Executive Communications Lead

Responsibilities

Lead executive communications and external visibility for Mozilla’s CEO and senior leadership, including preparing them for interviews, keynotes, regulatory testimony, crises, and industry events. Develop speeches and other executive materials, build a strategic visibility and thought leadership program, and coordinate with communications, policy, marketing, product teams, and external writers.

Requirements

Requires 8–12+ years of communications experience, with substantial executive communications, speechwriting, or thought leadership work, including direct experience supporting a CEO. Candidates should have exceptional writing and editorial judgment, experience preparing executives for high-stakes engagements, and the ability to build trust across senior stakeholders; technology, policy, public-interest, or mission-driven experience is valued.

Skills

• Executive Communications
• Speechwriting
• Thought Leadership
• Strategic Communications
• Exceptional Writing
• Editorial Judgment
• Project Management
• Executive Coaching
• Media Relations
• Crisis Communications
• Stakeholder Management
• Public Policy Communications
• Narrative Development
• Cross-Functional Collaboration
• Technology Communications
• Global Communications

Benefits

• Performance-Based Bonus
• Medical Insurance
• Dental Insurance
• Vision Insurance
• Retirement Contributions
• Wellness Days
• Paid Holidays
• Birthday Leave
• Home Office Stipend
• Professional Development Budget
• Well-Being Stipend
• Paid Parental Leave
• Employee Referral Bonus
• Life and Accidental Death and Dismemberment Insurance
• Disability Insurance
• Employee Assistance Program

About this role

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:
The browser, and browser engine remain how we underpin choice and control when people access the web. Now, AI is posing generation-defining questions: what say do people have in their choices online and who controls the web? Over 25 years ago Mozilla and allies took on this challenge, but the time has come to revisit some fundamentals. This is exactly the kind of moment Firefox was built for.
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.
Mozilla has a perspective that is rare in tech. We are driven by our double bottom line, not by shareholders. We are a deeply technical organization, mission-driven, and have decades of experience at the heart of the open web. Getting that perspective heard, and heard in the right rooms, is what this role is about.
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.
What you’ll bring:
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.
Commitment to our values:
Play to win
Build for people first
Engage evidence over ego
Decide and deliver
Ship, learn, repeat
What will help you stand out:
Global or multilingual experience: coordinating people across regions or working with international press.
Policy or public affairs exposure: a basic government affairs understanding of some of our key issues (privacy, security, AI, competition).
What you’ll get:
Generous performance-based bonus plans to all eligible employees - we ...

About Mozilla

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