Senior Product Counsel

Why Mozilla?

Mozilla Corporation is the non-profit-backed technology company that has shaped the internet for the better over the last 25 years. We make pioneering brands like Firefox, the privacy-minded web browser. Now, with more than 225 million people around the world using our products each month, we’re shaping the next 25 years of technology and helping to reclaim an internet built for people, not companies. Our work focuses on diverse areas including AI, social media, security and more. And we’re doing this while never losing our focus on our core mission – to make the internet better for people. 

The Mozilla Corporation is wholly owned by the non-profit 501(c) Mozilla Foundation. This means we aren’t beholden to any shareholders — only to our mission. Along with thousands of volunteer contributors and collaborators all over the world, Mozillians design, build and distribute open-source software that enables people to enjoy the internet on their terms. 

About this team and role:

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. 

What you'll do:

• 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.

What you’ll get:

• 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)

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.