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# Group Product Manager, Data Platforms at Wikimedia Foundation

- **Company:** Wikimedia Foundation
- **Location:** Remote
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-11-06
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-08
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/wikimedia/jobs/8346045

## Job description

Summary

Wikipedia and its sister projects are among the most popular media properties in the world, visited by over 1 billion people a month across over 300 different languages. These sites generate a tremendous amount of data on how people learn and collaborate.  The Wikimedia Foundation is looking for a group product manager to guide the development and evolution of our [data platforms](https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Data_Platform), the collection of technologies we use to understand how Wikipedia works, improve its experiences, and spread free knowledge.

The group product manager is a leader in the strategic decision-making and tactical execution for the Data Engineering, Experimentation, Search, and Data Platform Site Reliability teams. This role shares leadership responsibility with the Director of Engineering for Data Platform Engineering, and works in collaboration with data analysts, researchers, and product teams building user-facing features for reading and editing Wikipedia on the web and mobile apps. This is a people management role, managing two individually-contributing product managers.

In this role, you and your group of product managers will guide the evolution of our data pipelines, data lake, experiment platform, and analytics tools.  This includes ingestion, orchestration, computation, and serving data using a variety of technologies such as Kafka, Flink, Hadoop, Spark, Airflow, Iceberg, Kubernetes, Superset, dbt, and OpenSearch. A strong candidate will have deep experience building a data platform to serve product analytics and production needs, and be technically conversant in the relevant technologies.

This position will report to the Senior Director of Product, Core Experiences.

Candidates must be available for critical meetings and synchronous work between 15:00 UTC and 18:00 UTC, and open to traveling internationally up to four times per year.

This role is accountable for:

- Ensuring the accuracy, usefulness, reliability, and accessibility of our data products
- Defining and setting priorities and roadmaps for Data Platform Engineering teams across four domains: data engineering, search, experimentation, and site reliability
- Product lifecycle management of the products, services, and tools of the Data Platform Engineering teams
- Co-developing product strategy, providing leadership, and making and facilitating sound decisions
- Managing and developing a team of product managers
- Partnering with user-facing product teams to use the data platform to guide product decisions and build derived-data products

Expected skills and experience include:

- Minimum of 5 years of product management experience with data or infrastructure products
- Experience hiring and managing product managers
- Success delivering data and analytical products and services depended on by multiple product teams
- Expertise in data analytics, A/B testing, search, and data architecture
- Strong understanding of modern techniques for handling high-scale data
- Knowledge of search technologies
- Experience navigating privacy issues around data collection, retention, and distribution
- Ability to work with multiple stakeholder teams to deliver results through lateral influence and collaboration

Qualities that are important to us:

- Commitment to the [mission](https://wikimediafoundation.org/about/mission/#:~:text=The%20mission%20of%20the%20Wikimedia,disseminate%20it%20effectively%20and%20globally.) and [values](https://wikimediafoundation.org/about/values/) of the Wikimedia Foundation
- Effective at asynchronous communication in a distributed workplace
- Able to navigate and make decisions in circumstances with limited, incomplete, and conflicting information
- Focus on iterative delivery and minimum viability to provide value to customer teams
- Effective at clear, written communication for strategy, plans, roadmaps, and decisions, for a wide range of audiences including individual contributor engineers, volunteer contributors, and department leadership

Additionally, we would love it if you have:

- Experience with open source, open data, or open knowledge communities
- Experience building products for multiple languages and geographies.
- Experience with the integration of machine learning or artificial intelligence into web products.
- Experience editing Wikipedia or with the Wikipedia, Wikidata, or Wikimedia Commons communities or other collaborative enterprises
- Open source software development experience
- Familiarity with MediaWiki

## 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 Wikipedia and the Wikimedia projects, build software experiences for reading, contributing, and sharing Wikimedia content, support the volunteer communities and partners who make Wikimedia possible, and advocate for policies that enable Wikimedia and free knowledge to thrive.

