Group Product Manager, Data Platforms - Wikimedia Foundation

Summary

Wikipedia and its sister projects are among the most popular media properties in the world, visited by over 1 billion people a month across over 300 different languages. These sites generate a tremendous amount of data on how people learn and collaborate. The Wikimedia Foundation is looking for a Group Product Manager to guide the development and evolution of our data platforms—the collection of technologies used to understand how Wikipedia works, improve its experiences, and spread free knowledge.

The Group Product Manager is a leader in strategic decision-making and tactical execution for the Data Engineering, Experimentation, Search, and Data Platform Site Reliability teams. This role shares leadership responsibility with the Director of Engineering for Data Platform Engineering and works in collaboration with data analysts, researchers, and product teams building user-facing features for reading and editing Wikipedia on the web and mobile apps. This is a people management role, managing two individual contributor product managers.

In this role, you and your group of product managers will guide the evolution of data pipelines, data lake, experiment platform, and analytics tools. This includes ingestion, orchestration, computation, and serving data using technologies such as Kafka, Flink, Hadoop, Spark, Airflow, Iceberg, Kubernetes, Superset, dbt, and OpenSearch.

This position reports to the Senior Director of Product, Core Experiences.

Candidates must be available for critical meetings and synchronous work between 15:00 UTC and 18:00 UTC, and open to traveling internationally up to four times per year.

Responsibilities

• Ensure the accuracy, usefulness, reliability, and accessibility of data products.
• Define and set priorities and roadmaps for Data Platform Engineering teams across four domains: data engineering, search, experimentation, and site reliability.
• Manage product lifecycle for the products, services, and tools of the Data Platform Engineering teams.
• Co-develop product strategy, provide leadership, and facilitate sound decisions.
• Manage and develop a team of product managers.
• Partner with user-facing product teams to use the data platform to guide product decisions and build derived-data products.

Requirements

• Minimum of 5 years of product management experience with data or infrastructure products.
• Experience hiring and managing product managers.
• Proven success delivering data and analytical products and services depended on by multiple product teams.
• Expertise in data analytics, A/B testing, search, and data architecture.
• Strong understanding of modern techniques for handling high-scale data.
• Knowledge of search technologies.
• Experience navigating privacy issues around data collection, retention, and distribution.
• Ability to work with multiple stakeholder teams to deliver results through lateral influence and collaboration.

Desired Qualities

• Commitment to the mission and values of the Wikimedia Foundation.
• Effective at asynchronous communication in a distributed workplace.
• Able to navigate and make decisions in circumstances with limited, incomplete, and conflicting information.
• Focus on iterative delivery and minimum viability to provide value to customer teams.
• Effective written communication for strategy, plans, roadmaps, and decisions across technical and non-technical audiences.

Nice to Have

• Experience with open source, open data, or open knowledge communities.
• Experience building products for multiple languages and geographies.
• Experience with the integration of machine learning or artificial intelligence into web products.
• Experience editing Wikipedia or involvement with Wikipedia, Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons, or other collaborative enterprises.
• Open source software development experience.
• Familiarity with MediaWiki.

Compensation & Hiring Locations

• US Pay Range: $131,926 to $206,302 USD annually (adjusted based on specific location and factors).
• International Hiring: Pay ranges are adjusted to the country of hire.
• Eligible Hiring Locations:
  • US States: AZ, CA, CO, CT, DC, FL, GA, ID, IL, IN, IA, MD, MA, MI, MN, MO, NJ, NM, NY, NC, OH, OK, OR, PA, PR, RI, TN, TX, UT, VT, VA, WA, WV, WI, WY.
  • Countries: Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Germany, Ghana, India, Indonesia, Italy, Kenya, Mexico, Morocco, Netherlands, Poland, Singapore, South Africa, Spain, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom. (Non-US employees are hired via a local Employer of Record).

About the Wikimedia Foundation

The Wikimedia Foundation is the nonprofit organization that operates Wikipedia and other free knowledge projects. Our vision is a world in which every single human can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. We are a remote-first organization with staff members and contractors based in over 40 countries.