Not SpecifiedCompensation
Expert & Leadership (9+ years)Experience Level
Full TimeJob Type
UnknownVisa
Legal Services, Nonprofit OrganizationIndustries

Position Overview

  • Location Type: Remote
  • Employment Type: Full-time
  • Salary: Not specified

Summary: The Wikimedia Foundation is seeking an Associate General Counsel to support the Deputy General Counsel in leading key functions within the Legal team. This role will focus on refining privacy and product counseling workflows, advising Foundation engineers, and ensuring the privacy of Wikimedia readers, contributors, and donors. The ideal candidate will be a hands-on leader with significant management experience, adept at collaborating with technical teams and providing guidance on privacy and security matters.

Requirements

  • Experience leading and managing legal teams.
  • Expertise in advising online platforms, particularly with privacy and security.
  • Strong transactional and product counseling experience.
  • Familiarity with online communities.
  • Ability to develop and implement legal strategies.
  • Excellent communication and collaboration skills.

Responsibilities

  • Advise the Deputy General Counsel, General Counsel, and Senior Leadership team on legal and regulatory matters, especially pertaining to privacy and security.
  • Collaborate with legal department staff members to define and shape a renewed vision and strategy for the Foundation’s privacy team.
  • Manage a team providing strong transactional and product counseling support for engineers/technologists.
  • Strengthen and improve internal workflows and collaboration relating to product counseling and engineering-related legal advice.
  • Oversee an annual refresh of the Wikimedia Foundation Privacy Policy to keep pace with applicable regulation, the protection of user data, and new and evolving features on the Wikimedia projects.
  • Support internal and external communication campaigns to educate staff, users, and other stakeholders on the evolution of the policy.

Application Instructions

  • Not specified

Company Information

  • Organization: Wikimedia Foundation
  • Mission: Wikimedia envisions a world where the sum total of human knowledge is available to everyone. The Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit home of Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons, and other free educational projects, serves as the hub of a global movement of hundreds of thousands of contributors collaborating to collect and share the sum of all human knowledge with the world.

Skills

Legal team management
Privacy counseling
Product counseling
Legal advising for online platforms
Transactional law
Security and privacy expertise
Legal strategy development
Communication
Collaboration

Wikimedia Foundation

Operates Wikipedia and free knowledge projects

About Wikimedia Foundation

The Wikimedia Foundation operates Wikipedia and other free knowledge projects, aiming to create a world where everyone can freely access and share knowledge. It provides a platform for users to read, contribute, and share content, while also supporting the volunteer communities that help maintain these projects. The foundation is funded by donations from individuals and institutions, emphasizing its nonprofit status. Unlike many other organizations, it focuses on making knowledge accessible to all without charge, advocating for policies that support free knowledge initiatives. Its goal is to empower individuals to contribute to and benefit from a collective pool of knowledge.

San Francisco, CaliforniaHeadquarters
2003Year Founded
$145.9MTotal Funding
GRANTCompany Stage
Social Impact, EducationIndustries
501-1,000Employees

Benefits

Remote Work Options

Risks

Reliance on Nvidia's AI tech may affect Wikimedia's data processing autonomy.
DSA audit could reveal vulnerabilities requiring significant resources to address.
Decentralized platforms like Mastodon may divert users from Wikipedia.

Differentiation

Wikimedia Foundation operates the world's largest free online encyclopedia, Wikipedia.
It supports a diverse range of projects like Wiktionary and Wikisource.
The Foundation is a non-profit, relying on global donations for funding.

Upsides

Nvidia's NeMo Retriever tech reduced Wikipedia processing time from 30 days to 3 days.
Holistic AI's audit under the DSA enhances Wikimedia's platform safety and accountability.
Collaboration with Open Foundation West Africa combats misinformation during Ghana's elections.

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