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.

The 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.

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.

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. 

Community Management & Stewardship (Interim) — 30% of time

• 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

• 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.

• Some experience in Machine Learning-driven projects, or some academic training in ML/AI.
• Knowledge of Voice / Speech AI.

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, and persons of all sexual orientations and gender identities and expressions.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation at accommodation@mozillafoundation.org.

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