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Chief of Staff to CEO

🕒 2 days ago

💵 £181.8k - £204.5k / year

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

👩🏽‍✈️ Chief of Staff

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Mozilla

501 - 1000 employees

Founded 1998

👥 B2C

🔒 Cybersecurity

B2C • Cybersecurity • Software

Mozilla is a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting an open and accessible internet. They are the makers of the popular Firefox browser, which emphasizes user privacy, speed, and control. Mozilla also offers a range of products that focus on internet security and privacy, including Mozilla VPN, Firefox Relay, and Mozilla Monitor. Additionally, the organization is involved in open-source projects, AI innovation, and advocating for digital rights. Mozilla aims to empower users with trustworthy technology and policies that protect privacy, support open-source AI development, and foster accountability for tech companies.

📋 Description

• Serve as the CEO’s strategic partner, internal proxy and trusted extension of leadership. • Hold the CEO’s strategic agenda and translate priorities into organizational alignment. • Represent the CEO internally and make decisions on the CEO’s behalf within delegated authority. • Determine what reaches the CEO and escalate only matters requiring the CEO’s judgment. • Partner strategically with the Executive Leadership Team and the CEO’s Executive Program Manager. • Partner with the Investment Committee and its technical and strategic advisors to align recommendations with Foundation priorities and move decisions from evaluation to funding. • Build working partnerships with the CEO and ELT members during the first six months. • Develop cross-functional understanding of the Foundation’s work and connect functions to CEO priorities. • Translate CEO priorities into strategic outcomes, decision points and organizational alignment. • Prepare decision-ready issues with context, options and recommendations. • Pressure-test and refine strategic priorities and anticipate decisions needed over the next 30, 60 and 90 days. • Direct the CEO’s time toward strategy, external relationships, development, Board leadership and high-consequence decisions. • Filter significant strategy shifts, material risks, major budget decisions and Board-level matters to the CEO. • Maintain visibility into priorities, identify drift from strategic intent and surface conflicts before emergencies. • Enable ELT alignment, follow-through on decisions and commitments, and cross-functional coordination. • Prepare the CEO for Board meetings, funder and partner conversations, speeches and public engagements. • Identify external opportunities warranting CEO attention and ensure external commitments receive internal follow-through. • This role has no direct reports, does not manage the ELT or Foundation operations, and does not manage the CEO’s calendar or administrative support.

🎯 Requirements

• Significant, verifiable experience as a strategic partner at CEO or executive-team level, with a track record of leading high-stakes work and turning ambiguity into structure and action. • Experience working across multiple legal entities is a plus, including navigating differences, building influence, and coordinating work across entities where relevant. • A proven record of driving complex, cross-functional priorities from idea to execution by defining outcomes, ownership, milestones and decision points. • Exceptional judgment and discretion, including handling confidential information and navigating complex executive dynamics with integrity. • Demonstrated ability to influence without formal authority, build trust across functions and at the most senior levels, and give direct feedback with care. • Outstanding written and verbal communication, with experience distilling complex information into decision-ready briefs, recommendations, presentations and executive communications. • Strong analytical and strategic problem-solving skills. • Disciplined prioritization, with the agility to move between long-term priorities and time-sensitive issues. • Direct experience supporting Board governance, fundraising or other high-stakes external relationships at an executive level. • A track record of doing high-impact work out of the spotlight and acting in the best interests of the CEO and the organization. • A demonstrated commitment to Mozilla Foundation’s mission and to building an open, accessible and trustworthy internet. • Ability to work across time zones and occasionally outside standard working hours for Board meetings, major events or urgent organizational needs. • Comfortable traveling for Board meetings, leadership gatherings and major events. • Additional experience in nonprofit, philanthropic, technology or public-interest organizations is welcomed. • Experience supporting or advising investment, grantmaking or funding committees is welcomed.

🏖️ Benefits

• Private Medical Insurance • Extended Sick Leave • Global Employee Assistance Program (EAP) • Retirement Plan contributions • Paid Time Off: 20 days annual leave + sick days and your birthday • Company Holidays + EOY Shutdown • Wellness budget • Professional Development budget • Top up program for Pregnancy and Parental leaves

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