Lead Product Manager, Reader Growth at Wikimedia Foundation

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.