The Wikimedia Foundation is a charitable, not-for-profit organization that relies on donations. We receive donations from millions of individuals around the world, with an average donation of about $15. We also receive donations through institutional grants and gifts. The Wikimedia Foundation is a United States 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization with offices in San Francisco, California, USA.

As an equal opportunity employer, the Wikimedia Foundation values having a diverse workforce and continuously strives to maintain an inclusive and equitable workplace. We encourage people with a diverse range of backgrounds to apply. We do not discriminate against any person based upon their race, traits historically associated with race, religion, color, national origin, sex, pregnancy or related medical conditions, parental status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, genetic information, or any other legally protected characteristics.

The Wikimedia Foundation is a remote-first organization with staff members including contractors based 40+ countries*. Salaries at the Wikimedia Foundation are set in a way that is competitive, equitable, and consistent with our values and culture. The anticipated annual pay range of this position for applicants based within the United States is US$131,926 to US$206,302 with multiple individualized factors, including cost of living in the location, being the determinants of the offered pay. For applicants located outside of the US, the pay range will be adjusted to the country of hire. We neither ask for nor take into consideration the salary history of applicants. The compensation for a successful applicant will be based on their skills, experience and location.

*Please note that we are currently able to hire in the following: US States: Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, District of Columbia*, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Puerto Rico*, Rhode Island, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin and Wyoming (*US Territory or Federal District)

Countries: Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Germany, Ghana, India, Indonesia, Italy, Kenya*, Mexico, Morocco, Netherlands, Poland, Singapore*, South Africa, Spain, Switzerland and the United Kingdom. Our non-US employees are hired through a local third party Employer of Record (EOR) and must have current work authorization in their location. (*citizens/permanent residents only)

We periodically review this list to streamline to ensure alignment with our hiring requirements.

All applicants can reach out to their recruiter to understand more about the specific pay range for their location during the interview process.

If you are a qualified applicant requiring assistance or an accommodation to complete any step of the application process due to a disability, you may contact us at recruiting@wikimedia.org or +1 (415) 839-6885.

More information

[U.S. Benefits & Perks](https://wikimediafoundation.org/about/jobs/#section-12)

[Applicant Privacy Policy](https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Applicant_privacy_policy)

[Wikimedia Foundation](https://wikimediafoundation.org/)

[What does the Wikimedia Foundation do?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mvPYF_erNA&list=PLVx9pX-VnGVh9Akb-O-SAKZ-GDTVTHZqS&index=8)

[What makes Wikipedia different from social media platforms?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gATwhhGrPk&list=PLVx9pX-VnGVh9Akb-O-SAKZ-GDTVTHZqS&index=1)

[Our Projects](https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Our_projects)

[Our Tech Stack](https://techblog.wikimedia.org/)

[News from across the Wikimedia movement](https://wikimediafoundation.org/news/)

[Wikimedia Blog](https://diff.wikimedia.org/)

[Wikimedia 2030](https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2017)

## About Wikimedia Foundation

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: The Wikimedia Foundation is the nonprofit organization that operates Wikipedia and other free knowledge projects, supporting a global community of volunteer editors and providing reliable information to billions of readers.
- **Entity Type**: Private (501(c)(3) nonprofit, donation-funded, not bootstrapped)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, USA (remote-first organization)
- **Founded**: 2003
- **Founders**: Jimmy Wales (co-founder of Wikipedia; foundation founder)

## Core Business
- **Primary industries**: Internet services, content, education, technology for free knowledge
- **Target customers**: Readers (B2C), volunteer editors (community), enterprise reusers (B2B via Wikimedia Enterprise), and institutional donors
- **Mission or purpose statement**: "A world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge." [wikimediafoundation.org/who-we-are/]

