Make the internet a better place for free knowledge.

Advancement

Communications

• Program Manager, Marketing & Communications

  San Francisco, CA or Remote

  The Wikimedia Foundation is looking for an experienced Program Manager to join our Communications department. You will work with department leadership creating budgets and project roadmaps, and ensuring strong coordination and alignment between our branding, marketing, and communications functions. This collaborative role is for a strategic leader dedicated to operational excellence—eager to develop systems and processes that increase our impact.

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

• Legal Fellow (Summer '20)

  San Francisco, CA

  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.

• Tech, Law and Policy Fellowship

  San Francisco, CA or Washington, DC

  The Technology Law and Policy Fellow position is designed for a lawyer or other individual who typically has up to two years of legal or public policy experience and is passionate about free knowledge and the open internet. This position provides an immersive in-house experience with specific education and mentorship.

• Senior Legal Counsel

  Remote

  We are looking for an experienced lawyer to join our in-house legal department as Senior Legal Counsel to provide critical advice and counsel on how we manage the strategic relationships that empower us to pursue our vision. This includes a variety of projects, ranging from the development, negotiation, and structuring of our corporate and organizational partnerships, to the support of our relationships with our global workforce, and more. Ideal candidates will have experience providing holistic and creative advice and counsel in a variety of contexts.

Operations

• Continuous Improvement Project Manager

  Washington, DC

  The Wikimedia Foundation is looking for an experienced, dynamic, collaborative, forward-thinking Continuous Improvement Project Manager to join our team, reporting to the Director of Operations. As the Continuous Improvement Project Manager, you will solve problems and affect short-term and long-term organization goals through wing-to-wing delivery of process improvement projects and initiatives and performance reporting at an advanced level. The ideal candidate will be a truly passionate, change agent who can effectively motivate and influence operational improvements without direct authority, and partner with leaders to drive change and positively affect results.

Product

• Software Engineer

  Remote

  Wikimedia projects are built to be collaborative, multilingual and usable by people from around the world. The Language team works on projects that enable users to collaborate, consume, and contribute valuable content in more than 300 languages. We are currently working on several projects that are being gradually rolled out for users. Our team is fully remote and team members work from various places around the world.

• Vice President of Product

  San Francisco, CA or Remote

  The Wikimedia Foundation is seeking an experienced executive to serve as the Vice President of 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.

• Design Research Manager

  San Francisco, CA or Remote

  The Wikimedia Foundation’s Product Design Strategy Group is seeking a Design Research Manager to manage our small team of researchers and to organize, orchestrate and lead larger research initiatives. All the research projects the Design Strategy team takes on directly support various product development initiatives underway at any given time. A key aspect of this role will be to gather the pressing questions each product team is weighing, evaluate them in terms of urgency and potential impact, and then define lean methodologies for providing answers. 

• Senior Design Manager

  San Francisco, CA or Remote

  Wikimedia seeks a senior design professional to help deliver the future of free access to knowledge online. The Senior Design Manager will support the geographically distributed team of talented designers who are responsible for creating the engaging and delightful user experiences for all Wikimedia products.

• Software Engineer, iOS

  San Francisco, CA or Remote

  The Wikimedia Foundation is looking for a Software Engineer to join the iOS team, reporting to the Apps Engineering Manager.  As a Software Engineer, you will be responsible for thoughtfully crafting user experiences that empower and delight our users. You will work closely with the rest of the team to collaboratively iterate on new ideas. In this role, you will create new features, fix bugs, and define the future of Wikipedia on mobile devices.

• Senior UX Designer

  Remote

  The Product department at the Foundation is looking for a Senior UX Designer to join our Product Design team. This role will directly support the Foundation’s Structured Data on Commons work which is made possible by a grant from the Sloan Foundation. This team focuses on making the millions of files on Wikimedia Commons easier to view, search (also multilingually), edit, organize and re-use, and as such is a key strategic initiative for the Product team.

Talent and Culture

• Recruiter (Temp)

  San Francisco, CA or Remote

  We are seeking a contract Recruiter to assist our global recruiting team supporting various functions across the organization. This is a high touch position requiring a passion for developing strong internal and external relationships, providing a flawless candidate experience, utilizing creative sourcing strategies and critical thinking skills and a thoughtful approach when assessing talent. We value, and have made progress in, building a diverse team at Wikimedia and would like to intentionally grow our team to continue fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace across the foundation.  You are passionate about our mission and energized by the opportunity to share it with others across the world.

• Affiliate Committee Support Associate (Contractor)

  Remote

  The Affiliations Committee (AffCom) recommends recognition of new Wikimedia affiliate groups, derecognition of existing affiliates, and facilitates the work of recognized groups reporting and accountability. When inter-group conflicts arise, AffCom mediates and resolves these conflicts. The Affiliate Committee Support contractor will work closely with the Community Development team and the AffCom to provide facilitation and project management support, bolster committee training and development, and help to realize committee opportunities to guide our affiliate ecosystem’s growth along shared movement goals. 

• Senior Human Resources Business Partner

  San Francisco, CA or 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 Sr Human Resources Business Partner (“HRBP”) will collaborate across teams to develop, implement and align business performance to drive continuous growth and knowledge sharing across the Foundation in support of the both the medium term plan and strategic direction, pushing boundaries of excellence.

• Global Instructional Designer & Facilitator

  Remote

  The Instructional Designer and Facilitator will lead the development and implementation of community-focused, capacity-building learnings, trainings and resources for this global movement.

Technology

• Software Engineer - Data Platform

  Remote

  Wikipedia is where the world turns to understand almost any topic — The Wikimedia Foundation is the nonprofit that operates Wikipedia with a small staff.  We are looking for a great data architect who wants to modernize the infrastructure underlying Wikipedia with distributed storage, services and REST interfaces.  If this excites you, we welcome you to join us.

• 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.

• Application Security Engineer (Contract)

  San Francisco, CA or 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, Machine Learning

  Remote

  We are looking for an experienced Engineering 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.

• Site Reliability Engineer

  Remote

  We are looking for a Site Reliability Engineer! Would you like to join the highly dynamic team responsible for the reliability and performance of a global top-10 website — Wikipedia? You would join the Search Team, where we build the infrastructure for search and discovery of Wikipedia content. We are working on Open Source, JVM / Linux based stacks (Elasticsearch, Wikidata Query Service).

• 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.

• Database Administrator

  San Francisco, CA or Remote

  Wikimedia's goal is to provide every single person with the sum of all human knowledge and MariaDB/MySQL is how we store most of it. You will be joining a small mission driven team of talented highly experienced engineers.  

• Software Engineer (Release Engineering)

  San Francisco, CA or Remote

  As a software engineer on the Release Engineering team you'll be at the intersection of developer productivity and site reliability for Wikipedia and our other wikis. Our team is geographically distributed in 3 countries and 5 different time zones. The Release Engineering team is a part of the larger Engineering Productivity group at the Wikimedia Foundation, with expertise on everything from testing practices to web performance.

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