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. The Mozilla Foundation empowers people to shape a healthier digital world. We work across borders to advocate for privacy, inclusion, and decentralization, and to create safer, more transparent online experiences for everyone.
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.
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 VP, Strategic Communications and is a key member of the Mozilla Foundation leadership team.
Strong candidates for the Director role will offer:
• 7+ years’ experience in similar position of strategic development
• Exceptional project direction and management skills; ability to manage multiple timelines, deadlines, and actions in a collaborative fast-paced environment
• Strong experience in creating and designing event programs, including event themes, messaging, branding, content, and creative approaches to improving audience engagement, interaction, and development
• Experience and/or passion for Federated Design
• Commitment to supporting and designing for a diverse, global audience
• Experience in community leadership and development and/or membership growth, with excellent communication skills and commitment to federated open design processes and principles
• Experience in leading external conversations, building partnerships, and fundraising
• Managing large scale budgets
• Excellent people management skills and experience managing tiered teams
• At least 3-5 years’ experience in civic and social enterprise relating to the issues we face online today
• Commitment to Mozilla mission and manifesto
COMPENSATION & BENEFITS
The location for this role is flexible but will manage a globally dispersed team with the median timezone 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