Product Director, Common Voice (12 month Fixed-Term)

Job Responsibilities

• 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.
• Balance community needs with platform realities and clearly communicate priorities and limitations.
• Provide direct people management and delivery leadership for Common Voice engineering staff and contractors.
• Set clear goals, priorities, and expectations for engineering contributors in alignment with product objectives.
• Ensure effective collaboration between engineering, data, privacy, and infrastructure partners.

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.
• Excellent judgment, and proven in triaging a lot of inbound signals and needs.
• Self-motivated and driven - a proactive problem solver.
• 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.
• 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.
• The starting salary ranges for this role are listed below.
• These four countries are where we most commonly employ staff.
• Germany: €101,347.20 — €113,888.92
• UK: £83,980.80 — £94,373.42
• Canada: $174,960.00 — $196,611.30
• US: $129,600.00 — $145,638.00
• London: £104,976.00 — £117,966.78
• New York City: $162,000.00 — $182,047.50
• Maryland/DC: $155,520.00 — $174,765.60