Senior Growth Product Manager
Mozilla- Full Time
- Senior (5 to 8 years)
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.
Operates Wikipedia and free knowledge projects
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.