Senior Product Manager, Mobile Apps (Contract)

wikimedia; United States; Remote; USD 96,000 - 165,000; Part time

Job summary

Wikimedia is seeking an experienced product manager for the Mobile Apps team on a 6-month remote contract. You will own end-to-end features for Android and iOS, collaborating with engineers, designers, and the Wikimedia community.

The role emphasizes ideation, scoping, requirements, and measurement, with synchronous hours 14:00–19:00 UTC. You will work hands-on, write clear specs, define success metrics, and drive releases while contributing to reader experiences and app growth.

Qualifications

• 3+ years managing user-facing mobile apps on Android or iOS.
• Proven end-to-end scoping and shipping features in large consumer apps.
• Hands-on, self-directed with limited oversight.
• Strong organization and documentation habits with a single source of truth.
• Experience working with Phabricator.

Responsibilities

• Lead the mobile app product development process from ideation to release and analysis.
• Define scoping, requirements, and release plans within team OKRs.
• Write clear kick-off decks, requirements and user stories for engineers and design.
• Set success metrics with data analysts and evaluate impact.
• Experiment, release, and iterate to deliver incremental value.
• Collaborate with Group PM and communications, marketing, and legal teams.
• Coordinate with other apps product managers to align priorities.
• Maintain a single source of truth for decisions and risks.
• Produce community-facing documentation and gather feedback from volunteers.

Skills

Mobile product management

Android/iOS

Requirements writing

Data & analytics

Cross-functional collaboration

Tools

Phabricator

OKRs

Analytics tools

Job description

SENIOR PRODUCT MANAGER, MOBILE APPS (CONTRACT)

Location: Remote, 6-month contract

Hours: 40 hrs/week, available for synchronous collaboration between 14:00-19:00 UTC

Summary

Wikimedia is looking for an experienced product manager (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 with 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 learning.

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 January through the end of July. Candidates must be available for critical meetings and synchronous work between 14:00-19:00 UTC. This role will report to the Readers Group Product Manager.

About this role

This is a hands‑on, individual contributor role. You will personally write the requirements, file tasks, create measurement plans, and provide community updates for your workstreams, and you will own each step from ideation through release, analysis and reporting.

Because this role covers a leave, the product manager who normally leads the App Growth team will not be available for day‑to‑day guidance for most of the contract. We're looking for someone self‑directed and entrepreneurial: someone who ramps up quickly, takes an ambiguous problem, scopes it into something the team can ship in a matter of weeks, and makes sound decisions without waiting to be told. You will have a strong cross‑functional team, a lot of documentation for context, and a manager to elevate to, but you should expect to pull together data, research and documentation to set your own direction within the team's OKRs and established roadmap.

Success in this role is measured by what ships and what we learn from it.

You are responsible for:

• 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 and experience:

• 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. Be ready to walk us through specific features you scoped, wrote requirements for, launched, and measured
• 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 c