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Advancement
Japanese Creative Copywriter (Contractor)
Remote
The Wikimedia Foundation is seeking a Japanese-language Creative Copywriter (Contractor) specialized in Marketing to support our Advancement Department during the upcoming Japan fundraising campaign for Wikipedia. This role involves contributing ideas and writing support for banners, email, and other fundraising content. The position is part-time and project-based, with guidance and oversight provided by the Fundraising department’s content team.
Communications
Internal Communications Generalist (Contract)
Remote
We are seeking a creative and strategic Internal Communications Generalist to join our team. Reporting to the Director, Internal Communications, you will collaborate closely with various teams within the Foundation to craft and deliver messaging and opportunities to staff that foster employee engagement and support our organizational goals. Your work will include creating written and visual content to support messaging across our existing internal channels, as well as supporting the Internal Communications team to develop new and dynamic content and platforms for the organization (e.g., videos, blog posts, newsletter). You will also assist the Internal Communications team in coordinating different engagement opportunities for staff. You will help to foster a positive, inclusive culture while ensuring consistent, clear messaging that resonates with staff across the organization.
Social Media Specialist
Remote
The Wikimedia Foundation is looking for a Social Media Specialist who is excited to elevate the voices and stories of the Wikimedia projects and community through digital communications. This is a highly collaborative role, in which you will help shape and execute digital strategies to connect our brands with global audiences. As part of this work, you will manage the Wikimedia Foundation and Wikipedia social media channels, develop inspiring and engaging digital content that engages a wide range of audiences and reflects the Foundation’s values, voice, and tone. You must possess the judgment and writing skills to be one of the public voices of the Foundation online.
Communications Manager
Remote
The Wikimedia Foundation is seeking a Communications Manager to oversee and lead communications for our legal, advocacy, and public policy work, and a number of other initiatives that aim to advance and protect the reputation of the Foundation, Wikipedia, and other Wikimedia projects, and the global Wikimedia community of volunteers.
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People Department
Remote
The Wikimedia Foundation is seeking a People Experience Associate to join the People Department. We believe that our people are our most important asset, and the policy and practice work of our People department is critical to identifying, supporting, developing, and retaining excellent colleagues who advance the Foundation’s mission. In this role, you will work in partnership with People Department colleagues and Employer of Records (EOR) to provide seamless, accurate and timely support to staff working outside of the United States. The right individual will be customer service focused, analytical with a keen eye for detail and process oriented.
Product & Technology
Senior Software Engineer – Trust & Safety
Remote
The Wikimedia Foundation is looking for the software engineer to join the Product Safety and Integrity Team. In this role, you will work in a mostly-remote environment, where we value teamwork and close collaboration to achieve our goals. Engineers at the Wikimedia Foundation get to work on technology that truly makes a global impact — powering Wikipedia and its sister projects, which serve billions of pageviews every month across hundreds of languages. It’s a rare opportunity to contribute to one of the largest knowledge-sharing platforms in the world, and to help protect free access to information for everyone, everywhere.
Senior Software Engineer
Remote
The Wikimedia Foundation is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join the MediaWiki Interfaces team. MediaWiki is the open-source platform that powers Wikipedia and its sister projects – impacting hundreds of millions of Wikipedia users across the globe. Our team owns the web API and other integration interfaces of MediaWiki, enabling other teams to create features that allows users to access, edit, and consume knowledge efficiently and reliably. The MediaWiki Product Insights have more information on the kind of work the group undertakes.
Senior Engineering Manager, Experiment Platform
Remote
Join us as we collaborate to make Wikipedia and others projects better at freely sharing in the sum of all knowledge. As the Engineering Manager for the Experiment Platform Team, you will lead a small high-performing team of engineers building the experimentation platform. In this role, you have an exciting opportunity to shape its architecture and capabilities. You will work alongside product analytics teams, SRE, and data engineering to ensure the platform meets the needs of product teams while maintaining the highest standards for privacy, reliability, and performance. You will work in close partnership with the Product Manager to translate product vision into technical roadmaps, balancing feature requests from product teams with platform reliability and scalability needs.
Group Product Manager, Data Platform Engineering
Remote
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 Products, Data Engineering, 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.
