Make the internet a better place for free knowledge.

Advancement

• Major Gifts Officer

  Remote

  The Wikimedia Foundation is looking for a Major Gifts Officer for our Endowment team. This role is a critical part of the Wikimedia Foundation’s fundraising team, focused on raising current and planned gifts for the Wikimedia Endowment. 

• Senior Data Analyst (Contract)

  Remote

  The Fundraising Operations team is looking for an experienced Senior Data Analyst to join our team, to support the process of making data driven decisions to improve the effectiveness of our fundraising strategies, while staying true to our values of openness, transparency and respect of user privacy. This will be a full time (40 hours/week) contractor position. As the Senior Data Analyst, you will be reporting to and work closely with the Lead Data Strategist to support, optimize and enhance the real-time reporting structure that powers the Fundraising Analytics team - as well using that infrastructure to generate powerful insights that inform the strategy of the Fundraising team at large.

• Senior Software Engineer, Wikimedia Enterprise

  Remote

  The Wikimedia Foundation is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our team, reporting to Product Manager. As the Senior Software Engineer, you will be a core member of the Wikimedia Enterprise engineering team and will contribute heavily to some of the high impact challenges behind innovating, building, and maintaining Wikipedia’s data feeds for high volume reusers. You will also be a leader in the long term strategy of the project, working with tech leadership to propose infrastructure that meets goals of our movement and the needs of our customers. In this role, you will become an expert on AWS and the tradeoffs of different infrastructure setups for short and long term sustainability of large scale data products. You will work directly with tech and product leadership to craft strategy, and directly with the engineering team to build better software that will meet requirements from our customers.

• Senior Frontend Developer, Online Fundraising

  Remote

  The Wikimedia Foundation’s Online Fundraising team is looking for an experienced developer to join our team as Senior Frontend Developer, Online Fundraising, reporting to the Sr. Manager, Growth and Innovation. As the Senior Frontend Developer, Online Fundraising, you will work closely with our creative leads to implement innovations in our front-end flow that enable us to reach our $100M+ revenue goals and increase progress for our key performance indicators. You will work with our Lead Developer to maintain our front-end codebase, identify areas of improvement in the donor experience, and implement technical solutions that enable donor acquisition, retention, and engagement.

• Senior Program Officer, Community Resources

  Remote

  The Senior Program Officer is charged with co-designing and implementing 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. 

Communications

• Communications Associate

  Remote

  The Wikimedia Foundation seeks a dynamic, entry-level communications professional excited to elevate the voices and stories of the free knowledge movement.  The Communications Associate will play a critical role supporting a growing Communications department in connecting with global audiences and lifting up the narrative of free knowledge in the world.  This is a highly collaborative role for a detail-oriented self-starter, with regular opportunities to shape, coordinate, and implement key communications initiatives and campaigns to support the Wikimedia Foundation’s key priorities in public policy, education, technology, equity, and more.

• Marketing Manager

  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. In this role, you will work with Wikimedia Foundation communications, product, advancement, community, partnership, and creative colleagues to build and execute global multi-channel marketing campaigns. This position will lead the current team responsible for the management and implementation of the growth marketing plan and content strategy.  You will transform market research and audience insights into marketing plans inclusive of lifecycles and journeys, creative input briefs, media plans, content strategies to deliver target goals.

• Principal Internal Communications Lead (Global)

  Remote

  This role requires a seasoned expert to lead strategies focused on creating an engaged and informed staff at the Wikimedia Foundation and helping to shape a culture of resilience and belonging. Reporting to the Chief Creative Officer, you will collaborate closely with executives and the communications team to co-create culture change through internal communications across the organization.

• Senior Manager, Movement Communications

  Remote

  The Wikimedia Foundation is seeking a Senior Manager, Movement Communications to lead the implementation of our agile movement communications strategy: Help build a consistent narrative and shared movement story that showcases the contributions of the global movement and reflects our work to further the movement’s mission. 

Executive

• Chief Executive Officer and Executive Director

  Remote (U.S. based)

   

  We are growing the free knowledge movement.

   

  We are looking for a Chief Executive Officer and Executive Director to join us.

   

  Learn more in our prospectus.

   

  Please share nominations or submit a resume and cover letter to:wikimediafoundation@viewcrestadvisors.com.

Finance and Administration

• Senior Accountant

  San Francisco (remote during pandemic)

  The Senior Accountant is 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.

Legal

• Senior Counsel (Employment)

  Remote

  The Wikimedia Foundation is looking for a lawyer to join our in-house legal department as Senior Counsel to provide critical advice and counsel on a variety of matters. The position will be responsible for advising on employment matters relating to our global workforce, as well as the Foundation’s efforts relating to diversity, equity, and inclusion. The attorney will provide support to other areas of the Foundation’s legal operations, including our transactions workflow. 

• Privacy Program Manager

  Remote

  The Wikimedia Foundation is looking for a Privacy Program Manager to join our in-house legal department to help coordinate and evolve Wikimedia’s Privacy program. This will include managing, triaging and supporting our privacy workflows. Ideal candidates will not only have the skills to manage a privacy portfolio, but will also connect with Wikimedia’s mission and understand the importance of privacy in our unique context.

