Office of the COO
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Director of Operations
Washington, D.C.
The Wikimedia Foundation is looking for an experienced, dynamic, collaborative, forward-thinking Director of Operations to join our leadership team, reporting to the Chief Operating Officer. We’re looking for a performance driven technology leader who lives and breathes process and execution, is collaborative by design, transparent by default, animated by results, and passionate about advancing our free knowledge vision.
Advancement
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Junior Data Analyst, Fundraising
San Francisco, CA or Remote
The Junior Data Analyst will support the fundraising team by generating actionable insights using a variety of big data sources, including donation, email engagement, and pageview data from our global fundraising campaigns.
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Email Engagement Campaign Associate
San Francisco, CA or Remote
The Email Engagement Campaign Associate (EECA) will be responsible for managing and producing email campaigns to engage the Wikimedia Foundation’s global donor base with communications throughout the year, and to cultivate new lists of non-donors.
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Payment Process Manager (Temp to Perm)
San Francisco, CA or Remote
This position’s role is to make payments efficient, effective, and low-cost, while contributing to our global payments strategy. This Expert will be a part of the Fundraising Operations team and manage the day to day risk and operations, bug reports, network and PSP relationships, and work cross-functionally with finance, engineering, and directors to drive and execute the payments strategy.
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Global Campaign Manager - Online Fundraising
San Francisco, CA or Remote
The Global Campaign Manager (GCM) will support the fundraising team mainly by managing the multilingual content for the Wikimedia Foundation’s global fundraising program.
Audiences
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Senior Design Researcher, Languages
Remote
The Wikimedia Foundation’s Design Strategy Group is seeking a senior design researcher to work with to drive exploration and support human-centered development of language-specific features and interventions for Wikipedia projects worldwide. This role would work directly with the Wikimedia Foundation’s Language team, which is responsible for providing standards-based internationalization and localization tools support for Wikimedia sites on the Web and mobile platforms.
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Software Engineer (Multimedia)
Remote (Americas, Europe, Africa) or office (San Francisco)
We’re looking for developers who want to help us build software that serves the world. Our team is hiring a frontend web software engineer (full-time position). This role is great for developers earlier in their professional software engineering career who want to learn more about building and working with systems that scale. You will help make Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons better products for our users.
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Data Quality Analyst (Contract)
San Francisco, CA or Remote
We’re looking for a Data Quality Analyst to help us improve reporting and analysis of key metrics by investigating data integrity issues and ensuring that they are resolved. You’ll work closely with members of the Product Analytics team and stakeholders to understand the health of our data and support reconciliation through partnership with product and technology teams.
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Product Manager (Contributors)
San Francisco, CA or Remote
Wikimedia is looking for an experienced and collaborative Product Manager for our Contributors team, to help build features 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.
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Sr. Data Analyst
San Francisco, CA or Remote
The Product Analytics team is looking for a Senior/Lead Data Analyst who will help advance our mission of informing organization-wide strategies by distilling complex data down to key takeaways.
Communications
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Associate Brand Manager
San Francisco, CA
The Wikimedia Foundation seeks a strategic, collaborative, and creative brand specialist to help us advance one of the world’s most beloved brands: Wikipedia. This position is part of our larger Communications Team and reports to our Senior Global Brand Manager,
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Communications Director
San Francisco, CA or Remote
The Wikimedia Foundation seeks a dynamic senior-level media professional to elevate and amplify the voices and stories of the knowledge equity movement. You will expand capacity for the communications team and create and leverage public relations messages, speeches, opinion pieces, social media and other related tools to consistently articulate the Wikimedia Foundation’s mission through engaging storytelling.
Community Engagement
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Evaluation Strategist
Remote
The Wikimedia Foundation is looking for a collaborative, analytical, and creative Evaluation Strategist to support our community survey work and internal evaluation for the Community Engagement Department. We are seeking someone who is an early to mid-career evaluator with experience conducting mixed method surveys and/or internal evaluation in a non-profit or community setting.
Finance and Administration
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Procurement Specialist
San Francisco, CA
Join the Wikimedia Foundation in our aspiring project to empower people to create and share the sum of all human knowledge. Wikimedia Foundation has a short-term assignment for a Procurement Specialist to support our Procurement, Finance and Accounting team. You will support the FP&A and Accounting teams and collaborate with other internal stakeholders to provide support in our procurement and contract workflows.
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Business & Systems Analyst Lead (Operations)
San Francisco, CA
This role will be responsible for analyzing the current-state of mission-critical Finance and Operations capabilities from a people, process, data and technology perspective and perform root cause analysis to inform future-state recommendations.
Legal
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Legal Fellow (Fall '19)
San Francisco, CA
If you’re a current law student or recent law school graduate passionate about free knowledge and open source issues, applying to our legal fellowship program can provide an immersive in-house experience with specific education and training in the areas of Internet law and free knowledge organizations.
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Contracts Manager
San Francisco, CA or Remote
The Wikimedia Foundation is looking for a skilled and knowledgeable contracts manager to assist us with managing our contract negotiations, help Foundation staff secure necessary business arrangements, and track and report on the contracts workflow using contracts management software.
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General Counsel
San Francisco, New York, Washington, D.C.
The Wikimedia Foundation is seeking an experienced, mission-driven senior executive to serve as General Counsel. The General Counsel will be a key member of the executive leadership team and will be responsible for leading the Foundation’s in-house legal department, including the organization’s public policy group.
Movement Strategy
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Strategy Liaison (Contract, 20 hrs/week)
Remote
Strategy Liaisons will act as a bridge between communities and the Movement Strategy Process, including the Core Team, holding dialogues with communities about the process and incorporating broad community perspectives into all steps.
