[Hiring] Senior Product Manager, Mobile Apps @Wikimedia Foundation

Role Description

Wikimedia is looking for an experienced product manager (contract) for the Mobile Apps team in our Product department. This is an opportunity to have a tremendous impact with one of the most beloved parts of the internet.

• Work with engineers, designers, community members, other product managers, and our volunteer community to deliver on the reader strategy.
• Focus on improving the experience of our most committed app users.
• This role will report to the Readers Group Product Manager.

This is a hands-on, individual contributor role. You will:

• Write the requirements, file tasks, create measurement plans, and provide community updates for your workstreams.
• Own each step from ideation through release, analysis, and reporting.
• Ramps up quickly, takes an ambiguous problem, scopes it into something the team can ship in a matter of weeks.
• Pull together data, research, and documentation to set your own direction within the team’s OKRs and established roadmap.

Success in this role is measured by what ships and what we learn from it.

You are responsible for:

• Leading the product development process from ideation and discovery through scoping, requirements, release, and analysis.
• Scoping work realistically: breaking ambitious ideas into MVPs and phased releases.
• Writing clear, complete kick-off decks, requirements, and user stories in Phabricator.
• Setting success metrics: defining hypotheses and measurement plans with the data analyst.
• Experimenting, releasing, and iterating intentionally to provide incremental value rapidly.
• Coordinating with the Group PM in collaboration with Communications, Marketing, and Legal functions.
• Collaborating with fellow apps product managers to stay aligned on higher-level strategic priorities.
• Owning the information for your workstreams: keeping decisions, notes, and open questions documented.
• Producing and updating community-facing documentation, and holding conversations with volunteer communities.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience managing user-facing products in a mobile-first environment.
• A track record of personally scoping and shipping features end to end in large-scale consumer apps.
• A hands-on, self-directed working style.
• Strong organization and documentation habits.
• Experience working with cross-functional teams.
• Success making decisions in fast-changing and ambiguous situations.
• 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.
• Experience with personalization features.
• Comfort using AI prototyping or “vibe coding” tools.
• Experience with push notifications, re-engagement, or other mobile growth features.
• Proficiency with data, reporting, analytics, or A/B testing.
• 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.
• Fluency in a language other than English.

Expected Deliverables

• Fun space in mobile apps with initial features in partnership with Marketing.
• Based on an A/B/C test, scope and launch a new game in the app.
• Overhaul reader Notifications in the app.
• Scope and release a consent flow for donors to sync their status with their account.
• Bring support for semantic queries at scale to the apps.
• Scope and release at least two new reader-focused features from our new feature backlog.
• Scope and release at least one donor retaining experiment in partnership with Fundraising.
• Scope and release at least one web feature Integration that brings engaged readers from Wikipedia on mobile web to the apps.
• Kick off and narrative decks, measurement plans agreed with the data analyst, public project pages, Phabricator epics, and user story tasks.
• Weekly progress updates in Asana and regular MediaWiki project page updates.
• Handoff documentation covering outcomes, learnings, open questions, and next steps for all work in progress.