Senior Product Manager

Summary

Join the Wikimedia Foundation as a Senior Product Manager to contribute to Abstract Wikipedia, a project focused on expanding access to encyclopedic knowledge globally. This role involves developing a product roadmap, aligning stakeholders, managing the product lifecycle, and using data to inform decisions. You will deeply understand community needs, establish product development processes, and prioritize new products and services. This is a unique opportunity to build the future of the internet and significantly increase access to free knowledge. The position requires a minimum of 5 years of product management experience in software development and strong communication skills. The role involves working with an international team across multiple time zones.

Requirements

• Minimum 5 years of product management experience in software development
• A structured yet flexible approach to product development, capable of adapting methodologies to fit the needs of our team and organization
• Experience developing and refining product management frameworks, demonstrating a deep understanding of product strategy, execution, and decision-making
• Past success in breaking down ambiguous projects into clear tasks, with a bias toward action
• Outstanding written and verbal communication skills, with an ability to clearly and proactively communicate plans and results to stakeholders and collaborators
• Excellent follow-up, attention to detail, time management, and project management skills
• Ability to interact effectively and develop productive working relationships with management, peers, and communities
• An interest in and ability to work remotely with a distributed team across time zones
• Comfortable with evolving requirements and priorities in a dynamic environment

Responsibilities

• Develop a roadmap that balances short-term execution with long-term strategic goals
• Build alignment between stakeholders and the community to define and drive the product vision and strategy
• Own the end-to-end product lifecycle, from ideation to launch and iteration
• Use qualitative and quantitative methods to inform decisions, discover opportunities, and measure impact
• Deeply understand our community needs, releasing features iteratively to deliver value and validate hypotheses
• Establish and refine product development processes and best practices
• Bring structured thinking to product discovery, prioritization, and decision-making
• Lead the prioritization of new products and services, as well as our product backlog
• Communicate trade-offs to drive product decisions and move the team forward
• Communicate a clear product vision to internal and external audiences

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with natural language processing, computational linguistics or knowledge management technologies
• Experience with multilingual products or platforms, good understanding of internationalization and localization
• Experience editing Wikimedia projects

Benefits

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