Remote Senior Product Manager - Mobile Apps (Contract)

Wikimedia Foundation; United States; Remote; USD 112,000 - 173,000; Full time

Job summary

The Wikimedia Foundation is seeking a Senior Product Manager for Mobile Apps on a 6-month remote contract. You will own end-to-end features, write clear requirements, and measure impact with a cross-functional team. The role demands self-direction, fast decision-making, and collaboration with engineers, designers, and volunteers.

You will align with readers group strategies, manage weekly updates, and deliver impactful app enhancements while supporting knowledge equity and open access.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience managing user-facing products in a mobile first environment, working on Android or iOS applications.
• A track record of personally scoping and shipping features end to end in large-scale consumer apps.
• A hands-on, self-directed working style: you are comfortable doing the detailed work yourself and moving projects forward with limited oversight
• Strong organization and documentation habits: you take thorough notes, build on context from earlier conversations, and keep a single source of truth for your projects
• 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
• A desire to make meaningful contributions to knowledge equity, free culture, and open access

Responsibilities

• Leading the product development process from ideation and discovery in a defined project area, through scoping, requirements, release and analysis, for features that convert web readers to retained app readers, and sustained app donors, within the guardrails of our OKRs, roadmap and strategic direction.
• Scoping work realistically: breaking ambitious ideas into MVPs and phased releases that fit team capacity and the contract timeline, and making trade-offs explicit.
• Writing clear, complete kick-off decks, requirements and user stories in Phabricator that engineers, designers and other various stakeholders can build from without repeated clarification.
• Setting success metrics: defining hypotheses and measurement plans with the data analyst before work enters development, then using quantitative and qualitative methods to evaluate impact.
• Experimenting, releasing, and iterating intentionally to provide incremental value rapidly and validate hypotheses.
• Coordinating with the Group PM in collaboration with the Communications, Marketing, and Legal functions to execute high-profile projects.
• Collaborating with fellow apps product managers to stay aligned on higher-level strategic priorities, identify, and execute the direction of the apps team while honoring apps team culture
• Owning the information for your workstreams: keeping decisions, notes, and open questions documented in a single source of truth, and surfacing risks, blockers, and changes in direction early.
• Producing and updating community-facing documentation, and holding conversations with volunteer communities to gather feedback on projects and ideas, collaboratively adapting plans when needed.

Skills

Mobile apps management

End-to-end shipping

Self-directed

Documentation habits

Cross-functional collaboration

Agile / iterative development

Diversity, equity, inclusion

Strong listening

Clear written communication

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent

Knowledge equity / open access

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in relevant work experience

Job description

The Wikimedia Foundation is seeking a Senior Product Manager for Mobile Apps on a 6-month remote contract. You will own end-to-end features, write clear requirements, and measure impact with a cross-functional team. The role demands self-direction, fast decision-making, and collaboration with engineers, designers, and volunteers.

You will align with readers group strategies, manage weekly updates, and deliver impactful app enhancements while supporting knowledge equity and open access.