Make the internet a better place for free knowledge.

Advancement

• Endowment Director

  San Francisco, CA, Washington D.C. or Remote

  The Endowment Director will report to the Senior Director of Development.  Succeeding in this environment will require taking a hands-on approach to connecting with a broad array of donors using traditional development methods, strong people management skills, and leading the ongoing development of the infrastructure required to support the endowment. 

• Senior Manager, Endowment Development (Major Gifts)

  San Francisco, CA or Remote

  In 2016, we launched the Wikimedia Endowment in order to provide support to the Wikimedia projects in perpetuity. To date, we have grown the Endowment to over $58 million through a mix of individual contributions, corporate giving and planned giving. This position will play a key role in the team’s goal of raising $100 million by 2026. 

• Director of Community Investment

  San Francisco, CA or Remote

  The Director of Community Investment is charged with developing a grantmaking strategy to 1) Grow our communities of volunteers, especially in places in the world that are just coming online, 2) Empower our existing communities to be more effective in their work and 3) Ensure that community investments are made more equitably around the world.  You will do this by making grants to our Wikimedia affiliates, free knowledge ecosystem partners and individuals, with an emphasis on those who are organizing seedling efforts to sprout communities in emerging parts of the world. 

• Fundraising Production Coordinator (Email)

  San Francisco, CA or Remote

  The Wikimedia Foundation is looking for a Fundraising Production Coordinator (Email). to join our team, reporting to the Senior Fundraising Manager. As the Fundraising Production Coordinator, you will be a key participant in the online fundraising team’s year-round, multilingual fundraising and engagement campaigns.

• Fundraising Production Coordinator (Banner)

  San Francisco, CA or Remote

  The Wikimedia Foundation is looking for a Fundraising Production Coordinator (Banner) to join our team, reporting to the Program Manager.  As the Fundraising Production Coordinator (Banner), you will be a key contributor to our team’s year-round, multilingual fundraising campaigns.

• Donor Services Associate

  San Francisco, CA or Remote

  The Wikimedia Foundation’s Fundraising Operations Team is looking for a Donor Services Associate. The Donor Services team handles a high volume of donor inquiries during our global online fundraising campaigns. The Fundraising Donor Services Associate will support the team by responding to a wide range of donor inquiries using an online ticket-based customer service platform and perform other administrative tasks for the Operations team. This full-time position offers very flexible scheduling.

Communications

• Senior Manager, Global Marketing

  San Francisco, CA or Remote

  The Wikimedia Foundation seeks an innovative, collaborative leader to help define and oversee the execution of the global marketing plan to grow Wikipedia readership and editor usage worldwide.

• Brand Collaborations Lead (Brand Partnerships)

  San Francisco, CA or Remote

  We’re looking for a creative specialist to help us make even stronger brand collaborations. We need to increase awareness, understanding, and affinity for our brand through strong creative collaborations. Help us inspire the world and grow free knowledge!

• Senior Copywriter

  San Francisco, CA or Remote

  The Wikimedia Foundation seeks a dynamic Senior Copywriter professional excited to elevate the voices and stories of the free knowledge movement. The Copywriter will play a critical role in supporting the Brand Studio in connecting global audiences and lifting up the narrative of the future of free knowledge in the world.

Finance and Administration

• Senior Accountant

  San Francisco, CA

  The Wikimedia Foundation is looking for a Senior Accountant who will be a member of the accounting team and responsible for assisting with the execution of daily accounting processes, including accounts payable, accounts receivable, month-end close, and year-end tax preparation and audit processes in a fast paced, agile environment.  Under the supervision of the Accounting Manager, the Senior Accountant will partner with the Accounting team and other teams within the foundation to ensure that there are sufficient systems and procedures in place to provide effective support to existing and new program implementation.

• IT Systems Specialist

  San Francisco, CA

  Wikimedia Foundation is seeking an IT Systems Specialist to work within the team helping to support, maintain, troubleshoot and build out our internal IT systems. You are passionate about providing excellent support and services to our staff, while having the technical skills to improve systems and processes. Our team of IT professionals work collaboratively and cross functionally to escalate and resolve issues, while improving process. You will play a key role in assisting with the assessment, facilitation and implementation of industry standard tools (automation and unifying systems inspires you).

Legal

• Trust and Safety Specialist (Operations)

  San Francisco, CA or Remote

  The Trust and Safety Specialist works closely with others on the Trust and Safety team to help protect, empower, and engage people involved in or impacted by the Wikimedia movement. The Specialist seeks to protect and enhance the security of the platform and the communities we support; to thoroughly investigate and respond as directed to technical attacks, spam, threats of violence and other threats to the safety of the Wikimedia projects, communities and the public; and to facilitate the work of our vast community of international volunteers. 

