Sr. Staff Engineering Program Manager

Mozilla; Toronto; Hybrid; CAD 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A prominent technology company is seeking a Senior Staff Engineering Program Manager to lead complex cross-functional programs for advertising product development. The ideal candidate will have 10+ years of technical program management experience and excellent interpersonal skills. Responsibilities include managing roadmaps, ensuring compliance, and driving alignment among diverse teams. This position offers a hybrid work model and a generous benefits package.

Benefits

Generous performance-based bonus plans

Rich medical, dental, and vision coverage

Generous retirement contributions

Quarterly wellness days

Birthday leave

Home office stipend

Qualifications

• 10+ years of technical program management experience in ad delivery.
• Experience managing software engineering programs end to end.
• Ability to understand complex concepts and make reasoned decisions.

Responsibilities

• Manage roadmaps for ad tech and data platform initiatives.
• Build and maintain relationships with stakeholders.
• Report progress and escalate risks as needed.
• Ensure compliance with data governance policies.
• Maintain comprehensive project documentation.

Skills

Technical program management experience

Excellent interpersonal skills

Complex problem-solving

Good communication skills

System design influence

Job description

Sr. Staff Engineering Program Manager

at Mozilla Corporation
Team: Strategy, Operations, Data & Ads
Locations: Remote US, Remote Canada

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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’re looking for a skilled and experienced Technical Program Manager to support our Advertising Product and Engineering team. In this role, you will lead the execution of complex, cross-functional programs that drive the development of advertising features, systems and data products. You will coordinate work across engineering, product, data science, and cross-company and external partners to deliver scalable, privacy-compliant solutions in areas like targeting, attribution, bidding, and measurement. As a TPM, you’ll play a key role in influencing system design, driving architectural alignment, and ensuring program goals are met on time. You\'ll manage multiple initiatives simultaneously, working with global and remote teams, and provide clear updates to stakeholders. Success in this role requires strong program leadership, risk management, and a deep understanding of how technical and business priorities intersect in advertising.

What you’ll do

• Manage roadmaps for ad tech and data platform initiatives, ensuring alignment with business goals, technical feasibility, and compliance requirements.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with internal stakeholders and external partners to ensure smooth execution and alignment.
• Manage communication of technical requirements and changes in project scope using structured verification and change control processes.
• Report progress, escalate risks, and highlight key achievements to management and relevant partners as needed.
• Drive architectural alignment and coordinate engineering teams across orgs to deliver scalable ad features such as targeting, attribution, and real-time bidding.
• Ensure compliance with data governance policies and privacy regulations (e.g., GDPR, CCPA) throughout all advertising and data initiatives.
• Manage system risks and dependencies, communicate with Eng managers, PMs and leaders, and mitigate technical delivery risks.
• Maintain comprehensive project documentation, ensuring traceability, transparency, and operational continuity.
• Continuously refine delivery processes and optimize workflows across engineering, data science, and product management teams.

What you’ll bring

• 10+ years of technical program management experience in ad delivery and the ad tech ecosystem.
• Experience managing software engineering programs end to end.
• Excellent interpersonal skills to juggle many activities without losing sight of the highest-priority items.
• Ability to understand complex concepts and make reasoned decisions with sometimes imperfect data.
• Good communication skills, relationship-building, and negotiation skills.
• Ability to communicate and interact with leaders within the advertising organization and across the business.
• Experience collaborating with engineering and architecture teams to influence and contribute to the system design of key advertising components.
• Experience ensuring system design decisions balance business requirements, technical feasibility, performance, and long-term maintainability.
• Experience driving architectural reviews and supporting the design of distributed, low-latency systems to handle real-time ad delivery.

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)