Group Product Lead, Data Platform (Remote)

Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.; San Francisco (CA); Remote; USD 132,000 - 206,000; Full time

Job summary

The Wikimedia Foundation seeks a Group Product Manager to guide data platforms, analytics, and related services for reading and editing Wikipedia and sister projects. You will lead a group of PMs across data engineering, search, experimentation, and reliability, reporting to the Senior Director of Product, Core Experiences.

This senior role requires strong stakeholder influence, a focus on MVVi (minimum viable product) delivery, and deep knowledge of data tech, privacy, and open knowledge.

Qualifications

• 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 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.
• Effective at asynchronous communication in a distributed workplace.

Responsibilities

• Guide the evolution of data pipelines, data lake, experiment platform, and analytics tools.
• Define priorities and roadmaps for Data Platform Engineering teams across 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 facilitating sound decisions.
• Managing and developing a team of product managers.
• Partner with user-facing product teams to use the data platform to guide product decisions.

Skills

Data analytics

A/B testing

Search

Data architecture

Asynchronous communication

Stakeholder collaboration

Written communication

Tools

Kafka

Flink

Hadoop

Spark

Airflow

Iceberg

Kubernetes

Superset

dbt

OpenSearch

Job description

The Wikimedia Foundation seeks a Group Product Manager to guide data platforms, analytics, and related services for reading and editing Wikipedia and sister projects. You will lead a group of PMs across data engineering, search, experimentation, and reliability, reporting to the Senior Director of Product, Core Experiences.

This senior role requires strong stakeholder influence, a focus on MVVi (minimum viable product) delivery, and deep knowledge of data tech, privacy, and open knowledge.