Senior Product Manager, Language and Product Localization
Remote
Wikimedia is looking for an experienced product manager in our Product and Technology department for a team that creates products and features for audiences visiting the multilingual Wikimedia sites. The Product and Technology 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.
Data Engineer
Remote
As a Data Engineer for our Data Platform, you will shape the future of how Wikimedia’s vast data ecosystem serves both our internal teams and the global community. You will contribute the Data Platform Engineering team’s effort to unify data systems across the Wikimedia Foundation to deliver scalable solutions that support the open knowledge movement.
Site Reliability Engineering Manager
Remote
The Wikimedia Foundation is looking for an Engineering Manager to join our SRE team, reporting to the Director of Site Reliability Engineering. As Engineering Manager, you will be responsible for supporting the engineers developing our infrastructure and supporting the services that depend on it, used by hundreds of millions of people around the world.
Engineering Manager, Security and Privacy
Remote
The Wikimedia Foundation is seeking an experienced and mission-driven Engineering Manager to lead the security and privacy engineering group in our Product Safety and Security team, and to advise the Foundation on security and privacy issues. Product Safety and Security is a team made of two tightly connected engineering groups. This role manages a group of security and privacy engineers that strengthen the security and privacy of the applications that make up Wikipedia and our other projects. This role works closely with a peer engineering group focused on promoting the integrity of the Wikipedia platform and the safety of the people that make it work. Both engineering groups report to the Director of Engineering, MediaWiki. This is a leadership role that partners closely with the Group Product Manager for Safety and Security to determine and operationalize the Product Safety and Security team’s roadmap and priorities. We are only considering candidates based in time zones from UTC−5 to UTC+2 time zones.
Lead Program Manager, Developer Outreach
Remote
We are looking for a Lead Program Manager to join our team and manage our Developer Outreach program portfolio. This role reports to the Chief of Staff to the Chief Product and Technology Officer. As the Lead Program Manager, you will independently lead the strategic alignment, design, delivery, and evaluation of critical WMF programs related to volunteer developers and our Hackathons. You will work across multiple teams, departments, and Wikimedia stakeholder groups to deliver programs that achieve impact in strategic areas of change and development.
Senior Data Engineer
Remote
As a Senior Data Engineer for our Data Platform, you will shape the future of how Wikimedia’s vast data ecosystem serves both our internal teams and the global community. You will help drive the Data Platform Engineering team’s effort to unify data systems across the Wikimedia Foundation to deliver scalable solutions that support internal and external platform users and the open knowledge movement.
Staff Site Reliability Engineer
Remote
The Wikimedia Foundation is looking for a Staff Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) focused on Machine Learning Infrastructure. You will join a distributed team working across UTC -5 to UTC +3 (Eastern Americas, Europe, and Africa) and report directly to the Director of Machine Learning, Chris Albon. As a Staff SRE specializing in ML infrastructure, your primary responsibility is designing, developing, maintaining, and scaling the foundational infrastructure that enables Wikimedia’s Machine Learning Engineers and Researchers to efficiently train, deploy, and monitor machine learning models in production.
Senior Site Reliability Engineer
Remote
Wikimedia Foundation is hiring a Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to join our Service Operations SRE team, where we take care of the infrastructure that runs wikipedia.org and other Wikimedia Foundation projects. As a senior engineer in the SRE Service Operations team, you will be involved in designing and running the infrastructure and services that form the base of Wikimedia Foundation’s projects, including, but not limited to: Kubernetes clusters, application servers, related datastores, and other developer-facing services. You will participate in 24/7 incident response and be on-call rotation. This role requires frequent work with other members of the SRE team to maintain and improve our systems, as well as interacting with people not in SRE, like Security, Release, and Software Engineers, together striving to move our projects and technologies forward.
Lead Product Manager, Reader Growth
Remote
The Wikimedia Foundation is looking for an enterprising lead product manager to help evolve the Wikipedia reading experience for a new generation of readers. This role will be on the newly formed Reader Growth team in our Product and Technology department. The Product and Technology 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.
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Values
We are in this mission together
We do great work and improve
We welcome everyone who shares our Vision and Values
We listen and share with curiosity
Read more about our values.
