[Hiring] Executive Communications Lead @Mozilla

Role Description

We're looking for a Head of Executive Communications to lead how Mozilla's senior leaders show up in the world. This is a role for someone who has experience working directly with a CEO, thinks strategically, writes exceptionally well, has strong project management skills and understands how to translate complex ideas into narratives that move people and shape debates.

You will own executive visibility and thought leadership for Mozilla's CEO and leadership team, working closely with the wider Communications team, Product teams and Public Policy to ensure our leaders are positioned as authoritative, credible voices on the issues that define the future of the internet. You will report into the Director of Corporate Communications and serve as a trusted strategic partner to the executives you support.

What you'll do:

• Own the executive communications function: develop and drive a proactive, strategic approach to how Mozilla's CEO and senior leadership team are seen and heard externally.
• Prepare executives for high-stakes engagements: major interviews, keynotes, regulatory testimony, crisis moments, and industry forums.
• Build and manage an executive visibility calendar that is proactive, strategic, and aligned to Mozilla's goals, not just reactive to inbound requests.
• Write, develop, and refine speeches, keynote remarks, op-eds, briefing documents, talking points, and interview preparation materials across a range of formats and audiences.
• Build productive working relationships and act as a consistent partner to the executives you support: understanding their voice, their expertise, and how to marry both to Mozilla's corporate objectives.
• Partner closely with the broader Communications team, Public Policy, Marketing and other cross functional teams to ensure executive communications is consistent with and reinforcing Mozilla's broader narrative, policy positions, and product moments.
• Develop a thought leadership strategy that positions Mozilla's leadership as distinctive, credible voices on the questions that matter, but are often in a crowded space: AI and the future of the web, privacy and digital rights, open source, competition, and the intersection of technology and public interest.
• Coordinate with external agencies and freelance writers where needed, maintaining a high editorial bar throughout.

Qualifications

• 8–12+ years of experience in communications, with a significant focus on executive communications, speechwriting, or thought leadership, ideally in or around technology, policy, or mission-driven organisations.
• Direct experience of working at CEO level, and the ability to work across teams and build trust with senior stakeholders quickly.
• Exceptional writing skills. You write clearly, quickly, and in other people's voices. Your op-eds are readable. Your briefing documents are used. Your talking points don't sound like talking points.
• A track record of preparing senior executives for high-stakes external engagements, and of making them better communicators over time.
• Strong editorial judgement for both the issues and the draft: you identify where Mozilla's leadership should participate in public debate, where they should shape it, and where they should stay out of it; you know what a good argument looks like, you know when a draft isn't there yet, and you can explain why.
• Experience working at the intersection of technology, policy, and public interest, or a clear understanding of why Mozilla's position in that space matters.
• Comfort with complexity and nuance. Mozilla operates at the intersection of technology, policy, and public interest, and our communications environment reflects that.
• Mission alignment. You understand why Mozilla exists, you find the work meaningful, and that comes through in how you operate.

Requirements

• Commitment to our values:
  • Play to win
  • Build for people first
  • Engage evidence over ego
  • Decide and deliver
  • Ship, learn, repeat

Benefits

• 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)