Product Director, Common Voice (12 month Fixed-Term)
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.
Key responsibilities include delivering the 2026 maintenance+ roadmap to ensure platform stability, reliability, security, and progress on critical technical debt. The role involves defining and tracking success metrics aligned to 2026 goals and Tech Platforms objectives, leading the development of a proposed 2027+ product roadmap, and representing the Common Voice project in funding proposals and partnership discussions. Additionally, the Product Director will take on interim community manager responsibilities, ensuring continuity and responsiveness for the Mozilla Common Voice community during the transition period, and oversee community communications, contributor engagement, and language onboarding processes.
The ideal candidate will have 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 are essential. Knowledge of linguistics or languages, with multilinguality being a plus, and at least a basic grounding in computational linguistics or NLP are required. Excellent communication skills are necessary to collaborate with internal and external stakeholders from diverse backgrounds and contexts. The candidate should be self-motivated, proactive, and have a strong affinity for research and metrics, with experience delivering user research plans and interfacing directly with communities, users, and collaborators.
The position offers a competitive salary, with starting ranges depending on location. For example, in the US, the range is $129,600.00 — $145,638.00. Benefits include private medical insurance, extended sick leave, a global employee assistance program, retirement plan contributions, paid time off, company holidays, a wellness budget, a professional development budget, and a top-up program for pregnancy and parental leaves. Benefits are subject to change at any time at the discretion of Mozilla Foundation.
Mozilla Foundation is a non-profit building a better technology future — powered by people, open by design, fueled by imagination. The organization delivers people-first alternatives to today’s extractive systems, building alongside 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 this team, Mozilla Common Voice is the flagship intervention to mitigate bias within AI, 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.