Electronic Frontier Foundation is hiring a
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), an established San Francisco-based nonprofit organization defending online privacy and free expression, is looking for a full-time manager to lead our Public Interest Technology team. If you want to use your management skills and technical knowledge to have an outsized impact on the future of digital rights, this is the opportunity for you. This position is remote-friendly within the U.S. and will need to keep Pacific time zone hours.
As the Public Interest Technology Director, you will be responsible for leading EFF’s distributed 15-person Public Interest Technology team, including our Certbot engineers, Privacy Badger developers, and growing group of public-facing technology analysts, security researchers, and expert rabble-rousers. You have the management skills and experience to directly supervise the Director of Certbot Engineering and Associate Director of Technology Policy, who in turn manage respective teams of individual contributors, software projects, and advocacy initiatives. EFF originated the position of “public interest technologist” before it was a trendy term, and your support and direction will be key to ensuring that the concept continues to thrive and evolve. You will also join EFF’s senior leadership team, helping make organization-wide decisions about how we utilize resources and where we focus our overall strategy to bring about long-term change in technology.
Embedding technical expertise at every level of our work is what sets EFF apart as a trusted leader in digital rights advocacy, and you have the cross-functional skills to facilitate collaboration among internal teams to maintain this standard with a focus on our mission. Our staff technologists bring technical rigor and creativity to their engineering projects as well as to their day-to-day collaboration with our Legal, Activist, Legislative, and Press colleagues. Your management style is about building bridges and fostering relationships rooted in respect and open communication, and you have experience making decisions in the midst of complexity and difficult trade-offs. Above all, you understand what it takes to bring people together around a common purpose while navigating disagreements and prioritizing among the constantly changing digital rights developments that EFF is called to address.
Digital rights work is interdisciplinary and constantly changing, and there is no one particular educational or professional background that candidates must have to succeed in this role. If you have experience or skills that would serve EFF’s Public Interest Technology team, please apply!
What You’ll Do
The Public Interest Technology Director, who reports to the Managing Director of Technology, is responsible for the following:
What We’re Looking For
To be successful in this job, you’ll need:
What Else You Should Know
Compensation for this position is $170,000 to $180,000 for those residing in the Bay Area. For anyone outside of the Bay Area, compensation will be dependent on location. This position is open to remote candidates within the U.S. and will need to keep Pacific time zone hours.
EFF is a great place to work! We offer a supportive and empowering environment, along with an excellent benefits package including housing cost assistance, student loans assistance, medical, dental, and vision insurance, a 403(b)(7) retirement savings program with matching, paid time off, holiday benefits, paid parental leave, a dog-friendly workplace, and more.
As an advocacy organization, EFF is committed to being part of a diverse community. Diversity of life experiences makes a big difference in how we identify and litigate legal issues, design privacy-enhancing software, and organize our activism. To that end, we deliberately seek applicants with different perspectives, identities, and experiences to build an inclusive workplace to better inform our advocacy and defense of freedom in our digital world. EFF is an equal opportunity employer and encourages people of all races, genders, ages, abilities, orientations, ethnicities, and national origins to apply. Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
EFF is looking to fill this position as soon as possible so please submit your application promptly, and no later than May 19, 2023**.** Applications submitted after that date will be considered until the position is filled.
Detailed Job Description
Position Summary
EFF is seeking a Director of Public Interest Technology to help lead our team of ethical technologists in defending encryption, outwitting censorship, and leading the way toward a better digital future. The Director of Public Interest Technology will also join EFF’s leadership team, helping make organization-wide decisions about how we utilize resources and where we focus our overall strategy.
Essential Functions
Management
Technical Leadership
Qualities We’re Seeking
Successful candidates bring these qualities:
Required experience**:**
Classification: Exempt, Full-Time (40 hours/week)
Compensation: $170,000 to $180,000 For Bay Area candidates (Salary will be regionalized if outside of the Bay Area)
Expected hours of work: Typically Monday - Friday
Reports to: Managing Director, Technology
Supervisory responsibilities: Currently manages the team’s Associate Director-level reports
Travel: EFF does two one-week all-staff gatherings at our San Francisco offices each year in the spring and fall, and all staff are expected to attend. There may also be opportunities to attend relevant professional conferences remotely or in person.
Location: This position is open to remote candidates within the U.S. Pacific time zone work hours are required.
Commitment to Diversity
As an advocacy organization, EFF is committed to being part of a diverse community. Diversity of life experiences makes a big difference in how we identify and litigate legal issues, design privacy-enhancing software, and organize our activism. To that end, we deliberately seek applicants with different perspectives, identities, and experiences to build an inclusive workplace to better inform our advocacy and defense of freedom in our digital world. EFF is an equal opportunity employer and encourages people of all races, genders, ages, abilities, orientations, ethnicities, and national origins to apply.
Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.