Senior Product Manager, Mobile Apps (Contract) - Wikimedia Foundation

Summary

Wikimedia is looking for an experienced product manager (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 with 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.

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.

Contract Details:

• Duration: 6-month contract (January through end of July, covering a parental leave)
• Hours: 40 hrs/week
• Overlap Requirements: Available for synchronous collaboration between 14:00-19:00 UTC
• Reporting To: Readers Group Product Manager

About This Role

This is a hands-on, individual contributor role. You will personally write requirements, file tasks, create measurement plans, and provide community updates for your workstreams, owning each step from ideation through release, analysis, and reporting.

Because this role covers a leave, the product manager who normally leads the App Growth team will not be available for day-to-day guidance for most of the contract. We are looking for someone self-directed and entrepreneurial who ramps up quickly, scopes ambiguous problems into shippable MVPs within weeks, and makes sound decisions independently.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the product development process from ideation and discovery through scoping, requirements, release, and analysis for features converting web readers to retained app readers and sustained donors.
• Scope work realistically into MVPs and phased releases fitting team capacity and the contract timeline.
• Write clear, complete kickoff decks, requirements, and user stories in Phabricator for cross-functional execution.
• Define hypotheses and measurement plans with data analysts before development, using quantitative and qualitative methods to evaluate impact.
• Experiment, release, and iterate intentionally to deliver rapid incremental value.
• Coordinate with the Group PM, Communications, Marketing, and Legal functions to execute high-profile projects.
• Collaborate with fellow apps product managers to maintain alignment on strategic priorities and honor apps team culture.
• Maintain single sources of truth for workstreams and surface risks, blockers, and direction changes early.
• Produce community-facing documentation and hold conversations with volunteer communities to gather project feedback.

Skills and Experience

• 3+ years of experience managing user-facing products in a mobile-first environment (Android or iOS).
• Track record of personally scoping and shipping features end-to-end in large-scale consumer apps.
• Hands-on, self-directed working style with strong organization and documentation habits.
• Proven experience working with cross-functional teams in agile or iterative environments.
• Success making decisions in fast-changing and ambiguous situations.
• Strong listening and written/verbal communication skills.
• Commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion, open access, and free culture.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent relevant work experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with two-sided platforms, marketplaces, or personalization features.
• Comfort using AI prototyping tools to explore ideas and create wireframes.
• Experience with push notifications, re-engagement, or mobile growth features.
• Proficiency with data, analytics, reporting, or A/B testing.
• Experience building products supporting ongoing user habits and retention.
• Experience working with fully remote, geographically distributed, or open-source volunteer communities.
• Experience editing Wikipedia or contributing to wiki projects.
• Experience with users in emerging markets (Middle East, Africa, South Asia, Latin America).
• Fluency in a language other than English.

Expected Deliverables

By the end of the contract, expected App Growth initiatives include:

• Launch initial features in the mobile apps fun space in partnership with Marketing.
• Scope and launch a new app game based on A/B/C test results.
• Overhaul reader notifications in the app.
• Scope and release a consent flow for donors to sync status with their accounts.
• Bring support for semantic queries at scale to the apps and improve search discovery.
• Scope and release at least two new reader-focused features from the backlog.
• Scope and release at least one donor retention experiment with Fundraising.
• Scope and release at least one web-to-app feature integration with Product Marketing.
• Deliver complete project documentation: kickoff decks, measurement plans, MediaWiki updates, Phabricator epics, Asana tracking, and handoff documentation.

Compensation & Location Eligibility

The anticipated annual base pay range for US-based applicants is US$111,974 to US$172,826. Compensation outside the US is adjusted based on the country of hire.

Supported Hire 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 (citizens/PR), Mexico, Morocco, Netherlands, Poland, Singapore (citizens/PR), South Africa, Spain, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom.