Chief of Staff to the CEO

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! Team Our CEO is increasingly focused outward on the Board, funders, partners, and public conversations that will shape the Foundation’s next chapter. This newly created Chief of Staff role exists to extend the CEO’s reach inside the organization and make that outward focus possible. Reporting directly to the CEO, you’ll serve as the CEO’s strategic partner, internal proxy and trusted extension of their leadership. You’ll hold the CEO’s strategic agenda, translate the CEO’s priorities into organizational alignment, represent the CEO internally where needed, and make decisions on the CEO’s behalf within clearly delegated authority. You’ll determine what reaches the CEO, prepare the CEO for consequential moments, and escalate only what requires the CEO’s judgment. As a member of the Executive Leadership Team, you’ll partner strategically with other members of the ELT and work closely with the CEO’s Executive Program Manager to make sure the CEO’s time, priorities, and commitments stay aligned and moving. You’ll also partner with the Foundation’s Investment Committee and its technical and strategic advisors, keeping their focus on the right questions, their recommendations aligned with the Foundation’s strategic priorities, and decisions moving efficiently from evaluation to funding. Job responsibilities Here’s what you’ll likely be focused on for the first 6 months : • Building a strong working partnership with the CEO, aligning on priorities, ways of working and clearly defining the scope of your delegated authority. • Establishing a trusted partnership with each member of the Executive Leadership Team, learning their priorities, pressures and ways of working. • Developing a deep, cross-functional understanding of the Foundation’s work and how each function connects to the CEO’s priorities. • Translating the CEO’s priorities into a concise, clear set of strategic outcomes that leaders understand and can use to guide the decisions they own, with a current view of what’s changing and which decisions are approaching. • Defining with the CEO what truly requires their attention, and ensuring issues reach them decision-ready, with context, options and a recommendation. • Getting up to speed with the Investment Committee and its advisors, and helping keep their focus on the right questions so decisions move efficiently from evaluation to funding. As the Chief of Staff to Mozilla Foundation’s CEO, you will… • Serve as the CEO’s thought partner in developing, pressure-testing and refining strategic priorities, synthesizing executive insight and external developments to anticipate what will need to be known or decided in the next 30, 60 and 90 days. • Direct the CEO’s time toward strategy, external relationships, development, Board leadership and the Foundation’s highest-consequence decisions. • Filter rather than forward, so significant shifts in strategy, material risks, major budget decisions and Board-level matters reach the CEO early, with context, options and a recommendation. • Maintain a current view of the CEO’s top priorities, identify where work is drifting from strategic intent, and surface conflicts in priorities, resources or attention before they become emergencies. • Enable the Executive Leadership Team to operate as one team around the CEO’s priorities, so the right issues reach the ELT at the right level and decisions and commitments are followed thro