Group Product Manager, Data Platforms
Job description
Group Product Manager leading the Data Platform Engineering teams at the Wikimedia Foundation, guiding the development and evolution of the data platforms used to understand and improve Wikipedia and its sister projects. This is a people management role managing two product managers and sharing leadership with the Director of Engineering for Data Platform Engineering.
At a glance
- Employment
- Full-time
- Work mode
- Remote · United States, Brazil, Canada, Colombia +14
What you'll do
- Ensuring the accuracy, usefulness, reliability, and accessibility of our data products
- Defining and setting priorities and roadmaps for Data Platform Engineering teams across four domains: data engineering, search, experimentation, and site reliability
- Product lifecycle management of the products, services, and tools of the Data Platform Engineering teams
- Co-developing product strategy, providing leadership, and making and facilitating sound decisions
- Managing and developing a team of product managers
- Partnering with user-facing product teams to use the data platform to guide product decisions and build derived-data products
What we're looking for
- Minimum of 5 years of product management experience with data or infrastructure products
- Experience hiring and managing product managers
- Success delivering data and analytical products and services depended on by multiple product teams
- Expertise in data analytics, A/B testing, search, and data architecture
- Strong understanding of modern techniques for handling high-scale data
- Knowledge of search technologies
- Experience navigating privacy issues around data collection, retention, and distribution
- Ability to work with multiple stakeholder teams to deliver results through lateral influence and collaboration
- Commitment to the mission and values of the Wikimedia Foundation
- Effective at asynchronous communication in a distributed workplace
- Able to navigate and make decisions in circumstances with limited, incomplete, and conflicting information
- Focus on iterative delivery and minimum viability to provide value to customer teams
- Effective at clear, written communication for strategy, plans, roadmaps, and decisions, for a wide range of audiences including individual contributor engineers, volunteer contributors, and department leadership
Nice to have
- Experience with open source, open data, or open knowledge communities
- Experience building products for multiple languages and geographies
- Experience with the integration of machine learning or artificial intelligence into web products
- Experience editing Wikipedia or with the Wikipedia, Wikidata, or Wikimedia Commons communities or other collaborative enterprises
- Open source software development experience
- Familiarity with MediaWiki
Your team
Data Platform Engineering
Data Engineering, Experimentation, Search, and Data Platform Site Reliability teams
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About Wikimedia Foundation
The Wikimedia Foundation is the nonprofit organization that operates Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia free knowledge projects. We host Wikipedia and the Wikimedia projects, build software experiences for reading, contributing, and sharing Wikimedia content, support the volunteer communities and partners who make Wikimedia possible, and advocate for policies that enable Wikimedia and free knowledge to thrive.
Mission
A world in which every single human can freely share in the sum of all knowledge.
Key facts
- San Francisco, California, USA
- Nonprofit
- Charitable, not-for-profit organization that relies on donations
- Receives donations from millions of individuals around the world, with an average donation of about $15
- Also receives donations through institutional grants and gifts
- United States 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization
- Remote-first organization with staff members including contractors based in 40+ countries
- Wikipedia and its sister projects are visited by over 1 billion people a month across over 300 different languages