Senior Product Manager, Mobile Apps (Contract)

Senior Product Manager, Mobile Apps (6-month contract)

Summary

Wikimedia is looking for an experienced product manager (6-month contract) for the Mobile Apps team in our Product department. The Product 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 on one of the most beloved parts of the internet.

Wikipedia is one of the most popular media properties in the world, visited by over 1 billion people a month across over 300 different languages. All this knowledge is created and managed by more than 200,000 volunteer editors. The Wikipedia mobile apps are a fast and fun way to read Wikipedia. The Wikipedia apps for Android and iOS are ad-free and available in more than 300 languages. They are the best place to be a fan of Wikipedia and to learn.

As a product manager with the Mobile Apps team (contract), you will work with engineers, designers, community members, other product managers, and our volunteer community to deliver on the reader strategy, with a focus on improving the experience of our most committed app users. This is a contract position to cover a parental leave (6 months). 

Candidates must be available for critical meetings and synchronous work between 14:00-19:00 UTC.  This role will report to the Lead Product Manager, Mobile Apps.  

You are responsible for:

• Leading the product development process to refine, develop, and deliver features that deepen app retention, support the Active→Contributor funnel, and sustain app donors, within the guardrails of our OKRs and strategic direction. 
• Collaborating with fellow apps product managers to stay aligned on higher-level strategic priorities, identify, and execute the direction of the apps team
• Work with the other apps product managers to discover and define new opportunities to set future KRs
• Producing and updating community facing documentation
• Setting priorities for a cross-functional product team of a designer, engineering manager, software engineers, QA engineer, data analyst, and community relations specialist.
• Experimenting, releasing, and iterating intentionally to provide incremental value rapidly and validate hypotheses.
• Using quantitative and qualitative methods to evaluate impact.

Skills and experience:

• 5+ years of experience as a Product Manager
• 3+ years of experience managing user-facing products in a mobile first environment, working on Android or iOS applications
• Demonstrated success in launching new features in large-scale consumer apps
• Experience working with cross-functional teams
• Success making decisions in fast-changing and ambiguous situations
• Experience working in an agile or iterative software development environment
• Commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion
• Strong listening skills
• Ability to clearly communicate plans and results to stakeholders and collaborators verbally and in written form
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in relevant work experience
• A desire to make meaningful contributions to knowledge equity, free culture, and open access

Additionally, we’d love it if you had:

• Experience with a two-sided platform or marketplace product
• Experience with personalization features
• Proficiency with data, reporting, analytics, or A/B testing
• Experience building products that support positive user habits, engagement, or ongoing value creation over time
• Experience with fully remote, geographically distributed, and asynchronous teams
• Experience working with communities, volunteers, or open source projects
• Experience editing Wikipedia or contributi