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Senior Product Manager, Fundraising CRM

Remote

The Senior Product Manager is responsible for overseeing the development, strategy, and growth of our Customer Relationship Management (CRM) system, CiviCRM. Reporting to the Director of Fundraising Technology, the Senior Product Manager, CRM will be responsible for the development, strategy and growth of the CRM system and supporting fundraising colleagues by ensuring that our CRM enables fundraising objectives and strategies. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in product management and strategy as well as fundraising and CRM experience at a similar sized non-profit organization.

Senior CRM Administrator

Remote

The CRM Administrator is a critical part of the Wikimedia Foundation’s Fundraising Technology team, which supports the fundraising program. The team is responsible for our Customer Relationship Management (CRM), data analytics platform (including a data lake, reporting, and integrations), payments integrations, and any donor-facing software. 

Communications

Senior Marketing Manager

Remote

The Wikimedia Foundation seeks an innovative, creative and collaborative marketing leader to define and execute strategies for engaging young people (aged 18-25) on short form video platforms with Wikipedia. As part of this work, they will build and lead a fast moving and dynamic team from across departments to create a range of dynamic and experimental content and creative campaigns that can help us unleash our potential in reaching this important audience group on these channels. Our work on short form video is part of the Foundation’s Future Audiences initiative, which explores strategies for creating new audiences for Wikipedia, in an effort to reach everyone in the world with the sum of all human knowledge. We know that young people are spending more time on short form video platforms (TikTok, Instagram Reels, etc) than on traditional search engines or websites to get their information (see our report on global trends).

Finance and Administration

Senior Specialist, Global Meetings

Remote

This role manages the end-to-end execution of international meetings and multi-day working sessions for internal teams at the Wikimedia Foundation. With a globally distributed workforce of 700+ staff, these in-person and hybrid convenings—approximately 35 annually—are essential to the organization’s success. The role also involves attending 8-10 larger internal or community-facing global events. As a meeting and event planning professional, you will oversee needs assessment, vendor and venue sourcing, budgeting, contract negotiation, and on-site logistics. You will also ensure safety and security planning, provide real-time problem-solving, and deliver exceptional service to traveling staff and virtual participants.

Legal

Senior Trust & Safety Policy Manager

Remote

The Wikimedia Foundation is seeking a Senior Trust & Safety Policy Manager to advance our mission of empowering every human to freely share in the sum of all knowledge. As part of our Legal team, you will help build and maintain safe, welcoming environments for the diverse global community of volunteers who create and curate free knowledge on Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects. Our commitment to safety, efficiency, and fairness is essential to ensuring access to free, reliable information worldwide.

Legal Case Specialist

Remote

The Wikimedia Foundation is looking for a Legal Case Specialist to join our dynamic Legal Department. This is a non-attorney position, reporting to the Tech Law Program Manager. As the Legal Case Specialist, you will be responsible for analyzing, responding to, or triaging a variety of legal requests and demands received by the Wikimedia Foundation from around the world, including issues related to defamation and free expression, privacy, and intellectual property. You will coordinate with Foundation attorneys, members of the Trust & Safety team, and members of the volunteer editor communities to solve legal issues. You will also play a role in data gathering, drafting, and publication of our bi-annual Transparency Reports that are based on these incoming requests. Additionally, you will be embedded in the team working specifically on compliance with technology regulations, including the EU Digital Services Act, to assist with ongoing requirements including annual audits regarding our internal complaint handling, and implementation of audit recommendations. As part of your work, you will communicate with various outside parties including attorneys, volunteers, vendors, and members of the public.

Associate General Counsel

Remote

Wikimedia envisions a world where the sum total of human knowledge is available to everyone.  The Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit home of Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons, and other free educational projects, serves as the hub of a global movement of hundreds of thousands of contributors collaborating to collect and share the sum of all human knowledge with the world. Protecting the privacy of Wikimedia readers, contributors, and donors is a key element of our work as an organization. Our Legal team counsels Foundation engineers as they create tools and features for Wikipedia, secure the websites, and collaborate with volunteer developers to design and build the future of the projects. We are looking for an Associate General Counsel to support the Deputy General Counsel in leading key functions in the Legal team, with specific focus on further refinement of our privacy and product counseling workflows.

People Department

Senior Manager, People Growth & Belonging

Remote

The Wikimedia vision is a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge, and the People Growth & Belonging (PG&B) Team leads the Wikimedia Foundation’s effort to provide staff with the tools, opportunities, and learning materials needed to shape a welcoming and supportive workplace environment where everyone has the chance to thrive. As a Senior Manager, you will lead a team that integrates Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DEI) and Learning & Development (L&D) principles, ensuring that these two areas reinforce each other.

