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 developing 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 unique opportunity to significantly impact one of the most widely used platforms on the internet.

Wikipedia is a global media property, visited by over 1 billion people monthly across 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 and opportunities of connecting a diverse, globally dispersed user base. A recent milestone includes the Content Translation tool, used to create over 2 million articles since 2015. The team's challenge is to maintain the multilingual strength of Wikimedia projects while addressing knowledge inequity and creating innovative solutions.

As a Product Manager on this team, you will collaborate with community members, researchers, engineers, designers, program managers, and partners to define strategy, build roadmaps, and deliver products that inspire users to consume, contribute, and share free knowledge in their own languages and through new formats. Your work will also contribute to the broader, multigenerational vision of the Wikimedia movement.

Preferred Location: Candidates located within UTC+0000 and UTC+0530 are preferred for team alignment.

Responsibilities

• Develop and drive user experience strategy for Wikipedia, aligning with global trends in knowledge creation and consumption.
• Become an expert on the goals and challenges of users from diverse backgrounds, geographies, and experiences engaging with the Wikipedia community.
• Build product roadmaps, define products, write requirements, create prototypes, and manage the development and launch of products and features.
• Make concrete proposals and timely decisions through effective collaboration, data analysis, and feedback processes.
• Manage products throughout their full lifecycle, utilizing qualitative and quantitative methods to measure impact and articulate long-term vision.
• Collaborate with a cross-functional team to build products.
• Engage with volunteer community members worldwide.
• Coordinate and collaborate with other departments (e.g., Marketing, Movement Communication, Partnerships) to expand user engagement.
• Release and iterate intentionally to deliver incremental value and validate hypotheses.

Skills and Experience

• 3 to 5 years of demonstrable experience as a Product Manager or in an equivalent role, with a track record of defining, designing, building, and managing user-facing products.
• Proven success in growing a new user base or launching new products.
• Expertise in user-facing products, mobile application development, and mobile user experience, including creating demos and interactive prototypes.
• Experience working with users and digital communities in the Middle East, Africa, South and Southeast Asia, or Latin America.
• Experience writing requirements.