Make the internet a better place for free knowledge.

Advancement

Communications

• Creative Director, Emerging Markets

  Remote

  We're looking for a Creative Director to join a team that is passionate about the power of brand, design and technology to change the world. This role will be responsible for collaborating on meaningful, idea-led work for a global movement and setting the creative vision for our programs. You will play a vital role in high visibility global projects critical to the future of Wikipedia.

• Communications/Press Manager

  Remote

  The Wikimedia Foundation seeks a remote Communications Manager with a deep understanding of media relations and digital content creation, as well as strong networking and editorial skills to elevate and amplify the voices and stories of the knowledge equity movement. 

Community Engagement

• Lead Program Manager, Anti-Harassment

  San Francisco, CA or Remote

  The Wikimedia Foundation is seeking a Lead Program Manager, Anti Harassment to join the Community Engagement team to 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. 

• Senior Program Manager, GLAM and Culture

  Remote

  The Wikimedia Foundation is seeking a Senior Program Manager, GLAM and Culture, to 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, which states 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. 

• International Events Specialist

  Remote

  The Wikimedia Foundation is seeking a Wikimania Program Manager, to 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. 

   

• 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.

Executive

• Executive Assistant to the Executive Director/CEO

  San Francisco, CA or Remote

  The Executive Assistant to the ED/CEO is a vital role in the Wikimedia Foundation. Reporting to the Chief of Staff, you will take a strategic approach and initiative to keep the office running smoothly. You have an impeccable attention to detail, a love for making a plan come together, derive joy from anticipating needs and opportunities, and heading off challenges. You will manage requests with speed and discretion, and adapt to an ever-changing environment to meet the needs of the Office.

Finance and Administration

• Lead Financial Analyst

  San Francisco, CA

  The Wikimedia Foundation is looking for a Lead FP&A Analyst & Business Partner to join our team, reporting to the FP&A Manager.  In this highly visible role, you will work in close partnership with the CFO to serve as the strategic finance business partner to C-suite members and leaders across the organization.

Legal

• 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.

Product

• 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 (Contractor), Graphs

  Remote

  The Wikimedia Foundation is looking for a Contract Software Engineer to join our team, reporting to the manager of the Structured Data team.  As the Software Engineer for Graphs, you will be responsible for taking the current Graphs extension and re-writing it to use frontend technology to render graphs and charts on Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects. In this role, you will coordinate with the current maintainers of the Graph extension and the Graphoid service to convert existing functionality into this new frontend-only system.

• Senior UX Designer, New Readers

  Remote

  The Product team is looking for a Senior UX Designer to join our Design team. This role will directly support the Foundation’s New Readers initiative, which focuses on building new and innovative features for mobile devices, particularly for people in emerging markets.

• Software Engineer (Community Tech)

  San Francisco, CA or Remote

  The Community Tech Team at Wikimedia Foundation is looking for a Software Engineer to work with us to build features and tools requested by the Wikimedia community. This is an ideal opportunity for a member of the community to leverage their skills and experience and help the Foundation support the community better. While we are able and willing to coach and train engineers new to MediaWiki or the free knowledge movement, this role requires existing knowledge and experience developing modern web applications.

• Senior Software Engineer (Product Infrastructure)

  San Francisco, CA or Remote

  We’re looking for a full stack software engineer who can build amazing technology that serves over half a billion pages per day. Are you ready to write open source code that powers one of the most popular websites in the world?

• 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.

Talent and Culture

• Human Resources Business Partner (Temporary)

  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 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 both the medium term plan and strategic direction, pushing boundaries of excellence.

• 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.

• Director of Global Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

  San Francisco, CA or Remote

  The Global Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (“DEI”) Director is a vital role for evolving the WMF culture. The position requires both big-picture, strategic thinking as well as operational skills to set targets and mobilize action in all aspects of diversity, equity, and inclusion.

Technology

• 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.

• Systems Performance Engineer

  San Francisco, CA or Remote

  The Wikimedia Foundation is looking for a System Performance Engineer to join its Performance Team. We are a globally distributed and diverse team of engineers, motivated to explore and innovate with ways to improve and monitor the performance and availability of Wikipedia and its sister projects.

• Site Reliability Engineer (Kubernetes)

  Remote

  We are looking for a Site Reliability Engineer to directly support our application platform serving the world’s favorite encyclopædia to millions of people around the globe. Wikipedia and its sister projects are powered strictly by Free and Open Source software with MediaWiki in its core surrounded by an ecosystem of microservices in PHP, NodeJS, Python, Go and Java.

• 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.

• Developer Advocate

  Remote

  The Wikimedia Foundation is passionate about making it easier for people to use Wikimedia APIs and to contribute to the numerous Free and Open Source software (FOSS) projects that the Wikimedia movement relies on to power their wikis. Our Developer Advocates provide technical support; run workshops; produce sample code, tutorials,  and other documentation; and help to create a fun, inclusive and productive environment for our international technical communities.

• 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.  

• Engineering Manager (Core Platform)

  San Francisco, CA or Remote

  Engineering Managers at Wikipedia support engineers who build features and products used by people around the world. The Core Platform Team is responsible for the maintenance and development of the MediaWiki and Wikimedia specific services that allow our software to scale to serve millions of users.

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