About Mozilla.org

Founded in 1998, the Mozilla Project is a family of nonprofits and companies that build technology and mobilize communities to advance the vision outlined in the Mozilla Manifesto, our principles for a better internet. Collectively, we are committed to create an internet that is open, accessible and secure for everyone everywhere.

Today the Mozilla family of organizations includes Mozilla Foundation, our philanthropic and charitable arm; Mozilla Corporation, which makes Firefox; MZLA, which makes Thunderbird; Mozilla Ventures, our impact fund; Mozilla.ai, which creates open source AI developer tools; and the Mozilla Data Collective, a data sharing platform for human agency and fair value exchange. The Mozilla.org team — currently housed at Mozilla Foundation — coordinates and supports this whole family of organizations.

As Mozilla grows, so does the need for a clear, compelling, and cohesive story about who we are, what we build, and why it matters.

Job Summary

Mozilla is seeking an Head of Editorial + Platforms, Mozilla Ecosystem, to lead and unify our global editorial vision and storytelling across platforms, from the Mozilla.org website to social channels and flagship publications. This person will act as a strategic partner to communications, product, and policy leads across Mozilla’s portfolio, helping to orchestrate a shared narrative about the work across the Mozilla portfolio and why it matters to creating a different future for AI and the internet.

The Head of Editorial + Platforms will operate like the front page editor of a major global publication, curating, prioritizing, and elevating the most important stories from across Mozilla’s entire ecosystem, and orchestrating how they come to life across all of our channels. The surface area is not just a single site, but a network of platforms (Mozilla.org, social, video, newsletters, and beyond) that together form Mozilla’s public voice.

This role sits at the intersection of journalism, media and technology: spotting what matters, connecting the dots across teams, and remixing ideas into high-impact storytelling. It requires strong editorial judgment, creative ambition, and the ability to translate complex ideas (like open-source AI or digital sovereignty) into compelling narratives that resonate with broad audiences.

This is a highly strategic and hands-on role, working across Mozilla’s portfolio to orchestrate a cohesive story of what’s happening across the ecosystem and what it means for the future of technology.

Core Responsibilities

Editorial Vision & Platform Leadership

• Define and lead Mozilla’s global editorial strategy across Mozilla.org and associated digital channels
• Co-create content frameworks with communications teams across the Foundation and Mozilla’s subsidiaries to ensure alignment and shared narrative development
• Establish Mozilla.org as the canonical “front page” for Mozilla — curating, commissioning, and publishing content from across the organization and beyond
• Oversee the redesign and ongoing evolution of Mozilla.org as a dynamic storytelling platform

Pan-Mozilla Storytelling

• Work across the entire Mozilla portfolio to synthesize inputs from across the portfolio and align content that advances our key narratives
• Identify and elevate stories that reflect Mozilla’s ecosystem-wide impact
• Ensure consistency and coherence of narrative across a diverse portfolio

Content Strategy & Curation

• Curate, remix, and deploy content across formats: articles, essays, op-eds, video, social, newsletters, and experimental media, making Mozilla’s external presence greater than the sum of its parts
• Act as connective tissue across decentralized social leads in the Mozilla family, collaborating to develop a cohesive strategy for Mozilla’s social platforms, with a focus on reach, engagement, and relevance
• Build and manage an editorial calendar aligned with key moments (e.g., reports, launches, global events)
• Launch and grow new content channels and verticals focused on areas like AI, open source, and digital sovereignty
• Manage the annual State of Mozilla report, working across the portfolio to develop a dynamic and agenda-setting product

Narrative Leadership 

• Shape and amplify Mozilla’s voice on major issues including open-source AI, trust, and the future of the internet
• Partner with communications and policy teams to develop and curate conversation-shaping materials (op-eds, speeches, essays, campaigns)
• Ensure Mozilla shows up authentically in the channels frequented by our key audiences (developers, policymakers, media, public audiences)
• Translate complex technical and policy topics into clear, compelling narratives for broad audiences,  a key Mozilla need

This person will manage contributors, freelancers and agency partners, and work with teams across the portfolio. Matrix management and relationship-building are key. 

What Success Looks Like

• Mozilla.org is widely recognized as the definitive destination for understanding Mozilla’s work and perspective
• Mozilla has a clear, consistent, and compelling editorial voice across platforms
• Audience reach and engagement grow significantly across social, web, and newsletters
• Mozilla plays a visible role in shaping public conversations on AI and the future of technology
• Flagship publications (e.g., State of Mozilla) become must-read, high-impact outputs
• Mozilla’s storytelling effectively connects its products, policy work, and ecosystem into a cohesive narrative

