Group Product Manager, Data Platform Engineering at Wikimedia Foundation

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Not SpecifiedCompensation

Expert & Leadership (9+ years)Experience Level

Full TimeJob Type

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Non-profit, Biotechnology, MediaIndustries

Requirements

Candidates must have a minimum of 5 years of product management experience with data or infrastructure products, including experience hiring and managing product managers. Proven success in delivering data and analytical products and services relied upon by multiple teams is essential, along with expertise in data analytics, A/B testing, search, and data architecture. A strong understanding of modern high-scale data handling techniques, knowledge of search technologies, and experience navigating data privacy issues are also required. The ability to influence and collaborate with multiple stakeholder teams to achieve results is crucial. Candidates must be available for critical meetings between 15:00 UTC and 18:00 UTC and open to international travel up to four times per year. Experience with open source, open data, or open knowledge communities is a plus.

Responsibilities

The Group Product Manager will guide the strategic decision-making and tactical execution for Data Products, Data Engineering, Search, and Data Platform Site Reliability teams. This role involves managing and developing a team of two product managers, overseeing the evolution of data pipelines, data lake, experiment platform, and analytics tools, including ingestion, orchestration, computation, and data serving. Responsibilities include ensuring the accuracy, usefulness, reliability, and accessibility of data products, defining and setting priorities and roadmaps for Data Platform Engineering teams across four domains, and managing the product lifecycle of their services and tools. The role also entails co-developing product strategy, providing leadership, making sound decisions, and partnering with user-facing product teams to leverage the data platform for product decisions and derived-data products.

Skills

Data Platforms

Data Engineering

Data Pipelines

Data Lake

Experiment Platform

Analytics Tools

Kafka

Flink

Hadoop

Spark

Airflow

Iceberg

Kubernetes

Superset

OpenSearch

Product Analytics

People Management

Strategic Decision-Making

Tactical Execution

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