[Hiring] VP, Mozilla Studio @Mozilla

Role Description

This newly created role of VP, Mozilla Studio will hold the responsibility of building and running the Studio. You'll start with an active portfolio, including our current AI initiatives, and keep that work moving without disruption while you set the Studio's direction.

This role reports directly to the CEO and partners closely with the Operations Team to steward the Studio's legal, compliance, financial, and logistical obligations, keeping handoffs clear so the Studio runs smoothly across the Foundation.

This is a remote role open to candidates based in Canada, Germany, the UK, or the US.

Job responsibilities

• Take the helm of the Studio’s active portfolio, including our current AI initiatives.
• Assess each active bet rigorously to understand who it serves, what early signals it’s showing, and what it will take to reach its next stage.
• Set the Studio's direction and criteria for what it backs, extends, stops, or declines, and decide how much support each team gets within our agreed investment timelines.
• Hold every bet to a clear standard: a deployer or user named up front, with progress measured in adoption and impact rather than activity.
• Pressure-test every commitment before capital moves to understand whether we can make a meaningful difference.
• Balance early signals across the portfolio against bigger conviction bets.
• Guide each team to a durable structure with a working sustaining model and at least one named funder beyond us.
• Build and lead a high-performing Studio team and a bench of talent calibrated to support each team's stage and timeline.
• Set up clear and dependable handoffs with the Investment Committee and other Foundation teams.
• Translate portfolio evidence into clear signals for leadership, the Board, and our funders.
• Make the Studio a place serious engineers and founders want to be.

Qualifications

• Proven track record building or leading a studio, incubator, lab, accelerator or early-stage founder program at a senior level.
• Technical lens to engage engineers, open source and internet infrastructure.
• Deep, active network of deployers, buyers, co-funders and builders across sectors and regions.
• Fluency with capital classes, including grants and recoverable grants.
• Experience with at least one model beyond venture equity, such as cooperatives or public-benefit companies.
• Comfort in making the hard calls; stopping bets and saying no.
• Experience building and leading high-performing teams.
• Demonstrated commitment to Mozilla Foundation's mission and to an open, trustworthy internet.
• Flexibility to work across time zones and occasionally outside standard hours.

Requirements

• Nonprofit governance and Board reporting.
• Fundraising and building funder relationships.
• Depth in one or more of Mozilla Foundation's focus areas.
• Helping teams get their technology adopted by public institutions or large organizations.

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.

Company Description

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.