Lead Product Manager, Content Experiences Lazio

Lead Product Manager, Content Experiences
Roma
Lazio, Lazio

Lead Product Manager, Content Experiences

**Summary

Wikimedia is looking for an experienced product manager in our Product department for a team that creates products and features for audiences in emerging digital communities around the world.

The Product department builds the wiki experiences 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.

This is an opportunity to have a tremendous impact with one of the most beloved parts of the internet.

Wikipedia is one of the most popular media properties in the world, visited by over 1 billion people a month across over 300 different languages.

All this knowledge is created and managed by more than 200, 000 volunteer editors.

This position is for the Inuka team at the Wikimedia Foundation.

In Kiswahili Inuka means "to rise".

and the mission of our team is to help everyone obtain and contribute reliable content on Wikimedia sites.

Our aim is to make meaningful product innovations to build workflows that are visually rich, mobile friendly and multilingual.

Connecting the large numbers of digitally underserved people who are globally dispersed provides unique opportunities to innovate.

The challenge is to address the inherent inequity of knowledge on the Internet and use existing knowledge sharing practices to create solutions.

As the product manager with the Inuka team, you will work with community members, researchers, engineers, designers, program managers, and external & internal partners to drive the strategy, build the roadmap, and deliver products that excite and inspire people to consume, contribute and share free knowledge through innovative new forms.

You will also be an important part of defining a broader strategy for our Product department.

**You are responsible for**:

- Developing and driving strategy for user experience on Wikipedia in alignment with trends evolving around emerging digital communities.

- Becoming an expert in the goals and challenges of users joining the Wikipedia community from different backgrounds, geographies, and experiences.

- Building the product roadmap; defining products, writing requirements, prototyping, developing and launching products and features for emerging digital communities.

- Managing products through the full product lifecycle, using both qualitative and quantitative methods to measure the impact of your work.

- Working with a cross-functional team to build products.

- Collaborating with volunteer community members around the world.

- Coordinating and collaborating across other departments, such as Marketing, Movement Communication, or Partnerships, that participate in expanding user engagement.

- Releasing and iterating intentionally to provide incremental value and validate hypotheses.

**Skills and Experience**:

- 3 to 5 years of demonstrable experience as a product manager or equivalent role defining, designing, building and managing user-facing web products

- Demonstrated success in growing a new user base or in launching new products

- Experience working with users in emerging digital communities, such as in the Middle East, Africa, South and SouthEast Asia, or Latin America

- Experience writing requirements with the ability to translate complex technical requirements

- Proficiency with data, reporting, analytics, or A/B testing

- Experience working with cross-functional teams

- Experience working in an agile or iterative software development environment

- Bachelor's degree or equivalent in relevant work experience

**Qualities that are important to us**:

- Commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion

- Strong listening skills

- Ability to clearly communicate product plans and results to stakeholders and collaborators

- Ability to develop process and structure for an evolving team

- A desire to make meaningful contributions to knowledge equity, free culture, and open access

**Additionally, we'd love it if you have**:

- Experience with a two-sided platform or marketplace product

- Enthusiasm for users who love to create and contribute

- Experience working with communities, volunteers, or open source projects

- Experience working in a fully remote, geographically distributed, and asynchronous teams

- Experience with digital marketing tactics

- Understanding related to assessment of regulatory and policy impacts on product

- Experience with products backed by machine-learning

- Experience editing Wikipedia or contributing to other wiki projects

- Fluency in a language other than English

**About the Wikimedia Foundation**:

The Wikimedia Foundation is the nonprofit organization that operates Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia free knowledge projects.

Our vision is a world in which every single human can freely share in the sum of all knowledge.

We believe that everyone has the potential to contribute something to our shared knowledge, and that everyone should be able to access that knowledge freely.

We host Wik