Senior Product Manager, Mobile Apps (Contract)

Wikimedia Foundation is looking for an experienced product manager for the Mobile Apps team in their Product department. In this role, you will lead the product development process, collaborating with cross-functional teams to enhance user experience and app retention.

Responsibilities:

• Leading the product development process to refine, develop, and deliver features that deepen app retention, support the Active→Contributor funnel, and sustain app donors, within the guardrails of our OKRs and strategic direction
• Collaborating with fellow apps product managers to stay aligned on higher-level strategic priorities, identify, and execute the direction of the apps team
• Work with the other apps product managers to discover and define new opportunities to set future KRs
• Producing and updating community facing documentation
• Setting priorities for a cross-functional product team of a designer, engineering manager, software engineers, QA engineer, data analyst, and community relations specialist
• Experimenting, releasing, and iterating intentionally to provide incremental value rapidly and validate hypotheses
• Using quantitative and qualitative methods to evaluate impact

Requirements:

• 5+ years of experience as a Product Manager
• 3+ years of experience managing user-facing products in a mobile first environment, working on Android or iOS applications
• Demonstrated success in launching new features in large-scale consumer apps
• Experience working with cross-functional teams
• Success making decisions in fast-changing and ambiguous situations
• 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 verbally and in written form
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in relevant work experience
• A desire to make meaningful contributions to knowledge equity, free culture, and open access
• Experience with a two-sided platform or marketplace product
• Experience with personalization features
• Proficiency with data, reporting, analytics, or A/B testing
• 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