Leading Role in Language and Product Localization: Senior Product Manager Position Available
The Wikimedia Foundation, the non-profit organisation behind Wikipedia and other free knowledge projects, is on the hunt for an experienced product manager to drive strategy for user experience on its multilingual Wikimedia sites.
As the product manager, you will be responsible for developing and executing a strategy that focuses on creating innovative, multilingual, and mobile-friendly products. Your goal will be to improve language diversity, accessibility, and usability across Wikimedia projects.
The role requires a deep understanding of the goals and challenges of users from diverse backgrounds, geographies, and experiences. You will work with a cross-functional team, collaborating with community members, researchers, engineers, designers, program managers, and external & internal partners to drive strategy, build the roadmap, and deliver products.
The team's current strategy and goals focus on several key areas:
- Developing language-support tools that enable easier content editing in many languages. This includes improvements to user interfaces such as template dialogs in VisualEditor and syntax highlighting with accessibility considerations like colourblind-friendly schemes.
- Fostering language diversity by creating infrastructure and products designed to support multiple languages efficiently and effectively, with an emphasis on localization and mobile usability.
- Engaging with communities and leveraging user feedback to continuously improve multilingual usability and the overall editing experience.
This approach aligns with Wikimedia's broader mission to make knowledge freely accessible in every language and on all devices, including mobile platforms.
The Wikimedia Foundation is an equal opportunity employer, continuously striving for a diverse and inclusive workplace. They provide accommodations for qualified applicants with disabilities and do not ask for nor take into consideration the salary history of applicants.
The position is for the Language and Product Localization team at the Wikimedia Foundation, with the aim of making meaningful product innovations that are visually rich, mobile-friendly, and multilingual. The team maintains several products and services used for internationalization support and localization, and translation tools.
The Wikimedia Foundation operates in a remote-first environment with staff members in 40+ countries. Suitable candidates are preferred to be based in locations within UTC+0000 and UTC+0530. They hire in several countries, including Australia, Canada, India, and the United States.
Salaries at the Wikimedia Foundation are competitive, equitable, and consistent with their values and culture. The compensation for a successful applicant will be based on their skills, experience, and location.
If you are an experienced product manager with a passion for making a meaningful contribution to knowledge equity, free culture, and open access, and have a strong awareness of multilingual digital content practices, this could be the perfect opportunity for you. Preferred experience includes working with users and digital communities in the Middle East, Africa, South and South East Asia, or Latin America.
To apply, you should have 3 to 5 years of demonstrable experience as a product manager or equivalent role, expertise in user-facing products, mobile application development, and mobile user experience, creating demos and interactive prototypes, proficiency with data, reporting, analytics, or A/B testing, and experience working with cross-functional teams and in an agile or iterative software development environment.
The Wikimedia Foundation's vision is a world in which every human can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. If you share this vision and are ready to make a difference, apply today!
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- In your role as a product manager, you'll be managing the development and execution of a strategy that incorporates technology, focusing on creating innovative, mobile-friendly, and multilingual products to support education and self-development for diverse users, aligning with Wikimedia's mission of making knowledge accessible in every language.
- As you work on fostering language diversity and promoting user-friendly interfaces within the Language and Product Localization team, you'll be leveraging your expertise in finance, namely budget planning and resource allocation, to ensure the successful implementation of these initiatives.
