Lead Product Manager, Reader Growth

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Company Details
Industry: Non-Profit Organization Management
Description: The Wikimedia Foundation is the nonprofit that hosts Wikipedia and our other free knowledge projects. We want to make it easier for everyone to share what they know. To do this, we keep Wikipedia and Wikimedia sites fast, reliable, and available to all. We protect the values and policies that allow free knowledge to thrive. We build new features and tools to make it easy to read, edit, and share from the Wikimedia sites. Above all, we support the communities of volunteers around the world who edit, improve, and add knowledge across Wikimedia projects.
Job Description

You are responsible for:

 

Leading the development of modern and engaging Wikipedia learning experiences on both the desktop and mobile websites.

 

Driving a cross-functional team of engineers, a designer, community specialist, and data analyst to build and deploy features and experiments.

 

Working with the team to design lightweight experiments that can scale to fully deployed features.

 

Applying the use of standardized measurement practices (such as A/B testing and user research) and also developing creative approaches to learn in our privacy-sensitive environment.

 

Tracking and communicating progress, and maintaining planning artifacts such as roadmaps, specs and release plans.

 

Working with the Communications, Marketing, and Legal functions to execute high-profile projects.

 

Proactively conducting conversations with volunteer communities to brainstorm and gather feedback on projects and ideas, and collaboratively adapting plans when needed.

 

Maintaining an understanding of current developments and innovations in knowledge seeking, AI, and industry best practices.

 

Persevering through setbacks to ensure team goals are met, or communicating when a pivot may be necessary.

 

Developing an understanding of the diversity of our global user base and how it drives our work

 

Skills and Experience:

 

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience in a professional setting

 

8 years of professional experience, including at least 5 years as a product manager working with consumer-facing software development teams, preferably in an agile environment

 

Strong understanding of the current knowledge landscape, modern learning preferences, and content discovery trends 

 

Past success building and iterating high-scale consumer-facing products on both desktop and mobile websites.

 

Mastery of applying controlled experiments to make product decisions.

 

Past success leading product initiatives that coordinate multiple teams/functions across an organization.

 

Strong written and verbal communication skills and the ability to interact effectively with all levels of management, staff, and communities

 

Capable of managing a diverse range of responsibilities in a dynamic and results-oriented environment. Must be comfortable with evolving requirements and priorities.

 

 

 

Education: Degree, Diploma
Employment Type: Remote

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