   

• Movement Advocacy Community Manager

  Remote

  The Wikimedia Foundation is looking for a Movement Advocacy Community Manager. This position will report to one of our Lead Public Policy Managers in the Legal Department’s Public Policy Team, and be responsible for  organizing and activating the Wikimedia community to advocate for open knowledge. You will help increase engagement among a wider community of Wikimedia volunteers, and strengthen Wikimedia's ability to influence policy development around the world. In this role, you will work closely with the Communications Team, Wikimedia volunteers, and external partners to communicate complex policy positions to a broad and passionate volunteer community. 

• Senior Public Policy Specialist

  Remote

  The Wikimedia Foundation is looking for a Senior Public Policy Specialist to join our team, reporting to a Lead Public Policy Manager.  As the Senior Public Policy Specialist, you will be responsible to increase Wikimedia’s ability to influence public policy debates to promote free knowledge in the Asian context. In this role, you will expand Wikimedia’s network and relationships, engage in public policy processes, and monitor current developments in Asia and around the world to help the Public Policy Team promote people’s ability to participate in knowledge online.

• Trust and Safety Specialist

  Remote

  The Wikimedia Foundation is looking for a Trust & Safety Specialist to join our team, reporting to the Trust and Safety Operations Manager and partners closely with the Security team.  As the Trust & Safety Specialist, you will be responsible to work closely with others on the Trust and Safety team to help protect, empower, and engage people involved in or impacted by the Wikimedia movement.

• Trust & Safety Specialist (Disinformation)

  Remote

  The Wikimedia Foundation is seeking a Trust & Safety Specialist focused primarily on Disinformation to join the Legal department to help advance the Wikimedia movement’s vision of every human being able to freely share in the sum of all knowledge; as well as its strategic direction - that by 2030, Wikimedia will become the essential infrastructure of the ecosystem of free knowledge, and anyone who shares our vision will be able to join us.

Operations

• Senior Consultant, Business Intelligence

  Remote

  The Wikimedia Foundation is looking for a Senior Consultant, Business Intelligence, to join our team, reporting to the Director of Global Data and Insights.  As the Senior Consultant, you will be responsible for designing the roadmap of this new Business Intelligence practice at Wikimedia Foundation. In this role, you will work with all departments to converge on critical metrics to measure organizational effectiveness and to design a data pipeline for an org-level dashboard for senior leadership.

• Senior Data Analyst, Dashboard Development (Temporary Contract)

  Remote

  The Wikimedia Foundation is looking for a Senior Data Analyst to join our team, reporting to the Lead Strategist of the Global Data & Insights team. The Global Data & Insights team supports Wikimedia Foundation learning through aggregating data about our community environments from across global as well as internal data sources to look geographically and linguistically at relative presence and growth in various movement capacities to understand our progress at diversity and inclusion. We are working to enable easier access to such insights through the use of customizable dashboards built for teams to use in their annual planning and everyday resource decision-making.

Product

• Engineering Manager

  Remote

  We are seeking emotionally intelligent engineering managers who are able to craft a fulfilling work environment for each engineer.  We expect our managers to be proactive and collaborative partners with product, design, and other functions to lead effective teams where everyone is empowered to do their best work. We believe that a human-centered leadership approach is key to a high performing team, and that these two go hand-in hand.

• Product Manager, Data

  Remote

  Wikimedia is looking for an experienced and collaborative Product Manager to join our Product team while working closely with our analytics engineering team, data engineering team, and numerous other teams at Wikimedia to strengthen our data and analytics products. You will work with experienced teams of data engineers, data scientists, analysts, and product managers to set and execute a strategy and roadmap for improving our end-to-end data infrastructure to make collecting data, processing it and using it to make decisions as efficient as possible. In doing so, you will learn from and partner with stakeholders across data science, research, design and product as well as academics and Wikimedia volunteers.

• Senior Product Manager, Structured Data

  Remote

  Wikipedia is looking for an experienced and collaborative Product Manager 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. Product Managers at Wikipedia work with researchers, engineers and designers to build features, products and services used by hundreds of millions of people around the world. This is an opportunity to ‘do good’ while having a high level of impact at a large-scale media property.

• Senior Software Engineer, Parsing

  Remote

  The Wikimedia Foundation is looking for product software engineers to join our team, reporting to product engineering management. As a product software engineer, you will be responsible for software engineering for our product user experiences. On the Parsing team, we work to support and evolve all things wikitext, the markup language behind Wikipedia. We aim to make wikitext easier to write, faster to parse, and less error-prone for humans. We also strive to support editing and content analysis tools with structured representations.

• VP, Product Engineering

  Remote

  The VP of Product Engineering will manage the 50+ software engineers and managers in the Product department to create experiences that support the editors and readers of a global free-knowledge movement in a way that’s consistent with our values of privacy, community, inclusivity, multilingualism and sustainability. You will partner with the platform engineering and service engineering leadership in the Technology department to implement a multi-year plan to modernize our experiences and reach new people to ensure that the projects are sustainable forever.