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Commitment
We trust our personal and organizational accountability
We envision a world in which every single person can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. We believe knowledge belongs to everyone, and in order to empower people from diverse backgrounds to participate in the collaborative creation of knowledge, we need to build diverse teams that reflect the communities we support and an inclusive culture of belonging that embraces the potential of our diversity.
We believe in co-creating safe, respectful and collaborative work spaces. We aspire to generate a sense of belonging by understanding each and everyone’s differences, contexts and experiences. Through our actions, we ensure that the staff at the Foundation has a healthy work environment where they can flourish.
We acknowledge diversity as a core value that is essential to fulfilling our mission.
We are an equal opportunity employer and do not tolerate any form of discrimination. This enables us to attract, develop, and retain amazing talent.
We are committed to cherishing our differences, and putting people first. We seek to foster a creative environment that unleashes innovative solutions toward building a more inclusive and equitable hiring and retention process. This commitment starts at the top of our organization and moves through every level of hiring from managers to individual contributors. We strive to ensure excellence in our work by building this path together.
Equal Employment Opportunity Statement
As an equal opportunity employer, the Wikimedia Foundation values having a diverse workforce and continuously strives to maintain an inclusive and equitable workplace. We encourage people with a diverse range of backgrounds to apply. We do not discriminate against any person based upon their race, traits historically associated with race, religion, color, national origin, sex, pregnancy or related medical conditions, parental status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, genetic information, or any other legally protected characteristics.
If you are a qualified applicant requiring assistance or an accommodation to complete any step of the application process due to a disability, you may contact us at recruiting@wikimedia.org or +1 (415) 839-6885.
United States Benefits and Perks
Health Care Benefits
Fully paid medical, dental, and vision insurance premiums for employees and their eligible families.
New Parent Leave
We provide a total of 16 weeks of paid new parent leave, plus an additional 8 weeks of paid pregnancy leave.
Wellness Reimbursement Program
We provide $450 per quarter up to $1,800.00 a year for reimbursement for staff wellness expenses, such as gym fees, educational expenses, and more!
Professional Development Program
We offer reimbursement of conferences, college/university classes, online programs, and books related to work that supports the Wikimedia Foundation.
401(k) Retirement Plan
401(k) retirement plan with matched contributions up to 4% of annual salary.
Time Off
Generous paid time off policy which includes: vacation days, holidays, sick leave, and volunteer days.
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.
Equipment Stipend
Equipment including a laptop, monitor, plus a one-time $600 stipend to cover any additional needs to make sure you have the best work from home experience.
*Please note that for remote roles located outside of the U.S., we defer to our EOR (Employer of Record) to ensure alignment with local labor laws.
Current Hiring Locations
The Wikimedia Foundation is a remote-first organization with staff members including contractors based in 40+ countries.
Please note that we are currently able to hire in the following countries: Australia, Austria, Bangladesh, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Costa Rica, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Egypt, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Ghana, Greece, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Kenya, Mexico, Netherlands, Nigeria, Peru, Poland, Singapore, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Uganda, United Kingdom, United States of America and Uruguay.
We periodically review this list to streamline to ensure alignment with our hiring requirements.
Our non-US based employees are hired through a local third party Employer of Record (EOR).
Compensation Philosophy
Salaries at the Wikimedia Foundation are set in a way that is competitive, equitable, and consistent with our values and culture.
In compliance with local legislation within the US, we post the anticipated annual pay range for each position for applicants with multiple individualized factors, including cost of living in the location, being the determinants of the offered pay.
For applicants located outside of the US, the pay range will be adjusted to the country of hire.
We neither ask for nor take into consideration the salary history of applicants. The compensation for a successful applicant will be based on their skills, experience and location.
All applicants can reach out to their recruiter to understand more about the specific pay range for their location during the interview process.
Applicant Privacy Policy
The Wikimedia Foundation (“Wikimedia“) values your trust and is committed to the responsible management, use and protection of personal information. This Applicant Privacy Policy (“Policy“) describes our practices regarding the information that we collect in connection to your application for a job or internship with Wikimedia.
Learn more about our Applicant Privacy Policy.
