Job openings
We are looking for creative, motivated people who want to work in a highly-collaborative environment. If you want to be part of a growing and successful non-profit organization that’s making a difference everywhere around the world, this may be the place for you.
We are hiring in the following areas:
- Head of Office Administration - open until May 1, 2010
- Chief Human Resources Officer – open until filled
- Chief Global Program Officer – open until filled
- Chief Development Officer – open until filled
- Communications Intern – open
The positions listed here are based in our San Francisco headquarters, but we may in some cases be open to the possibility of people working remotely, unless otherwise noted in the job posting itself. If you are not currently living in the San Francisco Bay Area, and are not willing to relocate there, please make that clear in your cover letter.
If you are an editor in the Wikimedia projects, or help Wikimedia in some other way, please explicitly say that in your cover letter, and please give your username. Wikimedia experience is a definite plus when you're applying for a job with us.
If you are interested in working for our technical team, please review our past Software Developer and System Administrator openings, and send a cover letter and resume to jobs
wikimedia.org. You may apply for software developer and systems administrator jobs at any time: you do not need to wait for a specific posting here.
Except as noted above, please only apply for positions labeled as "open": if you apply for positions that are not yet open, your application will probably never reach the right person.
About the Wikimedia Foundation
The Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. is a US-registered 501(c)(3) tax-deductible non-profit charity dedicated to encouraging the growth, development and distribution of free, multilingual content, and to providing the full content of wiki-based projects to the public free of charge. The Wikimedia Foundation operates some of the largest collaboratively-edited reference projects in the world, including Wikipedia (one of the world's 10 most visited websites), Wiktionary, Wikibooks, Wikiquote, Wikisource, Wikinews, Wikiversity, Wikispecies, and the Wikimedia Commons media repository. The organization has received numerous honors for its work—including the Webby Award, the Prix Ars Electronica Golden Nica, the Japan Advertisers Association's Web Creation Award and the World Technology Award in Communications Technology.
The Wikimedia Foundation was created in 2003 to manage the operation of Wikipedia and its sister projects and is based in San Francisco, California. It currently employs Template:STAFF-COUNT staff members. Wikimedia is supported by local chapter organizations in Template:CHAPTER-COUNT countries.
More information sources
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Current staff
For a list of Wikimedia Foundation employees, see Staff.
Employment policies
Read our non discrimination policy.