Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Mozilla is a non-profit-backed technology company focused on building an open and accessible internet through products such as Firefox. The Staff Recruiter will lead end-to-end recruitment for complex technical and leadership roles, including advanced sourcing, high-stakes candidate closing, stakeholder advising, recruiting workflow improvement, and long-term talent pipeline planning.
Responsibilities
- **High-Stakes Closing:** Own the end-to-end candidate experience for Staff-level and leadership roles, expertly navigating complex negotiations, equity education, and competitive counter-offers to ensure a high close rate
- **Advanced Passive Sourcing:** Architect and execute sophisticated sourcing strategies to identify elite, "hard-to-find" talent within niche technical communities (e.g., Rust, browser engine architecture, privacy-preserving AI)
- **Strategic Stakeholder Management:** Serve as a primary talent advisor to VPs and Directors, providing data-driven insights to influence organizational design and multi-quarter hiring plans
- **Operational Excellence:** Lead continuous improvement of the recruiting workflow, utilizing Career Level Guides (CLGs) to ensure consistency in candidate evaluation, leveling, and calibration across all technical business units
- **Talent Pipeline Planning:** Drive long-term succession planning by identifying and engaging talent today for the critical roles of tomorrow, ensuring a healthy and diverse pipeline
Skills
- Extensive experience managing the entire recruitment lifecycle for technical roles in a high-growth or open-source environment
- Demonstrated ability to build proprietary talent maps and close high-level candidates through mission-alignment and sophisticated negotiation tactics
- Proven track record of using job-level expectations to lead calibration sessions that result in consistent and fair hiring decisions
- Strong ability to work with senior leadership to define performance goals and identify development opportunities for talent pipelines
Benefits
- Generous performance-based bonus plans to all eligible employees - we share in our success as one team
- Rich medical, dental, and vision coverage
- Generous retirement contributions with 100% immediate vesting (regardless of whether you contribute)
- Quarterly all-company wellness days where everyone takes a pause together
- Country specific holidays plus a day off for your birthday
- One-time home office stipend
- Annual professional development budget
- Quarterly well-being stipend
- Considerable paid parental leave
- Employee referral bonus program
- Other benefits (life/AD&D, disability, EAP, etc. - varies by country)
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