Staff Recruiter

Mozilla; United States; Remote; USD 137,000 - 183,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus plans

Comprehensive health benefits

Retirement contributions

Home office stipend

Professional development budget

Well-being stipend

Parental leave

Employee referral bonus

Job summary

Mozilla is seeking a Staff Recruiter to own end-to-end recruitment for Staff-level and leadership roles in a fast-growing, open-source environment. You will lead advanced sourcing, close high-level candidates, and partner with VPs and Directors to shape multi-quarter hiring plans.

A strong emphasis on calibration and process excellence drives this role. You will also influence talent strategy, build pipelines for future critical roles, and contribute to diversity and inclusion while navigating

Qualifications

• Extensive experience managing the entire recruitment lifecycle for technical roles in a high-growth or open-source environment.
• Demonstrated ability to build proprietary talent maps and close high-level candidates through mission-alignment and sophisticated negotiation tactics.
• Proven track record of using job-level expectations to lead calibration sessions that drive fair hiring decisions.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end recruitment for Staff-level and leadership roles, including negotiations and equity education.
• Architect and execute advanced passive sourcing to identify elite hard-to-find talent.
• Advise VPs and Directors with data-driven insights to influence hiring plans.
• Lead continuous improvement of recruiting workflows and candidate evaluation standards.
• Plan long-term succession and build diverse, healthy pipelines for critical roles.

Skills

Full-Cycle Recruiting

Advanced Sourcing

Negotiation

Stakeholder Management

Talent Pipeline Planning

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.

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:
  • 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 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 [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.

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Req ID: R3236

Hiring Ranges:

• US Tier 1 Locations: $137,000 — $183,000 USD
• US Tier 2 Locations: $126,000 — $168,000 USD
• US Tier 3 Locations: $116,000 — $155,000 USD