Group Product Manager, Data Platforms

wikimedia; United States; Remote; USD 160,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Wikimedia Foundation seeks a Group Product Manager to guide the development of our data platforms, analytics tools, and related pipelines powering Wikipedia and sister projects. You will lead a team of PMs across data engineering, experimentation, search, and site reliability, shaping strategy and performance metrics for product analytics.

Role requires collaboration with analysts, researchers, and product teams, with global travel up to four times a year and availability for critical meetings

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 and services 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

Responsibilities

• Ensuring the accuracy, usefulness, reliability, and accessibility of our data products
• Defining and setting priorities and roadmaps for Data Platform Engineering teams across four domains: 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 making and facilitating sound decisions
• Managing and developing a team of product managers
• Partnering with user-facing product teams to use the data platform to guide product decisions and build derived-data products

Skills

Data product management

Team leadership

Stakeholder collaboration

Privacy considerations

Data analytics

A/B testing

Data architecture

Tools

Kafka

Flink

Hadoop

Spark

Airflow

Iceberg

Kubernetes

Superset

dbt

OpenSearch

Job description

Summary

Wikipedia 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.

The 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.

In 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.

This position will report to the Senior Director of Product, Core Experiences.

Candidates 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.

This role is accountable for:

• Ensuring the accuracy, usefulness, reliability, and accessibility of our data products
• Defining and setting priorities and roadmaps for Data Platform Engineering teams across four domains: 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 making and facilitating sound decisions
• Managing and developing a team of product managers
• Partnering with user-facing product teams to use the data platform to guide product decisions and build derived-data products

Expected skills and experience include:

• 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 and services 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

Qualities that are important to us:

• Commitment to the mission and values of the Wikimedia Foundation
• Effective at asynchronous communication in a distributed workplace
• Able to navigate and make decisions in circumstances with limited, incomplete, and conflicting information
• Focus on iterative delivery and minimum viability to provide value to customer teams
• Effective 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

Additionally, we would love it if you have:

• Experience with open source, open data, or open knowledge communities
• Experience building products for multiple languages and geographies.
• Experience with the integration of machine learning or artificial intelligence into web products.
• Experience editing Wikipedia or with the Wikipedia, Wikidata, or Wikimedia Commons communities or other collaborative enterprises
• Experience editing Wikipedia or with the Wikipedia.
• Experience editing Wikipedia or with the Wikipedia, Wikidata, or Wikimedia Commons communities or other collaborative
• open source software development knowledge.
• Open source software.
• Open, or was incomplete.

About the Wikimedia Foundation

The 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.

The Wikimedia Foundation is a charitable, n