Senior Product Manager, Mobile Apps (Contract)

The Wikimedia Foundation is seeking a Senior Product Manager for its Mobile Apps team on a contract basis. The role will lead end-to-end product work focused on improving the experience of committed app users, including planning, shipping, measuring, and iterating on reader and donor growth features in collaboration with cross-functional teams and volunteer communities.

Responsibilities:

• Leading the product development process from ideation and discovery in a defined project area, through scoping, requirements, release and analysis, for features that convert web readers to retained app readers, and sustained app donors, within the guardrails of our OKRs, roadmap and strategic direction
• Scoping work realistically: breaking ambitious ideas into MVPs and phased releases that fit team capacity and the contract timeline, and making trade-offs explicit
• Writing clear, complete kick off decks, requirements and user stories in Phabricator that engineers, designers and other various stakeholders can build from without repeated clarification
• Setting success metrics: defining hypotheses and measurement plans with the data analyst before work enters development, then using quantitative and qualitative methods to evaluate impact
• Experimenting, releasing, and iterating intentionally to provide incremental value rapidly and validate hypotheses
• Coordinating with the Group PM in collaboration with the Communications, Marketing, and Legal functions to execute high-profile projects
• Collaborating with fellow apps product managers to stay aligned on higher-level strategic priorities, identify, and execute the direction of the apps team while honoring apps team culture
• Owning the information for your workstreams: keeping decisions, notes, and open questions documented in a single source of truth, and surfacing risks, blockers, and changes in direction early
• Producing and updating community-facing documentation, and holding conversations with volunteer communities to gather feedback on projects and ideas, collaboratively adapting plans when needed

Requirements:

• 3+ years of experience managing user-facing products in a mobile first environment, working on Android or iOS applications
• A track record of personally scoping and shipping features end to end in large-scale consumer apps
• A hands-on, self-directed working style: you are comfortable doing the detailed work yourself and moving projects forward with limited oversight
• Strong organization and documentation habits: you take thorough notes, build on context from earlier conversations, and keep a single source of truth for your projects
• 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
• Comfort using AI prototyping or “vibe coding” tools to explore ideas and create rough prototypes or wireframes
• Experience with push notifications, re-engagement, or other mobile growth 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