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Advancement
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Lead Major Gifts Manager
Remote
This role is a critical part of the Wikimedia Foundation’s Major Gifts and Foundations team, which raises funds to support the annual operating costs of Wikipedia and its sister projects. The Lead Major Gifts Manager will lead engagement with donors making gifts at the 5- and 6- figure levels and collaborate closely with fundraising colleagues across teams to ensure a coordinated approach to our outreach and stewardship. We’re looking for a team player who can be an asset to the team in reaching their shared goals and can help donors feel appreciated.
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Email Campaign Manager
Remote
The Wikimedia Foundation is looking for an Email Campaign Manager (ECM). You will be a key participant in the online fundraising team’s year-round, multilingual fundraising campaigns. The magic of the online fundraising team’s process is its dedication to controlled (“a/b”) testing, which leverages Wikipedia’s audience of millions of readers to iterate and improve all elements of our online donor pipeline. We use that testing model on the email team to contact more than 15 million people each year while ensuring we respect our donors' time and their inboxes.
Communications
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Finance and Administration
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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
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Legal Fellow (Fall '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.
Operations
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Director of Global Data & Insights
Remote
The Director of Global Data & Insights is a seasoned monitoring and evaluation leader who will develop and implement the strategy for delivering data and insights about the Wikimedia Movement to inform practices at the Wikimedia Foundation. This position will lead the Global Data & Insights (GDI) team, currently composed of five applied researchers and analysts, who are together responsible for providing data and insights to support executive decision-making regarding Foundation program funding, growth, and future planning.
Product
Talent and Culture
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HR Operations Associate (Temporary)
Remote
At the Wikimedia Foundation, we on the Talent & Culture team are committed to supporting our mission-driven and brilliant staff, and we deeply care about improving the lives of our employees. We’re looking for a compassionate and thoughtful human resources professional with an ability to coordinate multiple projects, with an attention to detail and confidentiality, to support HR operations processes. This is a temporary position and can be remote. Applicants outside of the US are encouraged to apply.
Technology
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VP, Data Science & Engineering
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.
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Site Reliability Engineer
Remote
The Wikimedia Foundation is hiring a Site Reliability Engineer to support and maintain the data and statistics infrastructure that powers a big part of decision making in the Foundation and in the Wiki community. This includes everything from eliminating boring things from your daily workflow by automating them, to upgrading a multi-petabyte Hadoop cluster to the next upstream version without impacting uptime and users.
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System Architect
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.
Values
We strive for excellence.
We welcome and cherish our differences.
We are in this together.
We engage in civil discourse.
We are inspired.
US Benefits
Medical benefits
Fully paid medical, dental, and vision insurance premiums for employees and their eligible families.
Family-friendly policies
Includes 100% paid new parent leave for seven weeks, plus an additional five weeks for pregnancy.
Wellness program
$1800 annually for fitness memberships, babysitting, continuing education, student loans, and more.
Professional development
We offer course reimbursements, in-house sharing sessions, language program reimbursements, and other opportunities.
Retirement
401(k) retirement plan with matched contributions up to 4% of annual salary.
Time off
Includes vacation days, sick leave, and volunteer time. To make sure there is shared time off every month, we offer 19 holidays per year.
Pre-tax savings plans
For health care, child care, elder care, public transport, and parking expenses. Includes an employer funded HSA option.
Disability & life insurance
Long and short term disability, life insurance (2x salary) and an employee assistance program.
On-site in San Francisco
Including snacks to fuel your thinking, monthly massages, gym, yoga classes, weekly farmers market, gender neutral bathroom, monthly staff lunch, and more.
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