Make the internet a better place for free knowledge.

Office of the Chief Executive Officer and Executive Director

• Deputy Chief of Staff (Board of Trustees)

  Remote

  Reporting to the Chief of Staff/Board Liaison, the Deputy Chief of Staff (Board of Trustees) is responsible for the effective operation and strategic execution of the Board of Trustees through its regular meetings, committee work, retreats, and special meetings. The Board of Trustees plays both a strategic and accountability role in the organization, and is essential to the organization’s ability to meet its long-term goals.

Advancement

• Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Strategist, Grantmaking (Contractor)

  Remote

  The Wikimedia Foundation is looking for a collaborative, analytical, and creative Strategist to design the learning and evaluation plan to monitor the outcomes and the impact of our new grantmaking strategies. We are seeking an experienced consultant who has a track record of designing an overall framework for monitoring our progress and measuring our impact of the newly designed grants strategy that aligns with the 2030 Movement Strategic Direction. Our overall vision is to foster a culture of evaluation, reflection, and learning so that the Foundation and Wikimedia Movement are equipped to create meaningful social change.

• Strategic Partnership Specialist

  Remote

  The Wikimedia Foundation is looking for a passionate and collaborative Partnerships Specialist to join our team. The core purpose of this job is to support the Partnerships team in identifying, designing, and managing external partnerships, particularly those focused on content access and equity in emerging markets. The ideal candidate will have experience with project management, stakeholder engagement, and collaborative decision making.

Communications

• Manager, Global Brand

  Remote

  The Wikimedia Foundation seeks a strategic, collaborative, and creative brand leader to help us advance one of the world’s most beloved brands: Wikipedia.  This position is part of our larger Communications Team and reports to our Director of Brand. In this role, you will work with a brand team, Wikimedia volunteers, external partners, technologists, media outlets, and Foundation staff to maintain and grow the Wikimedia brand. 

Finance and Administration

• Senior Enterprise Resource Planning Analyst

  Remote

  The Wikimedia Foundation is looking for a Senior Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Analyst to join our team, reporting to the Senior Manager, Process Improvement Programs. As the Senior ERP Analyst, you will build and iterate systems that contribute to the effectiveness of our business workflows. You will develop and maintain integrated ERP systems, and drive enhancements, and reconfigurations to deliver business process improvements.

Legal

• Lead Counsel

  Remote

  As Wikimedia pursues a new global strategic direction, our Legal department is tasked with solving many legal questions, including some that no one has fully considered before. We are looking for an experienced lawyer to join our in-house legal department as Lead Counsel to provide critical advice and counsel on how we manage the strategic relationships that empower us to pursue our vision.

• Learning and Development Strategist

  Remote

  The Wikimedia Foundation is looking for a strategic and results-oriented Learning and Development Strategist to support the development and implementation of our global learning and leadership portfolio and capacity-building training and resources for our global volunteers. We are seeking someone who understands the capacity development needs of groups and individual volunteers who engage in the free knowledge movement and are at different stages of movement growth.

• Legal Fellow (Summer '21)

  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.

• Disinformation Evaluator, Croatian Language (Contract)

  Remote

  The Wikimedia movement, dedicated to freely sharing the knowledge of humankind, is embarking on a renewal of its collaborative governance approach. The Croatian Disinformation Contractor will investigate a long-standing movement concern, whether some Croatian language content and governance structures on the platform might be uniquely vulnerable to disinformation efforts. Disinformation is the deliberate spread of false or misleading information with the intent to deceive. The role is located in and will closely partner with other parts of the Legal department, especially the Trust & Safety Disinformation team.

• Senior Counsel

  Remote

  The Wikimedia Foundation is looking for a skilled, privacy-focused lawyer to join our in-house legal department as Senior Counsel to provide critical advice and counsel on how we collect and manage data, build effective new products, and respond to the changing data protection landscape worldwide. This will include managing Wikimedia’s responses to user questions and requests, advising engineers and designers on effective and privacy-protective methods to collect data, supporting our privacy-related public policy work, and more. Ideal candidates will have the skills and knowledge to provide holistic and creative advice and counsel in a variety of contexts.    

Operations

Product

• Director of Product, Anti-Disinformation

  Remote

  The Wikimedia Foundation is looking for a Director of Product Management to design and implement our anti-disinformation program.  This unique position will have a global impact on preventing Disinformation through Wikipedia and our other Wikimedia projects.  You will gain a deep understanding of the ways in which our communities have fought disinformation for the last two decades and how this content is used globally.

