Staff Visual Designer

Mozilla
Full time
Design and Multimedia
Canada
Hiring from: Canada
Why Mozilla?

Mozilla Corporation is the non-profit-backed technology company that has shaped the internet for the better over the last 25 years. We make pioneering brands like Firefox, the privacy-minded web browser, and Pocket, a service for keeping up with the best content online. Now, with more than 225 million people around the world using our products each month, we’re shaping the next 25 years of technology and helping to reclaim an internet built for people, not companies. Our work focuses on diverse areas including AI, social media, security and more. And we’re doing this while never losing our focus on our core mission – to make the internet better for people.

The Mozilla Corporation is wholly owned by the non-profit 501(c) Mozilla Foundation. This means we aren’t beholden to any shareholders — only to our mission. Along with thousands of volunteer contributors and collaborators all over the world, Mozillians design, build and distribute open-source software that enables people to enjoy the internet on their terms.

About This Team And Role

The Firefox UX team works on products and services that keep the Internet open and accessible for all. We, Mozilla, a corporation fully owned by a non-profit are focused on a mission to advance a healthy internet. We put people first in everything we do.

As a Staff Product Designer, with a strong foundation in visual and interaction design, you will take a strategic lead in shaping the future of Firefox on Android and iOS, with a strong emphasis on delivering best-in-class native experiences. Prioritizing Android, you’ll apply deep knowledge of platform-specific design patterns to craft intuitive, high-quality mobile interfaces. You’ll raise the bar on visual and interaction design across platforms—ensuring every detail reflects polish, clarity, and usability. Collaborating closely with product managers, engineers, researchers, and content strategists, you’ll advocate for user needs while aligning with Mozilla’s mission of privacy and user empowerment.

What You’ll Do

  • Lead UX efforts for major initiatives in Firefox Mobile, with a strong focus on visual craft and interaction design. You'll translate user needs and business goals into polished, intuitive experiences that feel native and high-quality on every touchpoint.
  • Design and prototype intuitive, accessible, and visually compelling mobile experiences that support Firefox’s core values of privacy, security, and performance.
  • Create design storyboards, wireframes, mockups, and prototypes to communicate intent and for conducting qualitative and quantitative research
  • Collaborate with product, engineering, and research teams to align design decisions with business objectives, technical feasibility, and user needs.
  • Advocate for mobile-first UX best practices, ensuring high usability across different devices and screen sizes.
  • Contribute to and evolve the Design System, ensuring consistency and usability across mobile platforms.
  • Support product strategy from concept to completion for critical user journeys and finding opportunities

What You Bring

  • 7+ years of experience in UX design, with a strong portfolio showcasing mobile-first design work.
  • Deep expertise in native design languages, with a strong focus on Android and complementary experience in iOS. Well-versed in platform-specific patterns, guidelines, and best practices to deliver intuitive, high-quality mobile experiences.
  • Strong ability to balance user needs, business objectives, and technical feasibility in design decisions.
  • Experience designing for privacy, security, and accessibility in mobile applications.
  • Proficiency with Figma
  • Highly collaborative
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills
  • Comfortable presenting and articulating design decisions
  • Interest in working with geographically distributed cross-functional team members
  • Passionate about building products with people’s needs at the center
  • Strong collaboration and communication skills, with the ability to present design concepts and advocate for UX decisions with cross-functional stakeholders.
  • Experience working with design systems and contributing to their evolution.
  • Ability to work in a fast-paced, iterative, and remote-first environment.
  • Ability and interest in learning new technologies quickly
  • Commitment to our values:
    • Welcoming differences
    • Being relationship-minded
    • Practicing responsible participation
    • Having grit
Bonus Points

  • Experience with browser UX design or working on consumer-facing products with large user bases.
  • Deep understanding of developing products that prioritize accessibility
  • Familiarity with Jira and/or other engineering and product management tools
  • Passion for open-source, privacy-first, and ethical technology.
  • Experience with design thinking and lean software development
  • Knowledge of user research methodologies and when to apply them

What You’ll Get

  • 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)

About Mozilla

Mozilla exists to build the Internet as a public resource accessible to all because we believe that open and free is better than closed and controlled. When you work at Mozilla, you give yourself a chance to make a difference in the lives of Web users everywhere. And you give us a chance to make a difference in your life every single day. Join us to work on the Web as the platform and help create more opportunity and innovation for everyone online.

Commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging

Mozilla understands that valuing diverse creative practices and forms of knowledge are crucial to and enrich the company’s core mission. We encourage applications from everyone, including members of all equity-seeking communities, such as (but certainly not limited to) women, racialized and Indigenous persons, persons with disabilities, persons of all sexual orientations, gender identities, and expressions.

We will ensure that qualified individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment, as appropriate. Please contact us at [email protected] to request accommodation.

We are an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race (including hairstyle and texture), religion (including religious grooming and dress practices), gender, gender identity, gender expression, color, national origin, pregnancy, ancestry, domestic partner status, disability, sexual orientation, age, genetic predisposition, medical condition, marital status, citizenship status, military or veteran status, or any other basis covered by applicable laws. Mozilla will not tolerate discrimination or harassment based on any of these characteristics or any other unlawful behavior, conduct, or purpose.

Group: C

ReqID: R2846

Hiring Ranges

Canada Tier 1 Locations

$104,000—$139,000 CAD

Canada Tier 2 Locations

$94,000—$126,000 CAD

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