Product & Technology

Deputy Chief Product and Technology Officer

Remote

As the professional focused on developing the product and technology work of the Foundation, the Deputy Chief Product and Technology Officer (Deputy CPTO) will report to and work with the Chief Product and Technology Officer (CPTO) to drive the development and execution of our technical platform strategy with our global communities of volunteer editors, developers, researchers, users and Wikimedia affiliates. Succeeding in this environment will require taking a hands-on approach to connecting with a broad array of stakeholders and supporting the product and technology leadership team across diverse areas of specialization, including software engineering, site reliability engineering, engineering productivity, technical engagement, research, security, machine learning, data science, product strategy and management, design, and analytics with a focus on innovation and rapid iteration.

Lead Technical Program Manager (Contract)

Remote

We are looking for an experienced Technical Program Manager (TPgM) to drive critical cross-functional programs, ensure strategic alignment of the work, and guide teams toward impactful outcomes. In this role, you’ll be both a trusted thought partner and a hands-on execution-oriented driver, enabling teams to deliver complex programs with clarity, efficiency, and measurable results. We are looking for someone with a proven ability to build strong cross-functional relationships and align diverse stakeholders around shared strategic objectives. The role requires skills in navigating ambiguity with a flexible and adaptive approach.

Software Engineer – Growth Team

The Wikimedia Foundation is looking for product software engineers to join the Growth team, reporting to product engineering management. As a product engineer, you will be responsible for building out the user facing components for our product user experiences. In this role, you will work in a remote environment, where we value teamwork and a consensus-oriented approach. You get to write open source code for collaborative experiences supporting over a half a billion pages accessed per day, and you get to do it at a place that believes we’re all more successful when everyone has a good work-life balance.

Software Engineer – Moderator Tools

The Wikimedia Foundation is looking for a product software engineer to join the Moderator Tools team, reporting to product engineering management. As a product engineer, you will be responsible for building out components for our product user experiences. In this role, you will work in a remote environment, where we value teamwork and a consensus-oriented approach. You get to write open-source code for collaborative experiences supporting over half a billion pages accessed per day, and you get to do it at a place that believes we’re all more successful when everyone has a good work-life balance.

Senior Product Manager, Reader Experience

Remote

The Wikimedia Foundation is looking for an enterprising senior product manager to serve the needs of today’s Wikipedia readers by joining the new Reader Experience team in our Product and Technology department.  The Product and Technology 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.

Lead Product Manager, Reader Growth

Remote

The Wikimedia Foundation is looking for an enterprising lead product manager to help evolve the Wikipedia reading experience for a new generation of readers.  This role will be on the newly formed Reader Growth team in our Product and Technology department.  The Product and Technology 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. 

Lead Product Manager, Wikidata Platform

Remote

The Wikimedia Foundation is looking for a collaborative Lead Product Manager to lead the vision, strategy, and roadmap of the query platform for Wikidata, one of the world’s largest open linked databases. Wikidata facilitates much of the structure of Wikipedia content and contributor activities, making an impact on billions of users across 300+ languages. It is also a critical resource for libraries, universities, and other technology platforms. Our vision is a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all human knowledge. This includes access to data for editing workflow support, research, feature development, and advancing artificial intelligence responsibly.

Tech Lead, Wikidata Platform

Remote

The Wikimedia Foundation is looking for a collaborative technical lead to guide the sustainment, development, and evolution of the query platform for Wikidata, one of the world’s largest open linked databases. Wikidata facilitates much of the structure of Wikipedia content and contributor activities, making an impact on billions of users across 300+ languages. It also is a critical resource for libraries, universities, and other technology platforms. Our vision is a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all human knowledge. This includes access to data for editing workflow support, research, feature development, and advancing artificial intelligence responsibly.

Senior Product Manager, Abstract Wikipedia

Remote

The Wikimedia Foundation is looking for a collaborative Senior Product Manager to support our work on Abstract Wikipedia, a project that aims to increase access to encyclopedic knowledge by enabling more people to share more knowledge in more languages.

Director of Engineering, MediaWiki

Remote

The Director of Engineering, MediaWiki is accountable for the MediaWiki Engineering Group in the Wikimedia Foundation and is an active participant in the strategic decision making for the Product and Technology department and across the Wikimedia movement. The teams in this group build, maintain, and improve upon MediaWiki, 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 free and open source software, MediaWiki is also used by many other projects and sites.

Senior Database Administrator

Remote

The Wikimedia Foundation is seeking a Senior DBA. Our objective is to make the sum of all human knowledge available to everyone, and we persist most of this knowledge in MariaDB. Our project sites are some of the most highly visited on the internet, with more page views per engineer than any other site.

