About the role
The Wikimedia Foundation is looking for a collaborative Senior Product Manager to support our work on Abstract Wikipedia, a project that aims to increase access to encyclopedic knowledge by enabling more people to share more knowledge in more languages.
We're committed to making knowledge available to everyone globally. This is an opportunity to do good while building new technology at the intersection of machine learning, natural language generation, and computational linguistics.
Abstract Wikipedia is a visionary project that asks, what if we could write Wikipedia articles once, in an abstract form, and then translate it into any language by building a community-edited natural language system to generate readable text? The technical foundation for this future is Wikifunctions, a multilingual, open-source catalog of code functions that anyone can use, remix, test, and learn from.
The Senior Product Manager is accountable for turning the vision of Abstract Wikipedia into a tangible impact. This is a one-of-a-kind opportunity to build the future of the Internet and radically expand access to free knowledge. You will be working on an international team based in time zones UTC-4 to UTC+1.
You are responsible for:
Developing a roadmap that balances short-term execution with long-term strategic goals.
Building alignment between stakeholders and the community to define and drive the product vision and strategy.
Owning the end-to-end product lifecycle, from ideation to launch and iteration.
Using qualitative and quantitative methods to inform decisions, discover opportunities, and measure impact.
Deeply understanding our community needs, releasing features iteratively to deliver value and validate hypotheses.
Establishing and refining product development processes and best practices.
Bringing structured thinking to product discovery, prioritization, and decision-making.
Leading the prioritization of new products and services, as well as our product backlog.
Communicating trade-offs to drive product decisions and move the team forward.
Communicating a clear product vision to internal and external audiences.
About the company
The Wikimedia Foundation is the nonprofit organization that operates Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia free knowledge projects. Our vision is a world in which every single human can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. We believe that everyone has the potential to contribute something to our shared knowledge, and that everyone should be able to access that knowledge freely. We host Wikipedia and the Wikimedia projects, build software experiences for reading, contributing, and sharing Wikimedia content, support the volunteer communities and partners who make Wikimedia possible, and advocate for policies that enable Wikimedia and free knowledge to thrive.
The Wikimedia Foundation is a charitable, not-for-profit organization that relies on donations. We receive donations from millions of individuals around the world, with an average donation of about $15. We also receive donations through institutional grants and gifts. The Wikimedia Foundation is a United States 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization with offices in San Francisco, California, USA.
