Product Manager, New Readers at Wikimedia Foundation

Job description

Summary

The Wikimedia Foundation is looking for an experienced, collaborative, and entrepreneurial Product Manager for emerging markets to help engage and delight new readers of Wikipedia. In this role, you will work with the New Readers program to define product strategy and prototype, test, and build new features for mobile devices.

Product Managers at the Wikimedia Foundation work with researchers, engineers and designers to build features, products and services used by hundreds of millions of people around the world to learn and share knowledge.

As a Product Manager, you will:

• Ideate and develop new mobile products to enable the growing mobile population in emerging markets to consume educational information.
• Work with a highly talented team of engineers and designers to define, design, and build features that are designed for cheap phones on slow networks, in multiple languages
• Understand the needs of users in order to prioritize new features and product enhancements for the development team using qualitative research and an understanding of local nuances in various markets
• Release early and often, getting feedback from users to help improve features.
• Use both qualitative and quantitative methods to measure the impact of features
• Make a difference in the world!

Requirements:

• Product Management experience with a mobile app or mobile web property in emerging markets
• Experience launching and growing products in emerging markets
• Experience working with multilingual products
• Experience working in an agile software development environment
• Demonstrated understanding of modern mobile technologies and industry trends
• Outstanding written and verbal communication skills
• Passion for participatory (vs. read-only) experiences on the web
• Live in time zones GMT to GMT +5:30

Pluses:

• Experience editing Wikipedia or contributing to other Wikimedia projects
• Experience with open source software development
• Familiarity with MediaWiki is a plus
• Experience with delivering high quality and user friendly participatory design
• Experience working remotely

Benefits & Perks

• Fully paid medical, dental and vision coverage for employees and their eligible families (yes, fully paid premiums!)
• The Wellness Program provides reimbursement for mind, body and soul activities such as fitness memberships, baby sitting, continuing education and much more
• The 401(k) retirement plan offers matched contributions at 4% of annual salary
• Flexible and generous time off - vacation, sick and volunteer days, plus 19 paid holidays - including the last week of the year.
• Family friendly! 100% paid new parent leave for seven weeks plus an additional five weeks for pregnancy, flexible options to phase back in after leave, fully equipped lactation room.
• For those emergency moments - long and short term disability, life insurance (2x salary) and an employee assistance program
• Pre-tax savings plans for health care, child care, elder care, public transportation and parking expenses
• Telecommuting and flexible work schedules available
• Appropriate fuel for thinking and coding (aka, a pantry full of treats) and monthly massages to help staff relax
• Great colleagues - diverse staff and contractors speaking dozens of languages from around the world, fantastic intellectual discourse, mission-driven and intensely passionate people