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Wikimedia is looking for an experienced product manager (6-month contract) for the Mobile Apps team in our Product department. The Product department builds the wiki experiences that enable our communities to achieve our vision: a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. This is an opportunity to have a tremendous impact on one of the most beloved parts of the internet. Wikipedia is one of the most popular media properties in the world, visited by over 1 billion people a month across over 300 different languages. All this knowledge is created and managed by more than 200,000 volunteer editors. The Wikipedia mobile apps are a fast and fun way to read Wikipedia. The Wikipedia apps for Android and iOS are ad-free and available in more than 300 languages. They are the best place to be a fan of Wikipedia and to learn. As a product manager with the Mobile Apps team (contract), you will work with engineers, designers, community members, other product managers, and our volunteer community to deliver on the reader strategy, with a focus on improving the experience of our most committed app users. This is a contract position to cover a parental leave (6 months). Candidates must be available for critical meetings and synchronous work between 14:00-19:00 UTC. This role will report to the Lead Product Manager, Mobile Apps.
Job Responsibility:
Leading the product development process to refine, develop, and deliver features that deepen app retention, support the Active→Contributor funnel, and sustain app donors, within the guardrails of our OKRs and strategic direction
Collaborating with fellow apps product managers to stay aligned on higher-level strategic priorities, identify, and execute the direction of the apps team
Work with the other apps product managers to discover and define new opportunities to set future KRs
Producing and updating community facing documentation
Setting priorities for a cross-functional product team of a designer, engineering manager, software engineers, QA engineer, data analyst, and community relations specialist
Experimenting, releasing, and iterating intentionally to provide incremental value rapidly and validate hypotheses
Using quantitative and qualitative methods to evaluate impact
Requirements:
5+ years of experience as a Product Manager
3+ years of experience managing user-facing products in a mobile first environment, working on Android or iOS applications
Demonstrated success in launching new features in large-scale consumer apps
Experience working with cross-functional teams
Success making decisions in fast-changing and ambiguous situations
Experience working in an agile or iterative software development environment
Commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion
Strong listening skills
Ability to clearly communicate plans and results to stakeholders and collaborators verbally and in written form
Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in relevant work experience
A desire to make meaningful contributions to knowledge equity, free culture, and open access
Nice to have:
Experience with a two-sided platform or marketplace product
Experience with personalization features
Proficiency with data, reporting, analytics, or A/B testing
Experience building products that support positive user habits, engagement, or ongoing value creation over time
Experience with fully remote, geographically distributed, and asynchronous teams
Experience working with communities, volunteers, or open source projects
Experience editing Wikipedia or contributing to other wiki projects
Experience with users in emerging markets, such as the Middle East, Africa, South Asia, or Latin America