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Senior Manager, Major Gifts & Planned Giving

Remote

We are looking for a Senior Manager, Major Gifts & Planned Giving to lead the team who are responsible for our $10,000+ fundraising and planned giving efforts.  These fundraising programs support both the Wikimedia Foundation and the Wikimedia Endowment.  The person in this role will play a critical part in our growing major gifts program, as it becomes an increased focus of our diversified revenue plan. They will also lead the strategy and implementation driving the maturation of our planned giving program.

Senior Process Analyst, Community Organizing Experience

Remote

The Community Growth team seeks to hire a Senior Process Analyst, Community Organizing Experience to help guide our contributors to effectively reach shared goals in improving encyclopedic content, enhancing the contributor experience and building  connection and community on our projects and in our movement. The Senior Process Analyst, Community Organizing Experience will be responsible for co-designing organizing processes, and supporting organizers to use evidence-based workflows to reach our diverse community of volunteers globally.

Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Data Engineering

Remote

The Wikimedia Foundation is looking for a SRE Data Engineer to join our team, reporting to the Director of Fundraising Technology. As a Senior SRE Data Engineer, you will be responsible for the building, maintaining and operating of the data infrastructure that supports the Foundation’s fundraising program. The fundraising program supplies the operating costs of Wikipedia, its sister projects, and helps fund the Wikimedia Endowment.

Email Developer (Fundraising) – Contractor

Remote

The Wikimedia Foundation is looking for an Email Developer (Fundraising) to join the Online Fundraising team, reporting to Email Manager, Fundraising products. As the Email Developer (Fundraising), you will play a critical role in the online fundraising team’s year-round, multilingual fundraising and engagement campaigns, with a particular focus on email production.

Communications

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Finance and Administration

Senior Financial Analyst

Remote

We are looking for a Senior Financial Analyst to join our Financial Planning & Analysis team, reporting to the Senior Manager of finance. As the Senior Financial Analyst on the team, you will develop a comprehensive understanding of our revenue channels and grants programs and provide analytical insight into the financial data for senior executives, managers, and program owners. Your data-driven work supports our Foundation’s vision of a world in which every single human can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. You will provide globally distributed teams with insightful analysis, planning, and reporting support. 

Legal

Legal Fellow (Summer 2025)

Remote

If you’re a current law student or recent law school graduate passionate about free knowledge and open source issues, applying to our legal fellowship program can provide an immersive in-house experience with specific education and training in the areas of Internet law and free knowledge organizations. 

People Department

Lead Employee Relations Partner

Remote

The Wikimedia Foundation is seeking a Lead Employee Relations Partner to join the People Department. This role will report to the VP, People Experience and will partner closely with the entire People Leadership Group as a true cross-functional resource. In this role, you will guide the initial development of a global Employee Relations function to ensure that the Foundation treats every staff member fairly, respectfully, and consistently in line with our values, policies, and core mission. The right individual will be able to balance proactive and reactive work, as both are critical components of the role. While this is an individual contributor role to start, the right individual will be interested in people management and experience in that field. 

Manager, People Experience

Remote

The Wikimedia Foundation is seeking a Manager, People Experience to join the People Department. We believe that our people are our most important asset, and the policy and practice work of our People department is critical to identifying, supporting, developing, and retaining excellent colleagues who advance the Foundation’s mission. This role will report to the Sr. Manager, Global People Experience and will manage a US team to provide expertise on US-based employment regulations, HR policies, US benefits regulations, and HR compliance across multiple states where our employees are based. In addition to a deep understanding of HR, this individual will incorporate our people-first philosophy and organizational values to serve foundation staff.

Product & Technology

Software Engineering Internship Program (2025)

Remote

We are looking for graduates, non-graduates, or those seeking a career change who are interested in developing software engineering skills through an immersive “learn on the job” internship program. As an intern, you will be embedded into an engineering team within our Product and Technology departments and assigned a primary project with clear deliverables. Alongside your manager and dedicated mentor, you will learn the inner workings of our open source code that helps to create “a world in which everyone can freely share in the sum of all knowledge”.  You will work with software that serves over half a billion page views per day through Wikipedia (and other Wikimedia projects). The outcome of your work will impact how all people everywhere discover, share, and contribute to free knowledge.