• Director of Product Management

  Remote

  The Wikimedia Foundation is looking for an experienced and collaborative Director of Product Management to structure our content across Wikimedia products, unlocking a new class of functionality. This position also includes leading the Search team in developing Search functionality across Wikimedia Foundation products.

• Engineering Manager, Trust & Safety

  Remote

  The Trust & Safety Engineering Team at Wikimedia Foundation is looking for an Engineering Manager to lead the team in building features that help protect our users’ privacy and safety on all of our Wikimedia projects, including Wikipedia. This role is full-time, 100% remote, and global.

• Lead Software Engineer

  Remote

  The Trust & Safety Engineering Team at Wikimedia Foundation is looking for a Lead Software Engineer to work with us to build features that help protect our users’ privacy and safety on all of our Wikimedia projects, including Wikipedia. This role is full-time, 100% remote, and global.

• Senior Product Manager, Campaigns

  Remote

  Wikipedia is looking for an experienced and collaborative Senior 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. For this role, you will join a new Campaigns product team, which will build and improve features to support "edit-athons", which introduce new contributors to Wikipedia and other Wikimedia sites, and "content drives", which encourage the addition of new articles, pictures and data on a specific theme.

• Senior Software Engineer

  Remote

  The Wikimedia Foundation is looking for a senior product software engineer 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. In this role, you will work in a mostly-remote environment, where we value teamwork and a consensus-oriented approach. You get to write open source code for collaborative experiences supporting over a half a billion pages accessed per day, and you get to do it at a place that believes we're all more successful when everyone has a good work-life balance.

• 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

• 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. 

• L&D Specialist (Contract)

  Remote

  The Learning and Development Specialist will be instrumental in our organization’s future success. The Specialist will partner closely with L & D leadership to support the evolution of the Wikimedia Foundation’s learning & development programs, including the design, implementation, and rollout of the Wikimedia Foundation’s online learning programming.

• VP, Global Diversity, Equity & Inclusion

  Remote

  The VP, Global Diversity, Equity and Inclusion will have a vital role in evolving the culture at Wikimedia Foundation. 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. The Vice President is a critical thought partner with internal leadership and a key voice for DEI both within the Foundation, as well as externally, via speaking at public events, program facilitation, and participation in career fairs.

• Global Compensation & People Data Analyst

  Remote

  The Wikimedia Foundation is looking for a contract Compensation & People Data Analyst to join our Talent & Culture (T&C) department reporting to the Senior Manager, People Operations. This is a 6 months full time role with the possibility to extend for another six months and/or potential for this role to convert into a full-time staff role based on successful performance during the contract period.  

Technology

• Director, Data Engineering

  Remote

  The Wikimedia Foundation is seeking an experienced engineering leader to serve as Director of Data Engineering for our Technology 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.

• Senior Site Reliability Engineer (Machine Learning Platform)

  Remote

  The Wikimedia Foundation is hiring a Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to help build and support the foundation’s machine learning infrastructure. We are a fully remote team, with members spanning Pacific Time to East Africa Time and includes machine learning engineering and SRE.

• Engineering Manager, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)

  Remote

  The Wikimedia Foundation is looking for an Engineering Manager to join our SRE team, reporting to the Director of Site Reliability Engineering.  As Engineering Manager, you will be responsible for supporting the engineers developing our infrastructure and supporting the services that depend on it, used by hundreds of millions of people around the world.

• Senior Site Reliability Engineer (Distributed Storage)

  Remote

  We are looking for a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to support and develop the platform serving the world’s favorite encyclopedia to millions of people around the globe. We are a globally distributed and diverse team of engineers with a drive to explore, experiment and embrace new technologies. If you find what we do interesting, if you are up to the challenge of improving the reliability and delivery of one of the Internet’s top 10 websites, and you enjoy the idea of working in a remote-first role, we may just be the right place for you.

• Senior Site Reliability Engineer

  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.

• Privacy Engineer

  Remote

  The Wikimedia Foundation is looking for a Privacy Engineer to join our team, reporting to the Director of Security. We are looking for a privacy practitioner to partner with research, engineering, legal, and security teams at the Wikimedia Foundation to help build new features that allow these teams and others to create new and exciting ways to share knowledge while respecting our users' privacy. 

• 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.

• Site Reliability Engineer

  Remote

  We are looking for a Site Reliability Engineer to join our SRE Traffic team in supporting and developing the platform that serves the world’s favorite encyclopaedia to millions of people around the globe. Wikipedia and its sister projects are powered by Free and Open Source software and infrastructure.  The SRE Traffic team’s primary responsibility is the development and operation of a private and privacy-protecting global CDN for Wikipedia and related sister projects.

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