Engineering Manager - Feature Engineering

Summary

Join the Wikimedia Foundation as an Engineering Manager in the Feature Engineering department! You will lead and mentor a team focused on enhancing user experience across Wikimedia sites, impacting billions of users. Responsibilities include planning and prioritizing work, driving project execution, and ensuring team engagement. You will collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders, manage technical initiatives, and contribute to strategic direction-setting. This role requires significant experience in engineering management, full-stack web development, and working with distributed teams. The Wikimedia Foundation offers a competitive salary and benefits package.

Requirements

• 3-5 years of experience as an engineering manager or equivalent experience
• Technical expertise in fullstack web development
• Experience working with engineering teams with a focus on building user-facing web applications and services
• An established track record and prior success in working with a multicultural, distributed team
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English
• Excellent interpersonal skills–the ability to interact constructively and develop productive working relationships with management, peers, direct reports, and communities, including non-technical staff
• Experience with open source development methodologies and open source community
• Robust analytical, problem-solving, and conceptual skills with the ability to deliver on detail as well as strategy
• Must be comfortable with evolving requirements and priorities in a dynamic environment

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with your team and cross-functional stakeholders to plan, prioritize, and delegate work, balancing project goals with technical requirements and team skillsets
• Drive execution–ensuring projects are on track, key performance metrics are being met, and work is being actively unblocked
• Communicate proactively on progress, risks, and outcomes to stakeholders
• Ensure the engineering team is engaged and productive, and understands the big picture of the project and how their efforts contribute to it
• Coach your team, conduct performance reviews, provide career guidance, and build a professional and inclusive work culture
• Manage risk and succession planning for the project, documenting and implementing lifecycle management and best practices for the software we build
• Interview, hire, onboard, and mentor engineers with the goal of quickly making them productive and engaged members of your team
• Participate in strategic direction-setting, team formation, and staffing allocation

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with remote work and the level of engagement and communication it takes to build a geographically distributed team that is functional and healthy
• Experience with large-scale, global developer ecosystems and platforms and managing the risks and opportunities associated with them
• Alignment with our mission and values
• Resilience—we work on new and interesting problems in public and collaborative ways
• Working together for outcomes, and being willing to change course
• Sharing a culture of constructive criticism and respect
• Experience editing Wikipedia or with the Wikipedia, Wikidata, or Wikimedia Commons communities or other collaborative enterprises
• Familiarity with MediaWiki
• Experience supporting and leading teams developing Web-scale deployments in javascript and PHP

Benefits

• The anticipated annual pay range of this position for applicants based within the United States is US$ 127,714 to US$ 200,943 with multiple individualized factors, including cost of living in the location, being the determinants of the offered pay
• For applicants located outside of the US, the pay range will be adjusted to the country of hire