[Hiring] Group Product Manager, Data Platforms @Wikimedia Foundation

Role Description

The Wikimedia Foundation is looking for a group product manager to guide the development and evolution of our data platforms, the collection of technologies we use to understand how Wikipedia works, improve its experiences, and spread free knowledge.

The group product manager is a leader in the strategic decision-making and tactical execution for the Data Engineering, Experimentation, Search, and Data Platform Site Reliability teams. This role shares leadership responsibility with the Director of Engineering for Data Platform Engineering, and works in collaboration with data analysts, researchers, and product teams building user-facing features for reading and editing Wikipedia on the web and mobile apps. This is a people management role, managing two individually-contributing product managers.

In this role, you and your group of product managers will guide the evolution of our data pipelines, data lake, experiment platform, and analytics tools. This includes:

• Ingestion
• Orchestration
• Computation
• Serving data using a variety of technologies such as Kafka, Flink, Hadoop, Spark, Airflow, Iceberg, Kubernetes, Superset, dbt, and OpenSearch.

This position will report to the Senior Director of Product, Core Experiences.

Candidates must be available for critical meetings and synchronous work between 15:00 UTC and 18:00 UTC, and open to traveling internationally up to four times per year.

This role is accountable for:

• Ensuring the accuracy, usefulness, reliability, and accessibility of our data products
• Defining and setting priorities and roadmaps for Data Platform Engineering teams across four domains: data engineering, search, experimentation, and site reliability
• Product lifecycle management of the products, services, and tools of the Data Platform Engineering teams
• Co-developing product strategy, providing leadership, and making and facilitating sound decisions
• Managing and developing a team of product managers
• Partnering with user-facing product teams to use the data platform to guide product decisions and build derived-data products

Qualifications

• Minimum of 5 years of product management experience with data or infrastructure products
• Experience hiring and managing product managers
• Success delivering data and analytical products and services depended on by multiple product teams
• Expertise in data analytics, A/B testing, search, and data architecture
• Strong understanding of modern techniques for handling high-scale data
• Knowledge of search technologies
• Experience navigating privacy issues around data collection, retention, and distribution
• Ability to work with multiple stakeholder teams to deliver results through lateral influence and collaboration

Requirements

• Commitment to the mission and values of the Wikimedia Foundation
• Effective at asynchronous communication in a distributed workplace
• Able to navigate and make decisions in circumstances with limited, incomplete, and conflicting information
• Focus on iterative delivery and minimum viability to provide value to customer teams
• Effective at clear, written communication for strategy, plans, roadmaps, and decisions, for a wide range of audiences including individual contributor engineers, volunteer contributors, and department leadership

Benefits

• Competitive, equitable salaries
• Remote-first organization with staff members in 40+ countries
• Annual pay range for applicants within the United States: $131,926 to $206,302
• Pay adjusted for applicants located outside of the US
• Equal opportunity employer valuing a diverse workforce

Company Description

The Wikimedia Foundation is the nonprofit organization that operates Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia free knowledge projects. Our vision is a world in which every single human can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. We believe that everyone has the potential to contribute something to our shared knowledge, and that everyone should be able to access that knowledge freely.

• We host Wikipedia and the Wikimedia projects
• Build software experiences for reading, contributing, and sharing Wikimedia content
• Support the volunteer communities and partners who make Wikimedia possible
• Advocate for policies that enable Wikimedia and free knowledge to thrive