Job description
Why Mozilla?
Mozilla Corporation is the non-profit-backed technology company behind pioneering brands like Firefox, the privacy-minded web browser. More than 270 million people around the world use its products each month.
Along with 20,000+ volunteer contributors and collaborators all over the world, Mozilla Corporation’s staff are driven by our vision to be the trusted guide through a joyful internet. We design, build and distribute software that enables people to enjoy the internet on their terms.
Help make the internet a better place!
We are looking for an experienced in-house product counsel to work closely with our advertising, marketing, product, engineering, and business development teams throughout the product development life cycle, with a focus on guiding responsible advertising practices. A key member of our stellar Product & Privacy Legal team, you will provide practical and business-oriented legal advice, ensuring alignment with Mozilla’s values of privacy, transparency, and privacy by design.
As Senior Product Counsel for Mozilla, you will…
- Provide practical legal advice across Mozilla’s advertising and monetization initiatives, as well as other topics including user-generated content, subscription services, and emerging technologies, in each case from conception to launch and beyond.
- Counsel ads, product, engineering, marketing, and business development teams on compliance with advertising, privacy, and consumer protection laws in the U.S., EU/UK, and globally.
- Monitor evolving regulatory and industry frameworks in digital advertising, including state, federal, and international privacy and data protection laws (e.g. CCPA/CPRA, GDPR, ePrivacy Directive), the Digital Services Act, and IAB and other industry standards, and deliver timely and practical advice to inform Mozilla’s product and advertising strategies.
- Partner with business teams to ensure Mozilla’s product development and advertising strategy promotes transparency, trust, and privacy by design.
- Draft, revise, and maintain consumer and developer terms of use and privacy policies.
- Collaborate with privacy, product, and commercial counsel, as well as Trust & Safety, Policy, and other internal stakeholders, to provide consistent guidance and develop scalable risk management frameworks.
- Build deep relationships across Mozilla, identify risks, and work cross-collaboratively to propose and implement creative and practical solutions.
Your Professional Profile
- J.D. degree and membership in a state bar with good standing
- 5+ years experience, with at least two years in-house
- Experience counseling clients in advertising and marketing law, adtech, data privacy, and consumer protection
- Demonstrated ability to translate complex legal and regulatory requirements into practical business advice
- Strong interest in technology, with the ability to break down technical concepts and communicate them effectively to legal, policy, marketing, and cross-functional partners.
Preferred Profile
- Familiarity with self-regulatory frameworks for advertising (e.g., FTC guidelines, IAB, DAA, NAI).
- Experience working with ad tech partners and vendors on consent management frameworks, including implementing CMPs, managing user preference signals (TCF, GPP, GCP), and ensuring alignment with global privacy and consumer protection requirements. ,
- Experience counseling on EU and cross-border regulatory frameworks impacting digital advertising.
- Background in ad measurement, analytics, or attribution.
About Mozilla
Mozilla exists to ensure that the internet is 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 and inclusion
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 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 [email protected] 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.