Senior Software Engineer   

Remote

The Wikimedia Foundation is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join the MediaWiki Interfaces team. MediaWiki is the open-source platform that powers Wikipedia and its sister projects – impacting hundreds of millions of Wikipedia users across the globe. Our team owns the web API and other integration interfaces of MediaWiki, enabling other teams to create features that allows users to access, edit, and consume knowledge efficiently and reliably. The MediaWiki Product Insights have more information on the kind of work the group undertakes. This role offers a unique opportunity to combine technical depth with mission-driven impact. As a Senior Engineer, you will not only write robust code but also lead by example, prioritize high-impact work, support better decision-making through metrics and observability and foster a culture of accountability, transparency, and continuous improvement.

Lead UX Designer – iOS

Remote

The Product Design team at Wikimedia is seeking a Lead UX Designer with an expert understanding of user experience and product development processes to work within our Apps team, supporting the Wikipedia iOS app and selected features on the Android app. You will lead all aspects of the user experience, partnering with the other product leads to conceive and execute upon the product strategy for your product team.

Values

We are in this mission together

We do great work and improve

We welcome everyone who shares our Vision and Values

We listen and share with curiosity

Read more about our values.

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Commitment

We trust our personal and organizational accountability

We envision a world in which every single person can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. We believe knowledge belongs to everyone, and in order to empower people from diverse backgrounds to participate in the collaborative creation of knowledge, we need to build diverse teams that reflect the communities we support and an inclusive culture of belonging that embraces the potential of our diversity.

We believe in co-creating safe, respectful and collaborative work spaces. We aspire to generate a sense of belonging by understanding each and everyone’s differences, contexts and experiences. Through our actions, we ensure that the staff at the Foundation has a healthy work environment where they can flourish.

We acknowledge diversity as a core value that is essential to fulfilling our mission.

We are an equal opportunity employer and do not tolerate any form of discrimination. This enables us to attract, develop, and retain amazing talent.

We are committed to cherishing our differences, and putting people first. We seek to foster a creative environment that unleashes innovative solutions toward building  a more inclusive and equitable hiring and retention process. This commitment starts at the top of our organization and moves through every level of hiring from managers to individual contributors. We strive to ensure excellence in our work by building this path together.

Equal Employment Opportunity Statement

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.

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.

United States Benefits and Perks

Health Care Benefits

Fully paid medical, dental, and vision insurance premiums for employees and their eligible families.

New Parent Leave

We provide a total of 16 weeks of paid new parent leave, plus an additional 8 weeks of paid pregnancy leave.

Wellness Reimbursement Program

We provide $450 per quarter up to $1,800.00 a year for reimbursement for staff wellness expenses, such as gym fees, educational expenses, and more!

Professional Development Program

We offer reimbursement of conferences, college/university classes, online programs, and books related to work that supports the Wikimedia Foundation.

401(k) Retirement Plan

401(k) retirement plan with matched contributions up to 4% of annual salary.

Time Off

Generous paid time off policy which includes: vacation days, holidays, sick leave, and volunteer days.

Pre-tax Savings Plans

For health care, child care, elder care, public transport, and parking expenses. Includes an employer funded HSA option.

Disability & Life Insurance

Long and short term disability, life insurance (2x salary) and an employee assistance program.

Equipment Stipend

Equipment including a laptop, monitor, plus a one-time $600 stipend to cover any additional needs to make sure you have the best work from home experience.

*Please note that for remote roles located outside of the U.S., we defer to our EOR (Employer of Record) to ensure alignment with local labor laws.

Current Hiring Locations

The Wikimedia Foundation is a remote-first organization with staff members including contractors based in 40+ countries. 

Please note that we are currently able to hire in the following countries: Australia, Austria, Bangladesh, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Costa Rica, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Egypt, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Ghana, Greece, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Kenya, Mexico, Netherlands, Nigeria, Peru, Poland, Singapore, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Uganda, United Kingdom, United States of America and Uruguay.  

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

Our non-US based employees are hired through a local third party Employer of Record (EOR).

Compensation Philosophy

Salaries at the Wikimedia Foundation are set in a way that is competitive, equitable, and consistent with our values and culture.  

In compliance with local legislation within the US, we post the anticipated annual pay range for each position for applicants 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. 

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

Applicant Privacy Policy

The Wikimedia Foundation (“Wikimedia“) values your trust and is committed to the responsible management, use and protection of personal information. This Applicant Privacy Policy (“Policy“) describes our practices regarding the information that we collect in connection to your application for a job or internship with Wikimedia.

Learn more about our Applicant Privacy Policy.