Product Manager, Data Platform Engineering

Summary

Join the Wikimedia Foundation as a Group Product Manager, Data Platform Engineering and lead the development and evolution of data platforms used to understand how Wikipedia works, improve its experiences, and spread free knowledge. This leadership role involves strategic decision-making and tactical execution for Data Products, Data Engineering, Search, and Data Platform Site Reliability teams. You will collaborate with data analysts, researchers, and product teams, managing two product managers. Guide the evolution of data pipelines, data lake, experiment platform, and analytics tools using technologies like Kafka, Flink, Hadoop, Spark, Airflow, Iceberg, Kubernetes, Superset, and OpenSearch. Ensure the accuracy, usefulness, reliability, and accessibility of data products. This role reports to the Senior Director of Product, Core Experiences and requires availability for meetings between 15:00 UTC and 18:00 UTC, with international travel up to four times yearly.

Requirements

• Minimum of 5 years of product management experience with data or infrastructure products
• Experience hiring and managing product managers
• Success delivering data and analytical products and services depended on by multiple product teams
• Expertise in data analytics, A/B testing, search, and data architecture
• Strong understanding of modern techniques for handling high-scale data
• Knowledge of search technologies
• Experience navigating privacy issues around data collection, retention, and distribution
• Ability to work with multiple stakeholder teams to deliver results through lateral influence and collaboration
• Commitment to the mission and values of the Wikimedia Foundation
• Effective at asynchronous communication in a distributed workplace
• Able to navigate and make decisions in circumstances with limited, incomplete, and conflicting information
• Focus on iterative delivery and minimum viability to provide value to customer teams
• Effective at clear, written communication for strategy, plans, roadmaps, and decisions, for a wide range of audiences including individual contributor engineers, volunteer contributors, and department leadership

Responsibilities

• Ensure the accuracy, usefulness, reliability, and accessibility of our data products
• Define and setting priorities and roadmaps for Data Platform Engineering teams across four domains: data engineering, search, experimentation, and site reliability
• Product lifecycle management of the products, services, and tools of the Data Platform Engineering teams
• Co-developing product strategy, providing leadership, and making and facilitating sound decisions
• Managing and developing a team of product managers
• Partnering with user-facing product teams to use the data platform to guide product decisions and build derived-data products

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with open source, open data, or open knowledge communities
• Experience building products for multiple languages and geographies
• Experience with the integration of machine learning or artificial intelligence into web products
• Experience editing Wikipedia or with the Wikipedia, Wikidata, or Wikimedia Commons communities or other collaborative enterprises
• Open source software development experience
• Familiarity with MediaWiki