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Product Director, Common Voice (12 month Fixed-Term)Mozilla Foundation is a non-profit building a better technology future — powered by people, open by design, fueled by imagination.We deliver people-first alternatives to today’s extractive systems. We build side by side with developers, innovators and advocates, united in the belief that a better technology future is not only possible — it’s ours to create.TeamThe Tech Platforms team stewards and evolves shared technology platforms that power Mozilla Foundation programs and enable effective, secure, and scalable ways of working. Within the Tech Platforms team, Mozilla Common Voice is the flagship intervention to mitigate bias within AI - in particular by making it possible for speakers of the world’s 7000+ languages, and traditionally marginalized demographic communities, to be represented in AI training sets, and meaningfully engaged in building AI.Mozilla Common Voice is a data crowdsourcing platform that supports 300+ communities around the world, and to which more than half a million people have contributed. The dataset is used by these communities, and also in technology and research organizations all over the world.The Common Voice work spans product development, platform engineering, data stewardship, privacy and compliance, and community engagement. The team collaborates closely with contributors, researchers, and partners across regions and languages to ensure the platform remains trustworthy, inclusive, and sustainable while supporting long-term impact and future growth.The Product Director, Common Voice is responsible for the overall success of the Common Voice project. This role is primarily accountable for product vision, roadmap, prioritization, and long-term direction, while also taking on interim community management responsibilities and providing engineering leadership and delivery oversight.Job responsibilitiesHere are some projects you'll likely work on in your first 6 months:Deliver the 2026 maintenance+ roadmap, ensuring platform stability, reliability, security, and progress on critical technical debt.Define and track success metrics aligned to 2026 goals and Tech Platforms objectives.Lead development of a proposed 2027+ product roadmap, including growth scenarios, resourcing implications, and strategic tradeoffs.Support the Common Voice project in funding proposals and partnership discussions as needed.Take on interim community manager responsibilities while the Common Voice team is re-scoped and shaped.Ensure continuity, trust, and responsiveness for the Mozilla Common Voice community during the transition period.Oversee community communications, contributor engagement, and language onboarding processes within resourcing constraints.Set clear goals, priorities, and expectations for engineering contributors in alignment with product objectives.Ensure effective collaboration between engineering, data, privacy, and infrastructure partners.As a Product Director, Common Voice at Mozilla, you will work on…Product Ownership & Strategic Leadership - 50% of timeServe as the accountable product owner for Common Voice, with responsibility for product vision, roadmap, and prioritizationDeliver the 2026 maintenance+ roadmap, ensuring platform stability, reliability, security, and progress on critical technical debtDefine and track success metrics aligned to 2026 goals and Tech Platforms objectivesLead development of a proposed 2027+ product roadmap, including growth scenarios, resourcing implications, and strategic tradeoffsRepresent Common Voice project in funding proposals and partnership discussions as needed. Community Management & Stewardship (Interim) — 30% of timeTake on interim community manager responsibilities while the Common Voice team is re-scoped and shapedEnsure continuity, trust, and responsiveness for the Mozilla Common Voice community during the transition periodOversee community communications, contributor engagement, and language onboarding processes within resourcing constraintsBalance community needs with platform realities and clearly communicate priorities and limitationsEngineering Management & Delivery leadership - 20% of timeProvide direct people management and delivery leadership for Common Voice engineering staff and contractorsSet clear goals, priorities, and expectations for engineering contributors in alignment with product objectivesEnsure effective collaboration between engineering, data, privacy, and infrastructure partnersYour Professional Profile:5+ years of progressively senior Product Management experience, ideally within a small, agile team.Strong product judgment and experience setting direction, prioritizing work, and managing tradeoffs in a complex environment.Knowledge of linguistics or languages, with multilinguality a plus.At least a basic grounding in computational linguistics or NLP.Fantastic communication skills are required - the team and community are global and distributed. You will be required to communicate with internal and external collaborators, all of whom have very different perspectives, backgrounds and contexts.Excellent judgment, and proven in triaging a lot of inbound signals and needs.Self motivated and driven - a proactive problem solver - this is a small team.Strong affinity for research and metrics - ideally experience delivering user research plans and interfacing directly with communities, users and collaborators.Experience working directly and closely with linguists, language activists, software engineers, data scientists and designers.We Are Excited To See Any Additional Experience With:Some experience in Machine Learning-driven projects, or some academic training in ML/AI.Knowledge of Voice / Speech AI.Salary and Benefits Information:Mozilla Foundation is dedicated to fair and equitable compensation for our staff. We aim to pay a competitive and market-based salary based on the responsibilities and requirements of the role. We do not ask for, or take into account, salary histories in our offer process.The starting salary ranges for this role are listed below. These four countries are where we most commonly employ staff.Germany: €101,347.20 — €113,888.92UK: £83,980.80 — £94,373.42Canada: $174,960.00 — $196,611.30US: $129,600.00 — $145,638.00Some regions fall into a higher salary market and this is reflected in the example ranges below: London: £104,976.00 — £117,966.78New York City: $162,000.00 — $182,047.50Maryland/DC: $155,520.00 — $174,765.60The range for your specific location will be discussed in screening conversations if your application is successful.We offer the following benefits:Private Medical InsuranceExtended Sick LeaveGlobal Employee Assistance Program (EAP)Retirement Plan contributionsPaid Time Off: 20 days annual leave + sick days and your birthday Company Holidays + ShutdownWellness budgetProfessional Development budgetTop up program for Pregnancy and Parental leavesBenefits are subject to change at any time at the discretion of Mozilla Foundation.