Senior Machine Learning Engineer

Remote

The Wikimedia Foundation is looking for a Senior Machine Learning Engineer to join a small team spread across UTC -5 to UTC +3 (Eastern Americas, Europe, and Africa) and will report to the Machine Learning Engineering Manager, Ilias Sarantopoulos. As a Senior Machine Learning Engineer, you will be responsible for planning, developing, training, documenting, deploying, and managing production machine learning models. In this role, you will work with product teams, SREs, researchers, and the volunteer community on machine learning models making Wikipedia and similar projects better.

Senior Engineering Manager – Mediawiki Interfaces

Remote

The Wikimedia Foundation is looking for an Engineering Manager to join and lead the MediaWiki Interfaces team. This role reports to the Director, MediaWiki Engineering and involves directly managing an engineering team and partnering with the Product Manager, Mediawiki Interfaces on projects that empower others to build on top of MediaWiki through mechanisms such as Extensions and APIs.

Director of Site Reliability Engineering

Remote
We are strengthening the team and looking for a Director of Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) to lead our staff and ensure teams achieve our goals, towards our mission of providing the essential infrastructure for free knowledge. Wikimedia Foundation’s SRE teams are responsible for ensuring our global top-10 web site Wikipedia, its sister projects and other public facing services are healthy, and for developing its infrastructure, platform and services further in the enablement of Wikimedia Foundation’s mission. The SRE sub-department as a whole comprises over 50 creative and talented staff members who are globally distributed, organized into seven teams each with their own scope and focus area. The role reports to the VP of Site Reliability Engineering & Security.

Senior Product Manager, Data Platform

Remote
As a Senior Product Manager for our Data Platform, you will shape the future of how Wikimedia’s vast data ecosystem serves both our internal teams and the global community. You will guide the Data Platform Engineering team’s effort to unify data systems across the Wikimedia Foundation to deliver scalable solutions that support the open knowledge movement.

Manager, User Experience Research

Remote
We’re hiring a UX Research Manager strongly committed to the principles of free knowledge, human-centered research, open source and open data, transparency, privacy, and collaboration to join the Research team. As our UX Research Manager you will be leading and supporting a small and talented team of design researchers and a program manager to oversee research that informs and advances Wikipedia’s product, technology, and design developments across more than 300 languages.

Engineering Manager, Abstract Wikipedia

Remote

The Wikimedia Foundation is looking for an experienced Engineering Manager to support and drive our work on Abstract Wikipedia, a project that aims to improve knowledge equity by enabling more people to share more knowledge in more languages.

Senior Database Administrator

Remote

The Wikimedia Foundation is seeking a Senior DBA. Our objective is to make the sum of all human knowledge available to everyone, and we persist most of this knowledge in MariaDB. Our project sites are some of the most highly visited on the internet, with more page views per engineer than any other site.

Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Databases

Remote

The Wikimedia Foundation is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer (Databases). Our objective is to make the sum of all human knowledge available to everyone, and we persist most of this knowledge in MariaDB. Our project sites are some of the most highly visited on the internet, with more page views per engineer than any other site.

Staff Software Security Engineer (PHP)

Remote

The Wikimedia Foundation is looking for a Staff Security Software Engineer to join the Product Security team to build new security technologies to protect Wikipedia and our other projects. This is a very hands-on engineering role working alongside our other security team members to design and code new features to protect and reassure our users and to ensure the platform remains resilient against attacks.

Senior Software Security Engineer (PHP)

Remote

The Wikimedia Foundation is looking for a Senior Software Security Engineer (PHP) to join the Product Security team to build new security technologies to protect Wikipedia and our other projects. This is a very hands-on engineering role working alongside our other security team members to design and code new features to protect and reassure our users and to ensure the platform remains resilient against attacks.

Values

We are in this mission together

We do great work and improve

We welcome everyone who shares our Vision and Values

We listen and share with curiosity

Read more about our values.

