Product Manager, Language and Product Localization

Position Overview

Wikimedia is seeking an experienced Product Manager to join the Product and Technology department. This role focuses on creating products and features for users of the multilingual Wikimedia sites, contributing to the vision of a world where everyone can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. This is a significant opportunity to impact one of the internet's most recognized platforms.

Wikipedia serves over 1 billion users monthly across more than 300 languages, with content created and managed by over 200,000 volunteer editors. The Language and Product Localization team aims to drive product innovation in visually rich, mobile-friendly, and multilingual workflows. The team supports internationalization, localization, and translation tools, addressing the unique challenges of connecting a diverse, globally dispersed user base. A recent milestone includes the Content Translation tool, used to create over 2 million Wikipedia articles since 2015. The team's challenge is to maintain the multilingual strength of Wikimedia projects while addressing knowledge inequity and leveraging existing knowledge-sharing practices for solutions.

Responsibilities

• Strategy Development: Develop and drive user experience strategy for Wikipedia, aligning with global trends in knowledge creation and consumption.
• User Expertise: Become an expert on the goals and challenges of Wikipedia users from diverse backgrounds, geographies, and experiences.
• Product Roadmap & Delivery: Build the product roadmap, define products, write requirements, prototype, develop, and launch products and features.
• Decision Making: Make concrete proposals and timely decisions through effective collaboration, data analysis, and feedback processes.
• Product Lifecycle Management: Manage products through their full lifecycle, measuring impact using qualitative and quantitative methods, and articulating long-term vision.
• Cross-functional Collaboration: Work with a cross-functional team to build products.
• Community Engagement: Collaborate with volunteer community members worldwide.
• Interdepartmental Coordination: Coordinate and collaborate with other departments (e.g., Marketing, Movement Communication, Partnerships) to expand user engagement.
• Iterative Release: Release and iterate intentionally to provide incremental value and validate hypotheses.

Requirements

• 3 to 5 years of demonstrable experience as a product manager or in an equivalent role, defining, designing, building, and managing user-facing products.
• Demonstrated success in growing a new user base or launching new products.
• Expertise in user-facing products, mobile application development, and mobile user experience.
• Experience creating demos and interactive prototypes.
• Experience working with users and digital communities in the Middle East, Africa, South, and South East Asia.

Preferred Location

For suitable overlap with the rest of the team, candidates based in locations within UTC+0000 and UTC+0530 are preferred.

Company Information

Wikimedia Foundation is dedicated to a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. The Product and Technology department builds the wiki experiences that enable communities to achieve this vision.