Summary
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.
Responsibilities
- 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.
Skills and experience
- 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.
Additionally, we’d love it if you had
- 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.
- Fluency in a language other than English.