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Commitment

We trust our personal and organizational accountability

We envision a world in which every single person can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. We believe knowledge belongs to everyone, and in order to empower people from diverse backgrounds to participate in the collaborative creation of knowledge, we need to build diverse teams that reflect the communities we support and an inclusive culture of belonging that embraces the potential of our diversity.

We believe in co-creating safe, respectful and collaborative work spaces. We aspire to generate a sense of belonging by understanding each and everyone’s differences, contexts and experiences. Through our actions, we ensure that the staff at the Foundation has a healthy work environment where they can flourish.

We acknowledge diversity as a core value that is essential to fulfilling our mission.

We are an equal opportunity employer and do not tolerate any form of discrimination. This enables us to attract, develop, and retain amazing talent.

We are committed to cherishing our differences, and putting people first. We seek to foster a creative environment that unleashes innovative solutions toward building  a more inclusive and equitable hiring and retention process. This commitment starts at the top of our organization and moves through every level of hiring from managers to individual contributors. We strive to ensure excellence in our work by building this path together.

We have released two Diversity and Inclusion Reports (2018, 2019) to hold ourselves accountable for our actions towards creating a more diverse and inclusive workplace. This practice helps us to make visible not only our progress, but also the areas where we know we should and will improve.

Equal Employment Opportunity Statement

As an equal opportunity employer, the Wikimedia Foundation values having a diverse workforce and continuously strives to maintain an inclusive and equitable workplace. We encourage people with a diverse range of backgrounds to apply. We do not discriminate against any person based upon their race, traits historically associated with race, religion, color, national origin, sex, pregnancy or related medical conditions, parental status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, genetic information, or any other legally protected characteristics.

If you are a qualified applicant requiring assistance or an accommodation to complete any step of the application process due to a disability, you may contact us at recruiting@wikimedia.org or +1 (415) 839-6885.

United States Benefits and Perks

Health Care Benefits

Fully paid medical, dental, and vision insurance premiums for employees and their eligible families.

New Parent Leave

We provide a total of 16 weeks of paid new parent leave, plus an additional 8 weeks of paid pregnancy leave.

Wellness Reimbursement Program

We provide $450 per quarter up to $1,800.00 a year for reimbursement for staff wellness expenses, such as gym fees, educational expenses, and more!

Professional Development Program

We offer reimbursement of conferences, college/university classes, online programs, and books related to work that supports the Wikimedia Foundation.

401(k) Retirement Plan

401(k) retirement plan with matched contributions up to 4% of annual salary.

Time Off

Generous paid time off policy which includes: vacation days, holidays, sick leave, and volunteer days.

Pre-tax Savings Plans

For health care, child care, elder care, public transport, and parking expenses. Includes an employer funded HSA option.

Disability & Life Insurance

Long and short term disability, life insurance (2x salary) and an employee assistance program.

Equipment Stipend

Equipment including a laptop, monitor, plus a one-time $600 stipend to cover any additional needs to make sure you have the best work from home experience.

*Please note that for remote roles located outside of the U.S., we defer to our EOR (Employer of Record) to ensure alignment with local labor laws.

Current Hiring Locations

The Wikimedia Foundation is a remote-first organization with staff members including contractors based in 40+ countries. 

Please note that we are currently able to hire in the following countries: Australia, Austria, Bangladesh, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Costa Rica, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Egypt, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Ghana, Greece, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Kenya, Mexico, Netherlands, Nigeria, Peru, Poland, Singapore, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Uganda, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States of America and Uruguay.  

We periodically review this list to streamline to ensure alignment with our hiring requirements. 

Our non-US based employees are hired through a local third party Employer of Record (EOR).

Compensation Philosophy

Salaries at the Wikimedia Foundation are set in a way that is competitive, equitable, and consistent with our values and culture.  

In compliance with local legislation within the US, we post the anticipated annual pay range for each position for applicants with multiple individualized factors, including cost of living in the location, being the determinants of the offered pay.  

For applicants located outside of the US, the pay range will be adjusted to the country of hire. 

We neither ask for nor take into consideration the salary history of applicants. The compensation for a successful applicant will be based on their skills, experience and location. 

All applicants can reach out to their recruiter to understand more about the specific pay range for their location during the interview process.

Applicant Privacy Policy

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