The Wikimedia Foundation is looking for Strategy Liaisons to play a vital role designing and implementing engagement plans with Arabic, French, German, Hindi, Japanese, Mandarin, Russian, Spanish, Portuguese language communities to ensure their voices and perspectives are heard and considered in the Movement Strategy Process.
Talent and Culture
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Recruiter (Contractor)
Remote
We are seeking a contract Recruiter to assist our global recruiting team supporting various functions across the organization. This is a high touch position requiring a passion for developing strong internal and external relationships, providing a flawless candidate experience, utilizing creative sourcing strategies and critical thinking skills and a thoughtful approach when assessing talent.
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Chief of Talent & Culture
San Francisco, CA or Remote
The Chief of Talent & Culture (T&C) is responsible for leading all aspects of the Human Resources (Talent & Culture) function, including but not limited to talent management and all aspects of culture, diversity, inclusion & equity, and organizational development to meet all global people and organizational needs of the Wikimedia Foundation, both internally and externally.
Technology
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Technical Writer
San Francisco, CA or Remote
The Technical Writer will be responsible for leading the creation and maintenance of educational material for a large community of free software developers.
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Research Scientist
San Francisco, CA or Remote
As a research scientist at the Wikimedia Foundation, you will work with researchers, software engineers, designers, and volunteers to design, test and evaluate new technologies.
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Data Center Engineer
Ashburn, Virginia
We're hiring a Data Center Engineer who will perform data center operations and basic system administration duties. The position is based in Ashburn, Virginia, on-site at the Equinix data center campus.
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Engineering Manager, Machine Learning
San Francisco, CA or Remote
We are looking for an experienced Engineering Manager to help build features 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.
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Project Manager, Security
San Francisco, CA or Remote
The Project Manager will work within the Security and Legal teams and will be responsible for organizing and reporting on tasking efforts related to Security, Data Protection, Compliance, and Privacy for data derived of Wikimedia Projects. The Wikimedia Foundation is an equal opportunity employer, and we encourage people with a diverse range of backgrounds to apply. We also welcome remote and international applicants across all timezones.
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Operations Engineer
San Francisco, CA or Remote
Come work within the Technology department at the Wikimedia Foundation! We are administering a public OpenStack cloud (Infrastructure as a Service) with a modern Platform as a Service (Kubernetes) running on it. We are dedicated to supporting developers within and outside of the Wikimedia Foundation.
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Site Reliability Engineer (Application Platform)
San Francisco, CA or Remote
We are looking for a Site Reliability Engineer to directly support our application platform serving the world’s favorite encyclopædia to millions of people around the globe. Wikipedia and its sister projects are powered strictly by Free and Open Source software with MediaWiki in its core surrounded by an ecosystem of microservices in PHP, NodeJS, Python, Go and Java.
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Chief Technology Officer
San Francisco, CA or Remote
The Wikimedia Foundation is looking for a creative, collaborative, forward-thinking Chief Technology Officer (CTO) to join our executive team. As a member of the organization’s leadership team and senior technology executive, the CTO will lead the development and execution of the technical platform strategy for the Wikimedia Foundation and Wikimedia projects, in partnership with our global communities of volunteers, contributors, users, and researchers. Our vision is for “every human being to share in the sum of all knowledge”, and our platform is essential to that vision.
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Sr. Software Engineer (Scoring Platform)
Remote
As a Senior Software Engineer of the Scoring Platform team, you will help us build and scale our machine prediction service, train new machine learning models, and implement other data-intensive applications.
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Database Administrator
San Francisco, CA or Remote
As a Database Administrator at the Wikimedia Foundation, you will be responsible for the wellbeing of our relational data and the database systems they reside on, including the availability and performance. You should be able to troubleshoot, benchmark and test new builds of MariaDB and MySQL, plan for disaster recovery, and improve and maintain backups. This is a unique opportunity to have a huge impact. Our work is important, and it’s used by hundreds of millions of people.
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Database Architect
San Francisco, CA or Remote
As a Database Architect at the Wikimedia Foundation, you will be responsible for the architecture, design, availability and performance of our database infrastructure in a globally distributed infrastructure. You will work together with our developers and SREs on optimizing queries, schema design and coming up with a data strategy. This is a unique opportunity to have a huge impact. Our work is important, and it’s used by hundreds of millions of people.
Values
We strive for excellence.
We welcome and cherish our differences.
We are in this together.
We engage in civil discourse.
We are inspired.
US Benefits
Medical benefits
Fully paid medical, dental, and vision insurance premiums for employees and their eligible families.
Family-friendly policies
Includes 100% paid new parent leave for seven weeks, plus an additional five weeks for pregnancy.
Wellness program
$1800 annually for fitness memberships, babysitting, continuing education, student loans, and more.
Professional development
We offer course reimbursements, in-house sharing sessions, language program reimbursements, and other opportunities.
Retirement
401(k) retirement plan with matched contributions up to 4% of annual salary.
Time off
Includes vacation days, sick leave, and volunteer time. To make sure there is shared time off every month, we offer 19 holidays per year.
Pre-tax savings plans
For health care, child care, elder care, public transport, and parking expenses. Includes an employer funded HSA option.
Disability & life insurance
Long and short term disability, life insurance (2x salary) and an employee assistance program.
On-site in San Francisco
Including snacks to fuel your thinking, monthly massages, gym, yoga classes, weekly farmers market, gender neutral bathroom, monthly staff lunch, and more.
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