Senior Product Manager, Connection Team (Contract)

Wikimedia is looking for an experienced product manager for the Connection team to cover a parental leave. The role involves leading product development to enhance the contributor experience and collaborating with various stakeholders to deliver meaningful features and opportunities.

Responsibilities:

• 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

Requirements:

• 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
• 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
• 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