Operations

• Evaluation Strategist, Grantmaking

  Remote

  The Wikimedia Foundation is looking for a collaborative, analytical, and creative Evaluation Strategist to monitor the outcomes and evaluate the impact of our grantmaking programs. We are seeking someone who is an early to mid-career Program Evaluator with experience designing theories of change, logic models, conducting mixed method applied research, and/or working in global philanthropy.

• Evaluation Associate (remote)

  Remote

  The Wikimedia Foundation is looking for an Evaluation Associate to join our team, reporting to the Manager of Learning & Evaluation. As the Evaluation Associate, you will support the Wikimedia Foundation's evaluation activities, helping inform the Foundation’s practices with sound data and clear insights.

Product

• VP, Product

  San Francisco, CA or Remote

  The Wikimedia Foundation is seeking an experienced executive to serve as the VP, Product for our Product department. At the Wikimedia Foundation, we operate the world’s largest collaborative project: a top ten website, reaching a billion people globally every month, while incorporating the values of privacy, transparency and community that are so important to our users.

• Technical Product Manager

  San Francisco, CA or Remote US

  The Wikimedia Foundation is looking for an experienced and collaborative Technical Product Manager to drive improvements to Wikipedia 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.

• Product Manager, Search

  San Francisco, CA or Remote

  Wikimedia is looking for an experienced and collaborative Product Manager for our Search team, to help build features 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.

Talent and Culture

• HR Operations Manager

  Remote

  The HR Operations team sits at the center of our Talent & Culture team, and stewards the employee experience at the Foundation. As an HR Operations Manager, your role will be both strategic and operational while leading a lean team of HR professionals. From onboarding, total rewards, staff changes, and offboarding, you will partner with various departments to uncover implementable solutions that empower our globally distributed teams to reach their full potential of delivering their best work. 

Technology

• VP, Data Science & Engineering

  San Francisco, CA or Remote

  The Wikimedia Foundation is seeking an experienced executive to serve as VP, Data Science & Engineering for our Technology department. Reporting to the Chief Technology Officer, the VP, Data Science & Engineering is a key member of the Foundation’s leadership team and an active participant in the strategic decision making framing the work of the technology department, the Wikimedia Foundation and the Wikimedia movement.

• Engineering Manager, Site Reliability

  San Francisco, CA or Remote

  Wikimedia’s Site Reliability Engineering team is principally responsible for ensuring our global top-10 web site, our public facing services and underlying infrastructure are healthy and developing further in support of Wikimedia’s mission. The SRE team comprises over 30 creative and talented staff members that are globally distributed and organized into 6 teams each with their own scope and focus area. We are strengthening the team and looking for several Engineering Managers to help our staff and teams achieve our goals.

• Database Architect

  San Francisco, CA or Remote

  As a Database Architect at the Wikimedia Foundation, you will be responsible for the architecture, design, availability and performance of our database infrastructure in a globally distributed infrastructure. You will work together with our developers and SREs on optimizing queries, schema design and coming up with a data strategy.

• Site Reliability Engineer

  San Francisco, CA or Remote

  The Wikimedia Foundation is hiring two Site Reliability Engineers to support and maintain (1) the data and statistics infrastructure that powers a big part of decision making in the Foundation and in the Wiki community, and (2) the search infrastructure that underpins all search on Wikipedia and its sister projects. This includes everything from eliminating boring things from your daily workflow by automating them, to upgrading a multi-petabyte Hadoop or multi-terabyte Search cluster to the next upstream version without impacting uptime and users.

• Software Engineer, Machine Learning

  San Francisco, CA or Remote

  The Scoring Platform team builds and maintains machine learning technologies to empower millions of users – readers, contributors, and donors – who contribute to Wikipedia and its sister projects on a daily basis.  We address process inefficiencies with machine learning technologies, we design and test new technology, we produce empirical insights, and we publish and present research on the intersection of technology and culture. We are strongly committed to principles of transparency, privacy and collaboration.  We use free and open source technology and we collaborate with researchers in the industry and academia.

• Senior Application Security Engineer

  Remote

  The Wikimedia Foundation is looking for an Application Security Engineer to join the Security team working to help protect Wikipedia and our other projects. You'll be working with other developers and security engineers to create new security features, review the security of other people's code, and help find and fix security bugs before they're exploited.

• Engineering Manager, Wikimedia Cloud Services

  San Francisco, CA or Remote

  Come work within the Technology department as part of the Technical Engagement group at the Wikimedia Foundation! We are looking for an experienced Engineering Manager to support our engineers on the Cloud Services team.

• System Architect

  San Francisco, CA or Remote

  The Wikimedia Foundation is hiring a Systems Architect to join our new Architecture Team to collectively shape and design Wikimedia’s future systems to support sharing the world’s knowledge. This role will be part of a small new team, but will work remotely and collaboratively across the organization and movement ensuring our systems enable users to document, create, share and seek the knowledge contained in Wikimedia Projects while making sure our systems are resilient, secure and scalable.

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