Talent and Culture

• Human Resources Business Partner

  Remote

  The WMF vision is to “imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge.” The Human Resources Business Partner (“HRBP”) will collaborate with Lead HRBPs and across teams to develop, implement and align people processes and performance to drive continuous growth and knowledge sharing across the Foundation.The HRBP is an accomplished connector who collaborates, problem solves, and gets results, celebrating wins while learning from mistakes. The position requires a balance of strategic vision and tactical implementation, experience in the intersection of change management and international human resource development, serving as a consultant to employees on human resource-related issues.

• VP, Talent & Culture

  Remote

  The Wikimedia Foundation is seeking a Vice President to join the Talent & Culture (T&C) department. We believe that our people are our most important asset, and the policy and practice work of our Talent & Culture department is critical to identifying, supporting, developing, and retaining excellent colleagues who advance the Foundation’s mission. This role will work side-by-side with the Chief of Talent & Culture to develop and implement a talent philosophy that supports our mission and organizational culture while simultaneously: allowing talented colleagues to grow and thrive, and achieving measurable business and social impact goals.

Technology

• Database Architect

  Remote

  Wikimedia is looking for a Principal Database Architect to join our SRE team to design, build, optimize and support the platform serving the world’s favorite encyclopedia to millions of people around the globe. Wikipedia and its sister projects are a globally distributed architecture powered strictly by Free and Open Source software. The stack has MediaWiki at its core, surrounded by an ecosystem of microservices in PHP, NodeJS, Python, Go and Java.

• Site Reliability Engineer, Wikimedia Cloud Services

  Remote

  The Wikimedia Foundation is looking for a Site Reliability Engineer to join our team, reporting to the manager of Cloud Services. As the Site Reliability Engineer, you will be responsible for maintaining the platforms and services for the Wikimedia Technology Community. In this role, you will maintain, upgrade and add new services to our existing cloud, data, and kubernetes infrastructure.

• Engineering Manager, Site Reliability Engineering (Traffic)

  Remote

  The Wikimedia Foundation is looking for an Engineering Manager to join our SRE team, reporting to the Director of Site Reliability Engineering. In this role, you will be managing the Traffic team, a remote-first, globally distributed team responsible for designing and operating a private and privacy-protecting global CDN for Wikipedia and related sister projects.

• Senior Site Reliability Engineer (Search Platform)

  Remote

  The Wikimedia Foundation is looking for a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to join our team, reporting to the Search Platform Engineering Manager. As the Senior Site Reliability Engineer, you will be responsible for supporting, maintaining and extending Wikidata Query Service (WDQS), the essential infrastructure that supports querying Wikidata and our Search infrastructure, powering the searchbox on Wikipedias and other higher level features.

• Manager, Developer Advocacy (Engineering)

  Remote

  Come work within the Technology department as part of the Technical Engagement group at the Wikimedia Foundation! We are looking for an experienced manager who has led engineering and multi-functional teams in technology to support our Developer Advocacy team.

• Research Community Officer

  Remote

  The sustainability and resilience of more than 800 Wikimedia projects including Wikipedia in 160 actively edited languages partially relies on a distributed network of researchers and research organizations who study the Wikimedia projects and innovate. We’re hiring a Research Community Officer to nurture and expand the network of Wikimedia researchers globally in coordination with teams within the Wikimedia Foundation, the Wikimedia volunteer communities, and the Wikimedia affiliates.

• Site Reliability Engineer

  Remote

  We are searching for a Site Reliability Engineer with source code control and CI/CD implementation experience to support our new Gitlab project. We are a distributed and diverse team of engineers with a drive to explore, experiment and embrace new technologies. During the past few years we have been transitioning our platform from a monolith to a hybrid, microservices architecture, and started migrating our microservices onto Kubernetes. We’ve adopted Elastic Stack and Prometheus as our de facto logging and monitoring platforms and are improving our automation (we ❤️ automation).

• Staff Site Reliability Engineer, Infrastructure Foundations

  Remote

  The Wikimedia Foundation is looking for a Site Reliability Engineer to join our team, reporting to the Engineering Manager of the Infrastructure Foundations team. As the Site Reliability Engineer, you will be responsible for ensuring our global top-15 web site, our public facing services, and underlying infrastructure are healthy and developing further in support of Wikimedia’s mission.

• Staff Site Reliability Engineer (Network)

  Remote

  The Wikimedia Foundation is looking for a Site Reliability Engineer to join our team, reporting to the Engineering Manager of the Infrastructure Foundations team. As the Site Reliability Engineer, you will be responsible for ensuring our global top-15 web site, our public facing services, and underlying infrastructure are healthy and developing further in support of Wikimedia’s mission.

• Systems Architect, Data

  Remote

  The Wikimedia Foundation is looking for a Systems Architect to join our Architecture Team, reporting to the Director of Architecture.  As a Systems Architect, you will collectively shape and design Wikimedia’s future technical systems that share the world’s knowledge. In this role, you will collaborate with engineers, product managers and other system owners within the Wikimedia Foundation and its partners to model and design an iterative approach to an evolutionary architecture for Wikimedia.

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