Staff Product Manager, Search Experiences

Job description

**Why Mozilla?** Mozilla Corporation is the non-profit-backed technology company that has shaped the internet for the better over the last 25 years. We make pioneering brands like Firefox, the privacy-minded web browser. Now, with more than 225 million people around the world using our products each month, we’re shaping the next 25 years of technology and helping to reclaim an internet built for people, not companies. Our work focuses on diverse areas including AI, social media, security and more. And we’re doing this while never losing our focus on our core mission – to make the internet better for people. The Mozilla Corporation is wholly owned by the non-profit 501(c) Mozilla Foundation. This means we aren’t beholden to any shareholders — only to our mission. Along with thousands of volunteer contributors and collaborators all over the world, Mozillians design, build and distribute **open-source** software that enables people to enjoy the internet on their terms. **About this team and role:** Search is the most essential functionality in any browser, and it’s evolving daily with new interaction paradigms, AI-powered answers, and agentic browsing. The Firefox Desktop Search team owns one of Mozilla’s most critical product areas, delivering high-quality, privacy-respecting search experiences that help solve key user problems, differentiate Firefox, and drive long-term business value. This role will help shape Firefox’s strategy in an era where AI is redefining how people search, learn, and get things done online. As a Staff Product Manager, you will define and drive the strategy and execution for search within the Firefox Desktop browser across Windows, macOS, and Linux. You will help determine how Firefox integrates traditional web search with emerging AI capabilities while upholding Mozilla’s leadership in privacy and user agency. You will operate at the intersection of product experience, revenue growth, and partner strategy to ensure Firefox delivers differentiated, future-facing search experiences. **What you’ll do:** - Define and drive the product strategy and roadmap for search features in the Firefox Desktop browser, driving search engagement and revenue. - Lead end-to-end experimentation across browser search access points, default search experiences, and search suggestions. - Define clear success metrics in partnership with Data Science, and translate insights into actionable decisions. - Partner with Business Development to support search partnerships and ensure product execution aligns with contractual and strategic commitments. - Collaborate with Engineering, Research, and Design to prototype and ship innovative search experiences. - Navigate complex trade-offs between user experience, privacy principles, technical constraints, and revenue outcomes in a rapidly shifting search landscape. - Contribute to quarterly and annual planning, identifying risks, opportunities, and long-term strategic initiatives. **What you’ll bring:** - 5+ years of product management experience, including ownership of revenue-impacting and user-facing product areas. - Experience working on search, discovery, AI/ML-powered products, or adjacent domains. - Strong understanding of modern AI capabilities and their product implications. - Proven experience leading experimentation programs and driving measurable business outcomes. - Strong analytical skills and fluency with product analytics tools and SQL. - Experience leading cross-functional teams and influencing without direct authority. - Demonstrated ability to balance user needs, privacy considerations, and business objectives. - Excellent communication skills and comfort engaging with senior stakeholders. **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) **About Mozilla** Mozilla exists to build the Internet as a public resource accessible to all because we believe that open and free is better than closed and controlled. When you work at Mozilla, you give yourself a chance to make a difference in the lives of Web users everywhere. And you give us a chance to make a difference in your life every single day. Join us to work on the Web as the platform and help create more opportunity and innovation for everyone online. **Commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging** Mozilla understands that valuing diverse creative practices and forms of knowledge are crucial to and enrich the company’s core mission. We encourage applications from everyone, including members of all equity-seeking communities, such as (but certainly not limited to) women, racialized and Indigenous persons, persons with disabilities, persons of all sexual orientations, gender identities, and expressions. We will ensure that qualified individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment, as appropriate. Please contact us at [hiringaccommodation@mozilla.com](mailto:hiringaccommodation@mozilla.com) to request accommodation. We are an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race (including hairstyle and texture), religion (including religious grooming and dress practices), gender, gender identity, gender expression, color, national origin, pregnancy, ancestry, domestic partner status, disability, sexual orientation, age, genetic predisposition, medical condition, marital status, citizenship status, military or veteran status, or any other basis covered by applicable laws. Mozilla will not tolerate discrimination or harassment based on any of these characteristics or any other unlawful behavior, conduct, or purpose. Group: C #LI-REMOTE Req ID: R3199 **Hiring Ranges:** US Tier 1 Locations $163,000—$218,000 USD US Tier 2 Locations $150,000—$200,000 USD US Tier 3 Locations $139,000—$185,000 USD