{"id":3876095,"url":"https://alion.io/job/wikimedia-foundation-group-product-manager-data-platforms","title":"Group Product Manager, Data Platforms","company":{"id":6913,"name":"Wikimedia Foundation","domain":"wikimediafoundation.org","url":"https://alion.io/company/wikimedia-foundation","size_band":null,"is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Greenhouse","truth_index":null},"role":"Product","role_family":"Product","seniority":"lead","employment_type":null,"work_mode":"remote","remote_scope":"stated_countries","remote_scope_basis":"posting_text","remote_working_hours":{"label":"UTC","utc_offset_min":0,"utc_offset_max":0},"hiring_geo_confidence":"inferred","locations":[],"countries":[],"hiring_countries":["US"],"hiring_countries_total":1,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":5,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"A/B Testing","optional":false},{"name":"Apache Kafka","optional":false},{"name":"dbt","optional":false},{"name":"Flink","optional":false},{"name":"Hadoop","optional":false},{"name":"Kubernetes","optional":false},{"name":"Machine Learning","optional":false},{"name":"OpenSearch","optional":false},{"name":"Superset","optional":false},{"name":"Wikipedia","optional":false},{"name":"Platform Engineering","optional":true}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-11-06T14:02:33Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-11-06","last_verified_at":"2026-11-09T11:40:48Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":2,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":2},"description":"Summary\nWikipedia 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, the collection of technologies we use to understand how Wikipedia works, improve its experiences, and spread free knowledge.\nThe 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.\nIn 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.\nThis position will report to the Senior Director of Product, Core Experiences.\nCandidates 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.\nThis role is accountable for:\nEnsuring the accuracy, usefulness, reliability, and accessibility of our data products\nDefining and setting priorities and roadmaps for Data Platform Engineering teams across four domains: data engineering, search, experimentation, and site reliability\nProduct lifecycle management of the products, services, and tools of the Data Platform Engineering teams \nCo-developing product strategy, providing leadership, and making and facilitating sound decisions\nManaging and developing a team of product managers\nPartnering with user-facing product teams to use the data platform to guide product decisions and build derived-data products\nExpected skills and experience include:\nMinimum of 5 years of product management experience with data or infrastructure products\nExperience hiring and managing product managers\nSuccess delivering data and analytical products and services depended on by multiple product teams\nExpertise in data analytics, A/B testing, search, and data architecture \nStrong understanding of modern techniques for handling high-scale data\nKnowledge of search technologies\nExperience navigating privacy issues around data collection, retention, and distribution\nAbility to work with multiple stakeholder teams to deliver results through lateral influence and collaboration \nQualities that are important to us:\nCommitment to the mission and values of the Wikimedia Foundation\nEffective at asynchronous communication in a distributed workplace\nAble to navigate and make decisions in circumstances with limited, incomplete, and conflicting information\nFocus on iterative delivery and minimum viability to provide value to customer teams\nEffective 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\nAdditionally, we would love it if you have:\nExperience with open source, open data, or open knowledge communities\nExperience building products for multiple languages and geographies.\nExperience with the integration of machine learning or artificial intelligence into web products.\nExperience editing Wikipedia or with the Wikipedia, Wikidata, or Wikimedia Commons communities or other collaborative enterprises\nOpen source software development experience\nFamiliarity with MediaWiki\nAbout the Wikimedia Foundation\nThe 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. \nThe 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.\nAs 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.\nThe 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.\n*Please note that we are currently able to hire in the following:\nUS 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)\nCountries: 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. 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