Staff Recruiter

Mozilla; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous performance-based bonus

Medical, dental, vision coverage

100% vesting retirement contributions

Home office stipend

Professional development budget

Parental leave

Employee referral bonus

Job summary

Mozilla is seeking a Staff Recruiter (P4) to own end-to-end recruitment for highly complex technical roles. You will lead advanced sourcing, negotiate offers, and partner with senior leaders to plan multi-quarter hiring strategies.

In this high-impact role, you’ll drive operational excellence, implement standard scoring via CLGs, and ensure a diverse, high-caliber pipeline that strengthens Mozilla’s mission and product roadmap.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience managing end-to-end recruitment for technical roles.
• Proven ability to close senior-level candidates through mission alignment and negotiation.
• Experience leading calibration sessions using job-level expectations.
• Strong consultative collaboration with VPs and Directors to shape hiring plans.
• Commitment to Mozilla values: welcoming differences, relationship-mindedness, participation, grit.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end candidate experience for Staff-level and leadership roles.
• Architect and execute advanced sourcing strategies to identify elite talent.
• Advise VPs and Directors with data-driven insights to influence hiring plans.
• Lead continuous improvement of recruiting workflow and candidate evaluation process.
• Plan long-term talent pipelines for critical future roles.

Skills

Full-Cycle Recruiting

High-stakes closing

Advanced passive sourcing

Stakeholder management

Calibration leadership

Consultative approach

Job description

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.

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 People team architects the talent engine that powers Mozilla's mission‑driven work. As a Staff Recruiter (P4), you are a high‑level individual contributor responsible for driving end‑to‑end recruitment for our most complex and critical technical roles. You will operate as a talent architect, leading advanced sourcing initiatives and high‑stakes closing strategies while ensuring operational excellence across the entire hiring lifecycle.

What you'll do:

• High‑ Stakes Closing: Own the end‑to‑end candidate experience for Staff‑level and leadership roles, expertly navigating complex negotiations, equity education, and competitive counter‑offers to ensure a high close rate.
• Advanced Passive Sourcing: Architect and execute sophisticated sourcing strategies to identify elite, "hard‑to‑find" talent within niche technical communities (e.g., Rust, browser engine architecture, privacy‑preserving AI).
• Strategic Stakeholder Management: Serve as a primary talent advisor to VPs and Directors, providing data‑driven insights to influence organizational design and multi‑quarter hiring plans.
• Operational Excellence: Lead continuous improvement of the recruiting workflow, utilizing Career Level Guides (CLGs) to ensure consistency in candidate evaluation, leveling, and calibration across all technical business units.
• Talent Pipeline Planning: Drive long‑term succession planning by identifying and engaging talent today for the critical roles of tomorrow, ensuring a healthy and diverse pipeline.

What you'll bring:

• Full‑Cycle Mastery: Extensive experience managing the entire recruitment lifecycle for technical roles in a high‑growth or open‑source environment.
• Expert Sourcing & Closing Skills: Demonstrated ability to build proprietary talent maps and close high‑level candidates through mission‑alignment and sophisticated negotiation tactics.
• Leadership in Calibration: Proven track record of using job‑level expectations to lead calibration sessions that result in consistent and fair hiring decisions.
• Consultative Approach: Strong ability to work with senior leadership to define performance goals and identify development opportunities for talent pipelines.
• Commitment to our values: * Welcoming differences
  • Being relationship‑minded
  • Practicing responsible participation
  • Having grit

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 build the Internet as 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, inclusion, and belonging

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 certainly not limited to) women, racialized and Indigenous persons, persons with disabilities, persons of all sexual orientation s, 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 [e-mail] 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.

Group: C

Our impact is global

• 1000+ paid staff from over 30 countries
• Thousands of volunteer contributors across six continents
• 2 global offices: Berlin and Toronto
• 9 coworking space locations: San Francisco, San Mateo, London, Paris, Portland, Tulsa, Vancouver, Chicago, and Bellevue
• Hundreds of home offices globally

Our benefits are world‑class

• Flexible work environment (majority of Mozillians work remotely)
• Industry‑leading paid parental leave (up to 26 weeks of fully paid leave for childbearing parents and up to 12 weeks for non‑childbearing parents)
• Reimbursement for professional development (up to $3,000/year)
• A work setup including the latest hardware and software of your choice

At Mozilla, we're serving humanity—by maintaining a safe, open internet—while also helping the individual humans employed here to reach their personal and professional goals. With a relatively small team serving hundreds of millions of people, a culture of exploration, and a commitment to mentorship, opportunities abound to learn and grow at Mozilla.

• Purpose is built into our work, with our mission driving every decision
• We challenge assumptions, the status quo, ourselves, and each other
• We are transparent: in our code, our business partnerships, and our everyday interactions
• We seek out people from diverse backgrounds and with perspectives different from our own
• We pair purpose with performance and put people ahead of profit