What We’re Looking For

• Exceptional editorial judgment and taste, able to act as a “front page editor,” curating what matters most and making sharp calls in a fast-paced environment
• Proven ability to operate as a curator/conductor across platforms, blending ideas, formats, and voices into cohesive, high-impact storytelling
• Strong cross-organizational leadership, including diplomatic leadership—able to lead through influence rather than authority in a complex, matrixed environment
• Service-oriented mindset, viewing Mozilla.org not just as a platform to own, but as a shared asset stewarded in service of teams across Mozilla
• Deep understanding of modern content ecosystems (social, video, newsletters, web) and what drives reach, relevance, and cultural impact
• Strategic storyteller with the ability to translate complex technology and policy topics into narratives that shape public conversation

Bonus: Experience building or evolving high-visibility editorial platforms or brands, especially in technology, policy, or mission-driven organizations

We also seek mission alignment in all roles: Passion for an open internet, trustworthy AI, and public-interest technology and alignment with Mozilla’s values of openness, privacy, and human-centered innovation

Key Stakeholders

• President, Mozilla (reporting)Mozilla.org communications lead (currently a consultant / day-to-day manager) 
• Mozilla Communications Council, which includes communication and marketing leadership across the full Mozilla family of organizations
• Mozilla.org team including CTO, who is leading a communications and editorial-intensive body of work around Open Source AI
• Social, digital, web and design staff across the Mozilla portfolio

This role requires deep collaboration across these stakeholders, with a strong emphasis on matrix management, relationship-building, and aligning diverse teams around a shared narrative.

The Target Annual Base Salary and Pay Range for this role is between $139,000-$175,000.  

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Summary

Mozilla is building a position in open source AI — through research, community, tooling, and public advocacy. A big part of that work is showing, not just telling. We need someone who can take an idea that would otherwise become a Figma deck or a long document and turn it into something you can click on, deploy, and share — fast.

This is a project-based prototyping role, but it requires a real engineer. You'll build working demonstrations of what open AI infrastructure can do: developer surfaces, integrations, and small applications that make abstract ideas tangible and invite conversation. You'll work in public, alongside the people building our community and social presence, so that what you build becomes part of how

The contractor in this engagement will partner closely with the teams working on Mozilla Intelligence and Harbor, as well as community and social media leads, to create prototypes that help Mozilla show up credibly in the places where developers already gather. The goal is not to build production systems or own a long-term product roadmap, but to produce working artifacts that spark engagement, learning, and conversation in the open source AI ecosystem.

What you'll do

• Build working prototypes of developer surfaces, tooling integrations, and applications on top of open source AI infrastructure — with a bias toward shipping something real in days, not weeks
• Work with coding agents and AI-assisted development tools as a core part of your workflow — not as a novelty, but as the way you operate
• Translate concepts, framing documents, and strategy ideas into demonstrations that can anchor a conversation, a community event, or a piece of content
• Collaborate closely with the social media and community team so that what you build is legible and shareable — demos that developers can understand and react to, not just screenshot
• Contribute to Mozilla's open source repositories and work in the open; your code should be something the community can fork, extend, and learn from
• Stay close to the open source AI ecosystem — know what's being built, what's broken, and where a working prototype can surface a real gap or opportunity
• Help evaluate and opine on open source AI tools, stacks, and developer surfaces through the lens of someone who's actually tried to build on them

What you'll bring

• Solid software engineering fundamentals — you write code that others can read, and you know the difference between a prototype and production
• Demonstrated comfort working with coding agents and AI-assisted development tools (Cursor, Claude Code, or equivalent) as a force multiplier, not a crutch
• Experience with the open source AI stack: inference, orchestration, evaluation, or adjacent layers — you've built something real on top of open models
• Fluency in Python and/or TypeScript, with enough range to pick up whatever the project needs
• Experience building APIs, developer-facing tools, or integrations — you understand what it means to build for other builders
• A strong sense of what makes a prototype useful for a conversation, not just technically functional
• Comfort working in public — open repos, community feedback, building in the open
• Strong written communication; you can explain what you built and why, to a technical audience, without over-engineering the explanation

What success looks like

• A steady output of working prototypes that make Mozilla's open source AI work tangible and demonstrate what's possible on open infrastructure
• Prototypes that get picked up — forked, extended, written about, or used as the basis for community conversations and events
• A genuine voice in the open source AI developer community, built through what you ship and share
• Close, productive collaboration with the community and social media team so that what you build has distribution and reach

Engagement model

• Fixed-term, contract-based engagement
• Flexible hours and outcome-oriented working style
• Work produced through this engagement is expected to be developed in the open where appropriate, including public repositories and community-facing channels
• This opportunity is scoped around specific prototyping and ecosystem-facing deliverables, rather than a permanent employee role

Budget for this opportunity: $200,000–$227,250 annualized equivalent.

This is a fixed-term contract opportunity, not a permanent employee role. Final contract terms — including scope, weekly hours, duration, and payment structure — will be determined based on the needs of the engagement and the selected contractor’s experience. This posting reflects Mozilla’s good-faith budgeted range for the work at the time of posting.

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