Lead Product Manager

Summary

Join the Wikimedia Foundation as a Lead Product Manager to lead the vision, strategy, and roadmap of the Wikidata query platform. You will shape the future of how users query and access Wikidata at scale, guiding short- and long-term roadmaps for stable, reliable, and sustainable data access. Collaborate with engineering and product teams at Wikimedia and Wikimedia Deutschland (WMDE) to deliver, develop, and operate Wikidata platform products and services. Modernize data access infrastructure, improve self-service capabilities for communities, and guide Wikidata query services to meet growth in data and demand. This is a remote position with some travel required, instrumental in improving one of the top 15 websites globally. You will work with a distributed team across time zones and contribute to the Wikimedia Foundation's mission of freely sharing human knowledge.

Requirements

• 8+ years of product management experience with large-scale, API-driven data platform products with technical user bases
• Deep understanding of database and knowledge graph representation technologies and standards
• Experience navigating issues associated with privacy-sensitive data
• Past success in breaking down ambiguous projects into clear tasks
• Past success working with multiple stakeholder teams to deliver results through lateral influence and collaboration
• Strong collaborative problem-solving skills and ability to lead a product team effectively to deliver a project from idea to production
• Outstanding written and verbal communication skills, with an ability to clearly and proactively communicate plans and results to technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Able to navigate and make decisions in circumstances with limited, incomplete, and conflicting information
• Curiosity and commitment to continuous learning
• Resilience and patience in a large and complex ecosystem of stakeholders
• An interest in and ability to work remotely with a distributed team across time zones
• Emotional intelligence, kindness, and the ability to listen, understand, and respond to multiple perspectives
• Commitment to the mission of the organization, our values, and guiding principles

Responsibilities

• Product lifecycle management of the Wikidata Query Service (WDQS) and related successor services
• Collaborating with technical stakeholders to discover user needs and translating them into prioritized system requirements based on goals and intended outcomes
• Developing and maintaining prioritized product roadmaps
• Tracking and communicating progress on product development goals, especially towards key results (in our OKR framework)
• Ensuring the privacy, security, and integrity of our data products
• Iterative and measurable progress towards longer-term goals
• Maintaining an understanding of current developments and innovations in structured knowledge representation technologies
• Persevering through setbacks to ensure team goals are met, or communicating when a pivot may be necessary
• Developing an understanding of our movement and how it drives our work

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with open source, open data, or open knowledge communities
• Experience as a contributor on Wikipedia, Wikidata, or in Wikimedia project communities
• Experience delivering data platform capabilities that you can share with us during interviews
• Experience with data analysis to inform decisions and understand impact

Benefits

• Remote work, flexible hours
• Salaries at the Wikimedia Foundation are set in a way that is competitive, equitable, and consistent with our values and culture