Project/Program Manager, Mobile (Firefox OS) | Mozilla corporation | Mountain View, CA, United States

Project/Program Manager, Mobile (Firefox OS) | Mozilla corporation | Mountain View, CA, United States

Project/Program Manager, Mobile (Firefox OS)

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Project/Program Management

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Mountain View, CA, United States

Do you enjoy planning and executing large and complex mobile software projects? Can you drive consensus among teams with conflicting priorities? Can you wade through check-in logs one day and prepare high level status presentations for executives the next day? If so, come and take part in the mobile revolution. Much as Mozilla revolutionized the web with Firefox, Firefox OS will change the world of mobile computing making it a truly open platform.

We're looking for an experienced Engineering Project Manager to help us drive and deliver on aggressive goals for Firefox OS. The competitive candidate will have a strong track record of driving mobile projects to completion and doing anything and everything to help the team make it to the finish line.

As a Firefox OS Project/Program Manager at Mozilla, you will need to:
 * Be self-motivated, capable of managing your time well, and work efficiently without close supervision
 * Be adaptable to the needs of different projects and teams
 * Move seamlessly between discussions with senior level executives, front-line engineers or partners and OEMs.
 * Facilitate the definition of project scope, goals, and deliverables
 * Act as a conduit of information between engineering and other internal groups (both technical and non-technical) to ensure that decisions and status are understood
 * Provide a framework within which development progress can be tracked
 * Identify projects or programs that are stuck and drive them forward
 * Identify blocking issues and provide recommendations to 'unblock' them
 * Negotiate and build consensus among project teams
 * Communicate status and project details to project stakeholders and the Mozilla community

Job Skill Requirements:
* CS or engineering degree
* Responsible for executing large, complex software projects with many parts and users
* Experience building mobile products and working directly with carriers and oems
* Experience with SCRUM or other agile models
* Excellent written and verbal communication and negotiation skills
* Working knowledge of Web standards (HTML, CSS, JS) and the technology that drives the Web
* Ability to build consensus when there are conflicting opinions and no clear answer
* Ability to work effectively with a geographically distributed team
* Ability to work comfortably with people ranging from VPs to junior engineers
* Ability to do some travel

Other Useful Skills/Experience:
* Participation in and contributions to Open Source projects
* Familiarity with systems such as Bugzilla, Jira, GitHub, and Mercurial
* Experience in one or more of the following areas: application development, quality assurance, release engineering, documentation, security, performance


http://careers.mozilla.org/en-US/position/oS2TYfwv