Wikimedia Foundation

Lead Product Manager, Reader Growth

Remote

Not SpecifiedCompensation
Senior (5 to 8 years)Experience Level
Full TimeJob Type
UnknownVisa
Internet, Media, Non-profitIndustries

Position Overview

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

The Wikimedia Foundation is seeking an enterprising Lead Product Manager to help evolve the Wikipedia reading experience for a new generation of readers. This role will be part of the newly formed Reader Growth team within the Product and Technology department. The Product and Technology department is responsible for building the wiki experiences that enable our communities to achieve our vision: a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge.

Wikipedia is one of the most popular media properties in the world, visited by over 1 billion people a month across over 300 different languages. More than 99% of these users – logged-out readers on our mobile or desktop websites – are driven by curiosity, and it’s this curiosity that motivates thousands of volunteer editors to keep building Wikipedia.

New generations of internet users prefer to learn in new ways. The Reader Growth team will develop novel ways of engaging with Wikipedia content, building features that enable readers to browse and discover content more intuitively, contextualize and frame knowledge in novel ways, and engage with visual, audio, and other multimedia formats that align with modern preferences. As the product manager on this cross-functional team, you will be responsible for leading the team to ideate on new experiences, rigorously test and iterate, and scale features to millions of people across hundreds of languages. This is an opportunity to have a tremendous impact with one of the most beloved parts of the internet.

This role reports to the Group Product Manager, Readers.

Candidates must be available for critical meetings and synchronous work between 15:00 UTC and 18:00 UTC, and open to traveling internationally up to four times per year.

Requirements

  • Not specified

Responsibilities

  • Leading the development of modern and engaging Wikipedia learning experiences on both the desktop and mobile websites.
  • Driving a cross-functional team of engineers, a designer, community specialist, and data analyst to build and deploy features and experiments.
  • Working with the team to design lightweight experiments that can scale to fully deployed features.
  • Applying the use of standardized measurement practices (such as A/B testing and user research) and also developing creative approaches to learn in our privacy-sensitive environment.
  • Tracking and communicating progress, and maintaining planning artifacts such as roadmaps, specs, and release plans.
  • Working with the Communications, Marketing, and Legal functions to execute high-profile projects.
  • Proactively conducting conversations with volunteer communities to brainstorm and gather feedback on projects and ideas, and collaboratively adapting plans when needed.
  • Maintaining an understanding of current developments and innovations in knowledge seeking, AI, and industry best practices.
  • Persevering through setbacks to achieve goals.

Skills

Product Management
Cross-functional Team Leadership
Ideation
Testing
Iteration
Feature Scaling
User Experience
Mobile
Desktop
Multimedia

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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