Chief of Staff to the CEO

The posting, as Mozilla wrote it

Mozilla Foundation is a non-profit building a better technology future — powered by people, open by design, fueled by imagination.

We deliver people-first alternatives to today’s extractive systems. We build side by side with developers, innovators and advocates, united in the belief that a better technology future is not only possible — it’s ours to create!

Team

Our CEO is increasingly focused outward on the Board, funders, partners, and public conversations that will shape the Foundation’s next chapter. This newly created Chief of Staff role exists to extend the CEO’s reach inside the organization and make that outward focus possible.

Reporting directly to the CEO, you’ll serve as the CEO’s strategic partner, internal proxy and trusted extension of their leadership. You’ll hold the CEO’s strategic agenda, translate the CEO’s priorities into organizational alignment, represent the CEO internally where needed, and make decisions on the CEO’s behalf within clearly delegated authority. You’ll determine what reaches the CEO, prepare the CEO for consequential moments, and escalate only what requires the CEO’s judgment.

As a member of the Executive Leadership Team, you’ll partner strategically with other members of the ELT and work closely with the CEO’s Executive Program Manager to make sure the CEO’s time, priorities, and commitments stay aligned and moving.

You’ll also partner with the Foundation’s Investment Committee and its technical and strategic advisors, keeping their focus on the right questions, their recommendations aligned with the Foundation’s strategic priorities, and decisions moving efficiently from evaluation to funding.

Job responsibilities

Here’s what you’ll likely be focused on for the first 6 months :

• Building a strong working partnership with the CEO, aligning on priorities, ways of working and clearly defining the scope of your delegated authority.
• Establishing a trusted partnership with each member of the Executive Leadership Team, learning their priorities, pressures and ways of working.
• Developing a deep, cross-functional understanding of the Foundation’s work and how each function connects to the CEO’s priorities.
• Translating the CEO’s priorities into a concise, clear set of strategic outcomes that leaders understand and can use to guide the decisions they own, with a current view of what’s changing and which decisions are approaching.
• Defining with the CEO what truly requires their attention, and ensuring issues reach them decision-ready, with context, options and a recommendation.
• Getting up to speed with the Investment Committee and its advisors, and helping keep their focus on the right questions so decisions move efficiently from evaluation to funding.

As the Chief of Staff to Mozilla Foundation’s CEO, you will…

• Serve as the CEO’s thought partner in developing, pressure-testing and refining strategic priorities, synthesizing executive insight and external developments to anticipate wh

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Salary and Benefits Information

Mozilla Foundation is dedicated to fair and equitable compensation for our staff. We aim to pay a competitive and market-based salary based on the responsibilities and requirements of the role. We do not ask for, or take into account, salary histories in our offer process.

The starting salary ranges for this role are listed below.

• Germany: €206,448.00 – €232,253.22
• UK: £181,764.00 – £204,483.81
• Canada: $356,400.00 – $400,948.65
• US: $264,000.00 – $296,999.00

We also offer the following benefits

• Private Medical Insurance
• Extended Sick Leave
• Global Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Retirement Plan contributions
• Paid Time Off: 20 days annual leave + sick days and your birthday
• Company Holidays + EOY 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.

Mozilla Foundation Hiring Practices

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, and persons of all sexual orientations and gender identities and expressions.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation at accommodation@mozillafoundation.org.

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