Senior Product Manager, MediaWiki Core Platform - Remote

Senior Product Manager, MediaWiki Core Platform

The Wikimedia Foundation is looking for a Senior Product Manager to join our newly formed MediaWiki Product team, reporting to the Director of Product, MediaWiki and Developer Experiences.

MediaWiki is the software platform that powers Wikipedia and its sister projects, used by hundreds of millions of people each month. MediaWiki has been built to enable the creation, moderation, storage, discovery and consumption of open content in different languages and at scale. As a free and open source software, MediaWiki is also used by many other projects and sites.

As a Senior Product Manager on the MediaWiki Product team, you will contribute to the product strategy for MediaWiki and its effective execution with focus on improving and evolving the essential capabilities and concepts that our knowledge production platform needs to efficiently support the scale and use cases of Wikipedia and other core needs. 

We are looking for someone eager to develop a deep understanding of MediaWiki, its core concepts and the technical audiences we’re serving, who can break down complex problems into actionable steps, and is comfortable working and communicating in a public environment. 

You will work as part of a geographically distributed group of platform product managers and engineering teams and in close collaboration with other teams at the Wikimedia Foundation and contributors to the MediaWiki software. Your working hours will need to overlap with UTC-5 to UTC+2 time zones. 

You are responsible for:

• Acquiring an in-depth understanding of the technology, challenges and opportunities of the core platform, its design goals and requirements to serve Wikimedia’s needs and audiences
• Collaborating effectively with peer MediaWiki product managers and engineering teams as well as other stakeholders …