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