is an exciting opportunity for a talented producer with deep experience curating events for a global community.

The Director, Mozilla Festival reports to the SVP, Global Programs and is a key member of the Mozilla Foundation leadership team.

Compensation & Benefits

The location for this role is flexible but will manage a globally dispersed team with the median time zone being the Eastern Time Zone.

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

• Germany: €111,513 - €125,277 EUR
• UK: £92,404 - £103,810 GBP
• Canada: $192,510 - $216,272 CAD
• US: $142,600 - $160,201 USD

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

• London: £115,506- £129,763 GBP
• New York: $178,250 - $200,250 USD

Mozilla Foundation offers the following benefits:

• Private Medical Insurance (Health, Dental, and Vision)
• Extended Sick Leave
• Global Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Retirement Plan contributions
• Paid Time Off: 20 days annual leave + sick days and your birthday (prorated)
• 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.