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About the role
The Wikimedia Foundation is the nonprofit organization that operates Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia free knowledge projects. Wikipedia is read by over a billion people a month in over 300 languages, offered for free, and powered mainly by small donations.
Wikimedia’s Product Safety and Integrity team is charged with keeping Wikipedia a stable and trustworthy place, and protecting its many contributors and readers. We are hiring a Lead Product Manager to bring their experience dealing with modern threats to bear on Wikipedia’s security strategy in the AI era, and to drive a strong security culture throughout the Wikimedia Foundation and movement.
Though this is a senior role, prior experience in a product manager role is not required. This position brings strong technical and security experience into a role focused on product and platform strategy, and reports to the Group Product Manager, Safety and Security.
What you'll do
- Shaping the Wikimedia Foundation’s product security strategy, and strengthening our team and organizational security culture.
- Determining and driving the priorities of a team of engineers focused on security and privacy, and leveraging the support of a cross-functional team of designers, data scientists, community managers, and others across the Product Safety and Integrity team.
- Driving the design and development of technical features and interventions that make it easier for users to safely get things done, and that make it harder for bad actors to compromise the platform.
- Communicating strategically and candidly, in public and private settings, with community members about our work.
- Establishing strong working relationships with volunteers, acting as a representative and conduit between the Wikimedia community and Foundation on security and privacy issues.
- Partnering closely with leaders in other departments to shape WMF’s overall information security posture.
- Actively staying up to date on current developments in online security and privacy, including vulnerability research and development.
What they're looking for
- At least 7 years of professional experience working in teams that build products, including at least 2 years of that time in a security-focused role.
- Experience driving significant security initiatives all the way out the door, in either a senior technical or product management capacity.
- Significant professional experience at using AI-based tools to perform security analysis, and other technical tasks, such as code review and software engineering.
- Comfortable using and learning command-line-based tools as needed.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills and the ability to interact effectively with all levels of management, staff, and communities.
- Capable of managing a diverse range of responsibilities in a dynamic and results-oriented environment.
- Belief that Wikipedia and its community model is a good thing in the world.
- Ability to be decisive and expeditious despite a complex set of stakeholders, including volunteers who perform critical work for the projects.
- Experience working with online communities, especially public ones.
- Non-US employees must have current work authorization in their location; Kenya and Singapore: citizens/permanent residents only.
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Wikimedia benefits
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