Senior Product Manager

Summary

Join the Wikimedia Foundation's Language and Product Localization team as a Product Manager and make a significant impact on one of the world's most popular media properties. You will work with a global team to develop and drive the strategy for user experience on Wikipedia, aligning with global trends in knowledge creation and consumption. Responsibilities include building product roadmaps, defining products, writing requirements, prototyping, developing, and launching products and features. You will collaborate with community members, researchers, engineers, designers, and other stakeholders to manage products through their full lifecycle. The ideal candidate has 3-5 years of experience as a product manager, expertise in user-facing products and mobile development, and experience working with diverse digital communities. This role requires proficiency in data analysis and collaboration within cross-functional teams.

Requirements

• 3 to 5 years of demonstrable experience as a product manager or equivalent role defining, designing, building and managing user-facing products
• Demonstrated success in growing a new user base or in launching new products
• Expertise in user-facing products, mobile application development and mobile user experience, creating demos and interactive prototypes
• Experience working with users and digital communities in the Middle East, Africa, South and South East Asia, or Latin America
• Experience writing requirements with the ability to translate complex technical requirements to make effective decisions and business cases. Experience in large refactors and migrations is a plus
• Proficiency with data, reporting, analytics, or A/B testing
• Experience working with cross-functional teams
• Experience working in an agile or iterative software development environment
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in relevant work experience
• Ability to clearly communicate product plans and results to stakeholders and collaborators
• A desire to make meaningful contributions to knowledge equity, free culture, and open access
• Awareness of multilingual digital content practices

Responsibilities

• Developing and driving strategy for user experience on Wikipedia in alignment with global trends evolving around knowledge creation and consumption
• Becoming an expert in the goals and challenges of users joining the Wikipedia community from different backgrounds, geographies, and experiences
• Building the product roadmap; defining products, writing requirements, prototyping, developing and launching products and features
• Determine concrete proposals and timely decisions through effective collaboration, data, and feedback process
• Managing products through the full product lifecycle, using both qualitative and quantitative methods to measure the impact of your work and clearly articulate long term vision for them
• Working with a cross-functional team to build products
• Collaborating with volunteer community members around the world
• Coordinating and collaborating across other departments, such as Marketing, Movement Communication, or Partnerships, that participate in expanding user engagement
• Releasing and iterating intentionally to provide incremental value and validate hypotheses

Preferred Qualifications

• Enthusiasm for user communities who love to create and contribute
• Experience working with communities, volunteers, or open source projects
• Experience working in a fully remote, geographically distributed, and asynchronous teams
• Experience with digital marketing tactics
• Understanding related to assessment of regulatory, geo-political, and policy impacts on product
• Experience with products backed by machine-learning
• Experience editing Wikipedia or contributing to other wiki projects
• Fluency in languages other than English