Senior Legal Counsel Job at Wikimedia Foundation

Senior Legal Counsel

Wikimedia Foundation

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Legal

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Salary:

109920.00 - 167448.00 USD / Year

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Job Description:

Wikimedia envisions a world where the sum total of human knowledge is available to everyone. The Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit home of Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons, and other free educational projects, serves as the hub of a global movement of hundreds of thousands of contributors collaborating to collect and share the sum of all human knowledge with the world. Protecting the privacy of Wikimedia readers, contributors, and donors is a key element of our work as an organization. Our Legal team counsels the Foundation as they create tools and features for Wikipedia, secure the websites, and collaborate with volunteer developers to design and build the future of the projects. We are looking for Senior Legal Counsel to support the Fundraising, Product and Engineering teams in a product counsel capacity, with a special focus on marketing and product development needs across departments.

Job Responsibility:

Analyzing current and forthcoming regulations related to marketing, customization, and other fundraising initiatives to support Advancement, Product and Technology teams on marketing and mobile app development
Collaborating with the Foundation's lawyers and public policy professionals to address the impact of Generative AI and create a global legal ecosystem in which free knowledge can thrive with minimal disintermediation
Identifying and executing opportunities to advance the Wikimedia mission within a complex, shifting technological and legal landscape
Supporting the Product and Engineering teams in developing a data governance model that allows for novel features while maintaining high privacy standards, for example in the space of reader engagement

Requirements:

J.D. from accredited U.S. law school or equivalent foreign degree preferably paired with significant U.S. legal experience
Experience with product, privacy, marketing and other internet law issues, advising a user-facing digital technology or internet company (e.g., as in-house counsel), preferably with global reach
5-7 years experience with legal review of go-to-market, fundraising, technical products or online services
Significant experience working with engineering colleagues as a counselor and advisor to achieve organizational goals
Excellent written and verbal communication skills and attention to detail, full fluency in written and spoken English

Nice to have:

Experience with marketing, fundraising and campaign customization, and online communities
A degree or work experience in marketing, campaign management, computer science, engineering, or related experience, and have a good understanding of fundraising, marketing and software engineering processes and issues
Ability to speak other languages, experience living or working outside the United States, or past work on international legal issues

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Job Posted:
April 16, 2026

Employment Type:

Fulltime

Work Type:

Remote work

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