6+ years of professional software engineering experience, including at least 2 years of people management experience
A track record of leading teams that successfully deliver production software
Strong judgment around prioritization, execution, and balancing short-term delivery with long-term sustainability
Familiarity with modern software development practices, including planning, issue triage, and delivery workflows
Ability to collaborate effectively with product managers and partner teams to deliver outcomes
Experience supporting engineers with varied skill sets, backgrounds, and levels of experience
Comfort working in a distributed, asynchronous environment
Experience in search, ads, recommendations, marketplaces, browser/client-platform integrations, or other privacy-sensitive product domains — or demonstrated ability to quickly learn complex domains where user trust, data practices, and business outcomes must be balanced
Commitment to our values
Welcoming differences
Being relationship-minded
Practicing responsible participation
Having grit
The Ads Engineering organization at Mozilla builds privacy-respecting advertising systems that support Mozilla’s products and business while aligning with our mission and values. Our teams focus on reliable, scalable systems that enable advertising experiences across Mozilla products
As an Engineering Manager on Ads Engineering, you will lead a team of software engineers working on Firefox Suggest Ads, the sponsored suggestion experiences within Firefox Suggest. This team builds and operates backend services, partner integrations, experimentation capabilities, and product-facing systems that help deliver relevant sponsored suggestions in Firefox while respecting user privacy and product quality expectations
You’ll be responsible for building a healthy, effective team; partnering closely with Product, Data, Privacy, Policy, Revenue, and Firefox engineering stakeholders; and ensuring your team delivers high-quality software in support of Ads Engineering goals
This role balances people leadership, execution, and collaboration, with a strong emphasis on mentoring engineers, navigating ambiguity, delivering results, and fostering a positive, inclusive team culture