Looking for a General Counsel

The Mozilla Corporation is looking for a General Counsel to join its executive staff. The Mozilla Corporation is focused on creating great software and maintaining choice and innovation in key Internet activities, such as the highly acclaimed Mozilla Firefox and Mozilla Thunderbird applications. The Mozilla Corporation is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Mozilla Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting choice and innovation on the Internet.

The Mozilla Corporation

The Mozilla Corporation is at the heart of one of the largest open-source software development projects in existence. It includes a userbase of 70,000,000 people, paid and volunteer contributors numbering in the thousands, a range of spin-off projects, and a set of companies using Mozilla technology to build products. The Mozilla Corporation is also at the heart of the burgeoning innovation in web-based activities.

Mozilla Corporation employees work within a unique structure that combines open source DNA and development methodologies with extensive commercial involvement. Successful Mozilla Corporation employees are quick learners, excited by change, unbothered by ambiguity, motivated by personal excellence, happy when doing many things and highly dedicated to the success of the project.

The General Counsel

The General Counsel will provide legal, business and strategic advice to the CEO, management team, and Board of Directors regarding legal aspects of the company’s objectives. The General Counsel must have an exceptional understanding of software and Internet business transactions, intellectual property issues, and the trade-offs between legal and business risks, as well as a good grasp of corporate governance and other operational issues (HR, etc). He or she will be expected to:

• Identify, articulate, execute and publicly explain legal initiatives to the management team, Board of Directors, employees, participants in the Mozilla project and the public;
• Use expertise to create new and innovative solutions;
• Lead industry-wide discussions and initiatives relevant to the Mozillla Corporation;
• Work well with the Mozilla Foundation, the non-profit parent of the Mozilla Corporation; and
• Help shape business relationships between the Mozilla Corporation and commercial entities.

The ideal candidate will have:

• Significant leadership experience with management teams across a range of issues; preferably as a General Counsel
• “Knock ’em dead” understanding of the software and online business and legal worlds
• Proven ability to identify, design and implement creative solutions
• Excellent communication, interpersonal and team skills
• An aggressive creative streak, coupled with extreme flexibility
• Strong affinity for open, transparent, distributed work environments and for the goals of the Mozilla project
• A driving interest in the overall health of the Internet and related public policy issues
• Familiarity with and high interest in open source software

If you think you are this person, please contact Dan Portillo at careers@mozilla.com.