Lead Product Manager, Abstract Wikipedia

Employment Type: [Not Specified] Location Type: Remote Salary: [Not Specified]

Position Overview

The Wikimedia Foundation is seeking a collaborative Lead Product Manager to support our work on Abstract Wikipedia. This visionary project aims to increase access to encyclopedic knowledge by enabling more people to share more knowledge in more languages. We are committed to making knowledge available globally and this role offers an opportunity to contribute to building new technology at the intersection of machine learning, natural language generation, and computational linguistics.

Abstract Wikipedia envisions a future where Wikipedia articles can be written once in an abstract form and then translated into any language through a community-edited natural language system. The technical foundation for this is Wikifunctions, a multilingual, open-source catalog of code functions.

As the Lead Product Manager, you will be accountable for turning the vision of Abstract Wikipedia into tangible impact, building the future of the Internet and radically expanding access to free knowledge. You will work with an international team based in time zones UTC-4 to UTC+1.

Responsibilities

• Developing a roadmap that balances short-term execution with long-term strategic goals.
• Building alignment between stakeholders and the community to define and execute the product vision and strategy.
• Owning the end-to-end product lifecycle, from ideation to launch and iteration.
• Using qualitative and quantitative methods to inform decisions, discover opportunities, and measure impact.
• Deeply understanding community needs, releasing features iteratively to deliver value and validate hypotheses.
• Establishing and refining product development processes and best practices.
• Bringing structured thinking to product discovery, prioritization, and decision-making.
• Leading the prioritization of new products and services, as well as our product backlog.
• Communicating trade-offs to drive product decisions and move the team forward.
• Communicating a clear product vision to internal and external audiences.

Skills and Experience

Required:

• Minimum 7 years of product management experience in software development.
• A structured yet flexible approach to product development, capable of adapting methodologies to fit team and organizational needs.
• Experience developing and refining product management frameworks, demonstrating a deep understanding of product strategy, execution, and decision-making.
• Past success in breaking down ambiguous projects into clear tasks, with a bias toward action.
• Outstanding written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to clearly and proactively communicate plans and results to stakeholders and collaborators.
• Excellent follow-up, attention to detail, time management, and project management skills.
• Ability to interact effectively and develop productive working relationships with management, peers, and communities.
• An interest in and ability to work remotely with a distributed team across time zones.
• Comfortable with evolving requirements and priorities in a dynamic environment.

Preferred:

• Experience with natural language processing, computational linguistics, or knowledge management technologies.
• Experience with multilingual products or platforms, with a good understanding of internationalization and localization.
• Experience editing Wikimedia projects.

About the Wikimedia Foundation

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...