Senior Product Manager, Connection Team (Contract)

Remote Apply Summary Wikimedia is looking for an experienced product manager (contract) for the Connection team in our Product department to cover for a parental leave. The Product department builds the wiki experiences that enable our communities to achieve our vision: a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. This is an opportunity to have a tremendous impact with one of the most beloved parts of the internet. Wikipedia is one of the most popular media properties in the world, visited by over 1 billion people a month across over 300 different languages. All this knowledge is created and managed by more than 200,000 volunteer editors. The Connection team aims to provide contributors with moments of motivation, recognition, and connection to create a more meaningful contributor experience. Our main projects have been focused on building software to help event organizers and participants collaborate with each other and understand their collective impact. With this as our foundation, we are now ready to think more holistically about investing more in the moments that create meaning for our volunteers, motivating them to keep coming back. As the product manager with the Connection team (contract), you will work with community members, researchers, engineers, and designers to deliver on thecontributor strategy, with a focus on making the contributing experience more meaningful. This is a contract position to cover a parental leave (4 months with a potential to extend to 8 months). This role reports to the Group Product Manager, Contributors. Candidates must be available for critical meetings and synchronous work between 15:00 UTC and 18:00 UTC. You are responsible for:

Leading the product development process to define, develop, and deliver features to make the contributing experience more meaningful within the guardrails of our OKRs.
With the help of the Group Product Manager discovering and defining new opportunities to set future KRs.
Setting priorities for a cross-functional product team of a designer, engineering manager, software engineers, and community relations specialist.
Collaborating with community ambassadors and volunteer community members around the world who participate in the Connection team's product development process.
Collaborating with fellow product managers to stay aligned on higher-level strategic priorities.
Coordinating and collaborating across other departments, such as Community Growth.
Releasing and iterating intentionally to provide incremental value and validate hypotheses.
Using quantitative and qualitative methods to evaluate impact.

Skills and Experience:

5+ years of experience as a Product Manager
3+ years of experience managing user-facing consumer web products
Demonstrated success in launching new features
Experience working with cross-functional teams
Experience working in an agile or iterative software development environment
Commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion
Strong listening skills
Ability to clearly communicate plans and results to stakeholders and collaborators
Bachelors degree or equivalent in relevant work experience
A desire to make meaningful contributions to knowledge equity, free culture, and open access

Qualities that are important to us:

Experience with a two-sided platform or marketplace product
Proficiency with data, reporting, analytics, or A/B testing
Experience building features for mobile devices
Experience building products that support positive user habits, engagement, or ongoing value creation over time
Experience with fully remote, geographically distributed, and asynchronous teams
Experience working with communities, volunteers, or open source projects
Experience editing Wikipedia or contributing to other wiki projects
Experience with users in emerging markets, such as the Middle East, Africa, South Asia, or Latin America
Fluency in a language other than English

About the Wikimedia Foundation

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 Wikipediaandthe Wikimedia projects build software experiences for reading contributing,and sharing Wikimedia content supportthe volunteer communitiesand partners who make Wikimedia possible,and advocatefor policies that enable Wikimediaand free knowledgeto thrive. The Wikimedia Foundation is a charitable not-for-profit organization that relies on donations.We receive donations from millions of individuals aroundthe worldwith an average donationof about $15.We also receive donations through institutional grantsand gifts.The Wikimedia Foundationis a United States501(c)(3) tax-exempt organizationwith officesin San Francisco California USA. *As an equal opportunity employer* ,the Wikimedia Foundation values havinga diverse workforceand continuously strives tomaintain an inclusiveandequitable workplace.We encourage peoplewitha diverse rangeof backgroundsto apply.We do not discriminate against any personbased upon their race traits historically associatedwith race religion color national origin sex pregnancyor related medical conditions parental status sexual orientation gender identity gender expression age statusas aprotected veteran statusasan individualwithadisability genetic information or anyother legally protected characteristics. The Wikimedia Foundationisaremote-first organizationwith staff members including contractors based40+ countries* .SalariesattheWikimediaFoundationaresetina waythat is competitive equitableand consistentwithour valuesand culture.The anticipated hourly rate rangeof this positionfor applicants basedwithin United Statesis US$52/hourto US$80/hourwith multiple individualized factors including costof livingin location beingdeterminantsofoffered pay.For applicants located outside US pay rangewill be adjusted country hire.We neither ask nor take into consideration salary history applicants.Compensation successful applicantwill bebased skills experience location. *Please note we are currently able hire following:* US States: Arizona California Colorado Connecticut District Columbia Florida Georgia Idaho Illinois Indiana Iowa Maryland Massachusetts Michigan Minnesota Missouri New Jersey New Mexico New York North Carolina Ohio Oklahoma Oregon Pennsylvania Puerto Rico Rhode Island Tennessee Texas Utah Vermont Virginia Washington West Virginia Wisconsin Wyoming (US Territory or Federal District) *Countries: Brazil Canada Colombia France Germany Ghana India Indonesia Italy Kenya Mexico Morocco Netherlands Poland Singapore South Africa Spain Switzerland United Kingdom . Our non-US employees hired through local third party Employer Record (EOR) must have current work authorization location . (citizens/permanent residents only) We periodically review list streamline ensure alignment hiring requirements. All applicants can reach out recruiter understand more about specific pay range location during interview process. If you are qualified applicant requiring assistance accommodation complete any step application process due disability you may contact us at recruiting@wikimedia.org or +1 (415)839-6885 .* More information Applicant Privacy Policy Wikimedia Foundation What does Wikimedia Foundation do? What makes Wikipedia different from social media platforms? Our Projects Our Tech Stack News from across Wikimedia movement Wikimedia Blog Wikimedia2030