## Products & Services
- **Wikipedia**: The flagship free encyclopedia – over 65 million articles in 300+ languages, visited nearly 15 billion times per month. Content is created and curated by volunteer editors. [wikimediafoundation.org]
- **Wikimedia Enterprise**: A commercial API service providing high-volume data feeds for large-scale reusers (e.g., AI labs, search engines, media organizations). Generates revenue to support the mission. [wikimediafoundation.org/jobs/]
- **Other Wikimedia Projects**: Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons, Wikisource, Wiktionary, etc. – all free, open-source knowledge repositories.
- **MediaWiki**: The open-source software platform that powers Wikipedia and its sister projects, also used by many other organizations.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not applicable (nonprofit). The Foundation’s net assets are publicly reported in its annual financial statements.
- **Key Metric**: Annual revenue (primarily donations) – see the latest Annual Report for exact figures. The Foundation is the only top-10 website run by a nonprofit, with a typical donation averaging $11. [wikimediafoundation.org/who-we-are/]
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Not funded by venture capital; supported by millions of individual donors. Platinum Seal of Transparency from Candid (Guidestar); four-star rating from Charity Navigator. [wikimediafoundation.org/who-we-are/]
- **Growth Signals**: Remote-first workforce with staff in 40+ countries; nearly 265,000 volunteer editors active each month; over 15 billion page views per month; constant new edits (every minute). [wikimediafoundation.org] [wikimediafoundation.org/jobs/]

## Competitive Advantages
- **Nonprofit independence**: No advertising, no subscription fees, no selling of user data – funded by reader donations, ensuring editorial neutrality.
- **Neutral point of view**: All content must be attributed to reliable sources and presented without bias, a core pillar maintained by a global volunteer community.
- **Massive scale & trust**: Wikipedia is the only top-10 website that is nonprofit; it is the backbone of internet knowledge, used by students, chatbots, and researchers worldwide.
- **Open-source ecosystem**: MediaWiki and all project software are freely available, fostering innovation and community contributions.

## Strategic Focus
- **Protect and sustain free knowledge**: Continue to host and defend Wikipedia while growing the Wikimedia Enterprise product to generate sustainable commercial revenue. [wikimediafoundation.org/jobs/]
- **Support volunteer communities**: Invest in tools, safety, and policies (e.g., Universal Code of Conduct) to empower editors and maintain content quality.
- **Advocate for free knowledge**: Legal and policy efforts to protect the right to access and share information freely.
- **Expand global reach**: Increase readership, content, and partnerships, especially in underrepresented regions.

## Why Work Here
- **Mission-driven culture**: Work that directly supports the goal of free knowledge for every human. The Foundation is committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion, and actively seeks to build diverse teams. [wikimediafoundation.org/jobs/]
- **Remote-first**: Fully remote organization with staff in 40+ countries. Hiring in many US states and countries; flexible work environment. [wikimediafoundation.org/jobs/]
- **Benefits (US)**: Fully paid medical, dental, and vision insurance for employees and eligible families; 401(k) match up to 4%; 16 weeks paid new parent leave + 8 weeks pregnancy leave; generous paid time off (vacation, holidays, sick leave, volunteer days); wellness reimbursement ($450/quarter, up to $1,800/year); professional development reimbursement; equipment stipend (laptop, monitor, plus $600 one-time). [wikimediafoundation.org/jobs/]
- **Engineering culture**: Open-source development, collaborative and consensus-oriented, good work-life balance, opportunity to impact a top-10 website. [wikimediafoundation.org/jobs/]
- **Compensation philosophy**: Salaries set competitively, equitably, and consistently with values; no salary history considered; pay ranges adjusted for location. [wikimediafoundation.org/jobs/]

## Sources
1. [Wikimedia Foundation Homepage](https://wikimediafoundation.org/)
2. [Wikimedia Foundation – Work with Us / Jobs](https://wikimediafoundation.org/jobs/)
3. [Wikimedia Foundation – Who We Are](https://wikimediafoundation.org/who-we-are/)
4. [Wikimedia Foundation Annual Report 2024-25](https://wikimediafoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/Wikimedia-Foundation-2024-2025-Annual-Report.pdf)
5. [Greenhouse Job Board – Wikimedia Foundation](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/wikimedia/jobs/7750534)

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