Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Wikimedia Foundation is a nonprofit organization operating Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects, aiming to provide free access to knowledge globally. They are seeking a Lead Product Manager for their Product Safety and Integrity team to oversee a cross-functional team, driving product development focused on online safety and security. This role involves working closely with community members and leveraging AI and machine learning to enhance Wikipedia's safety measures.
Responsibilities
- Helping to identify the right problems we need to solve, and guiding our work to where it will have the highest impact
- Leading the development of new products, features, and other technical interventions that make it hard and expensive for bad actors to undermine the security and privacy guarantees we make to our users
- Driving a cross-functional team including engineering, design, data science, community management, and other functions, to iteratively create and deploy these changes
- Driving product planning and feature prioritization with a focus on user impact, while using data and community feedback to drive decisions
- Proactively seeking ideas and feedback from user communities before and throughout product development, and generally maintaining strong and candid relationships with these communities on behalf of WMF and the PSI team
- Maintaining an understanding of current technologies and developments in online safety, security, and privacy
Skills
- At least 5 years of professional experience with product development, including agile development experience with developing internet- and consumer-facing software
- This experience doesn't necessarily need to come from having a formal Product Manager title, but should demonstrate past success at leading product initiatives that coordinated multiple functions across an organization
- Experience and comfort working directly and proactively to query and analyze data, and interrogating that data to drive measurable solutions
- 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
- Experience working directly in online security and privacy, on its own or as part of a larger product
- Experience working with online communities, especially public ones
- A background in software engineering or applied information security
Benefits
Company Overview
Wikimedia Foundation encourages the development and distribution of free educational content with projects such as Wikipedia. It was founded in 2003, and is headquartered in San Francisco, California, USA, with a workforce of 501-1000 employees. Its website is http://wikimediafoundation.org.