Group Product Manager, Data Platforms

The role

Guide the development of data platforms that show how Wikipedia works and help improve its experiences. Lead a team of two product managers across data engineering, experimentation, search, and data platform site reliability.

What you will do

• Ensure the accuracy, usefulness, reliability, and accessibility of data products
• Set priorities and roadmaps for Data Platform Engineering teams across four domains
• Manage product lifecycle of the products, services, and tools of the Data Platform Engineering teams
• Co-develop product strategy, provide leadership, and make and facilitate sound decisions
• Manage and develop a team of product managers
• Partner with user-facing product teams to use the data platform to guide product decisions and build derived-data products

Required qualifications

• 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 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 make decisions with limited, incomplete, and conflicting information
• Effective at clear, written communication for a wide range of audiences

Nice to have

• 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

Benefits

• U.S. Benefits & Perks offered

Before you apply

• Hiring is limited to listed US states, Puerto Rico, the District of Columbia, and listed countries
• Non-US employees are hired through a local third party Employer of Record and must have current work authorization in their location
• Some countries (Kenya, Singapore) require citizenship or permanent residence

About the company

The Wikimedia Foundation is a nonprofit that operates Wikipedia and other free knowledge projects. It relies on donations and is a US 501(c)(3) organization with offices in San Francisco, California.