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

• Here 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 time • Serve as the accountable product owner for Common Voice, with responsibility for product vision, roadmap, and prioritization • 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 • Represent 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 • Engineering Management & Delivery leadership - 20% of time • 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 • Your 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.