[Hiring] Senior Product Manager @Wikimedia Foundation

Role Description

Wikimedia is looking for an experienced product manager (contract) for the Connection team in our Product department to cover for a parental leave. This role reports to the Group Product Manager, Contributors.

As the product manager with the Connection team (contract), you will work with community members, researchers, engineers, and designers to deliver on the contributor strategy, with a focus on making the contributing experience more meaningful. This is a contract position to cover a parental leave (4 months with a potential to extend to 8 months). Candidates must be available for critical meetings and synchronous work between 15:00 UTC and 18:00 UTC.

You are responsible for:

• Leading the product development process to define, develop, and deliver features to make the contributing experience more meaningful within the guardrails of our OKRs.
• Discovering and defining new opportunities to set future KRs with the help of the Group Product Manager.
• Setting priorities for a cross-functional product team of a designer, engineering manager, software engineers, and community relations specialist.
• Collaborating with community ambassadors and volunteer community members around the world who participate in the Connection team's product development process.
• Collaborating with fellow product managers to stay aligned on higher-level strategic priorities.
• Coordinating and collaborating across other departments, such as Community Growth.
• Releasing and iterating intentionally to provide incremental value and validate hypotheses.
• Using quantitative and qualitative methods to evaluate impact.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience managing user-facing consumer web products.
• Demonstrated success in launching new features.
• Experience working with cross-functional teams.
• Experience working in an agile or iterative software development environment.
• Commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion.
• Strong listening skills.
• Ability to clearly communicate plans and results to stakeholders and collaborators.
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in relevant work experience.
• A desire to make meaningful contributions to knowledge equity, free culture, and open access.

Requirements

• Experience with a two-sided platform or marketplace product.
• Proficiency with data, reporting, analytics, or A/B testing.
• Experience building features for mobile devices.
• Experience building products that support positive user habits, engagement, or ongoing value creation over time.
• Experience with fully remote, geographically distributed, and asynchronous teams.
• Experience working with communities, volunteers, or open source projects.
• Experience editing Wikipedia or contributing to other wiki projects.
• Experience with users in emerging markets, such as the Middle East, Africa, South Asia, or Latin America.
• Fluency in a language other than English.

Benefits

• Competitive and equitable salaries.
• Hourly rate range of US$52/hour to US$80/hour for applicants based within the United States.
• Pay range adjusted for applicants located outside of the US.