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Advancement

Director of Fundraising Operations

Remote

The Director of Fundraising Operations will report to the Vice President of Advancement and is a key member of the Advancement leadership team participating in strategic decision making for the fundraising team. This role will lead the Fundraising Operations team to provide analytical, donor relations, and other operational support to Wikimedia’s overall fundraising program, including the Online Fundraising, Major Gifts, and Endowment teams. 

Communications

Movement Communications Associate (Contract)

Remote

The Wikimedia Foundation is looking for a Movement Communications Associate to join the team, reporting to the Senior Manager, Movement Communications on a 40 hours contract. This role will support the Movement Communications team in building a better front door for the Foundation. Understanding and experience of Wikipedia editing, Wiki projects and Meta – Wiki is essential. The role will work closely with the team supporting the creation of blog articles, and wiki content pages to communicate the work of various Foundation teams and community volunteers to help tell the story of the work happening in and around the Wikimedia movement

Communications Project Manager

Remote

The Wikimedia Foundation is looking for a Project Manager to join the Communications department, reporting to the Senior Program Manager. As a Project Manager in the Communications department, you will liaise regularly with and across several creative teams, acting as a strategic partner to writers, designers, marketers, and movement communications specialists. Our work often touches upon different departments across the Foundation with varying degrees of interdependencies. Part of your role will be to manage project plans, define schedules, lead meetings, track progress, schedule and facilitate cross-team and cross-departmental projects, support our collective work, and help us to explore possible futures. 

Wikimania Event Associate (Contract)

Remote

The Wikimedia Foundation is looking for an Event Associate to join our team, reporting to the Lead Event Strategist. As the Wikimania Event Associate, you will be hired to support Wikimania 2022. The Event Associate will be responsible for the facilitation and coordination of the various Grant and Scholarship Programs that will be distributed globally to facilitate participation at Wikimania. The Event Associate will be supporting the various translation and interpretation components prior and during the event.

Finance and Administration

Travel & Convening Associate (Contract)

Remote

The purpose of this position is to support the travel and convening services of the Wikimedia Foundation. This role is for the administrative professional who can build positive relationships and service delivery by being able to prioritize, hold confidentiality, exercise professional judgment, anticipate needs, deliver professional communications and support with accuracy and confidence. This person must be able to learn new software as well as bring problem solving and a ‘can-do’ attitude to the job. This role will work across time zones in a global environment. The right person will be intuitive, have creative problem solving skills, ability to adjust to differing styles, desire and ability to work with a small close-knit team and enjoy providing excellent service and support. 

Legal

Facilitator, Leadership Development Task Force (Contract, Part-Time)

Remote

The Wikimedia Foundation is seeking a Facilitator for our Leadership Development Task Force. The facilitator will guide the work of the Leadership Development Task Force, a community-driven working group. We expect this to be a part-time commitment of approximately 20 hours per week. The contract period continues until June 2023, with the potential to extend.

Product

Lead Product Manager, Content Experiences

Remote

Wikimedia is looking for an experienced product manager in our Product department for a team that creates products and features for audiences in emerging digital communities around the world. 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.

Senior Community & Customer Care Specialist

Remote

The Wikimedia Foundation is looking for a Senior Community & Customer Care Specialist to support the Android and the iOs Apps teams in the Product Department. Community Relations Specialists serve the Wikimedia Foundation, contributors and readers by supporting teams that collaborate with Wikimedia communities. This role will report to the Senior Manager of Community Relations Specialists and will support effective engagement between the Wikimedia Foundation staff, especially the Android and iOs teams, and Wikimedia readers and communities.

Talent and Culture

HRBP Lead

Remote

In collaboration with a team of dedicated HR professionals, your impact will be to support a growing global workforce that can deliver on our audacious mission and vision by cultivating a scalable culture of curiosity, increasing employee effectiveness and experience, and fostering deep professional growth. We are looking for a seasoned professional who will bring in operational management experience with solid HR business partnering skills, and experience working with people in an international setting. 

Lead Talent Management (Contract)

Remote

We are looking for a versatile, hands-on and energetic talent who combines great project management skills, with HR expertise and experience, and working with people in an international setting. If you combine this with an engaging communication style and the capacity to effectively navigate in a value and purpose-driven environment, then we are very interested in talking to you. The Lead Talent Management will be accountable for the design, implementation and promotion of talent management and career development programs. You will support HR Business Partners in finding the best internal talents and incorporating them into different talent pools.

People Analytics and HR Automation Specialist (Contract)

Remote

The Wikimedia Foundation is looking for a People Analytics & HR Automation Specialist to join our team, reporting to the  Director of People Operations.  As the People Analytics & HR Automation Specialist, you will be responsible for conducting a review and potential replacement of our current HRIS. Additionally, we are building up our people analytics capabilities. We are interested in meeting applicants who have strong reporting & analytics experience within Human Resources and have excellent understanding of automating HR processes within the HRIS (HR Information Systems) or Human Capital Management (HCM) systems.

Lead, Performance Management and Staff Engagement

Remote

The Global People Experience team sits within the Talent & Culture department. It serves all staff and encapsulates how and what we encounter and observe during our employment with the Wikimedia Foundation. It includes Human Resources Business Partners, T&C Communication and our Centers of Excellence in Learning and Performance Management. We are looking for a versatile, hands-on and energetic talent who combines great project management skills, with HR expertise and experience, and working with people in an international setting. If you combine this with an engaging communication style and the capacity to effectively navigate in a value and purpose-driven environment, then we are very interested in talking to you.

Technology

Software Engineer in Release Engineering

Remote

The Wikimedia Foundation is looking for a software engineer to join the Release Engineering Team. Software engineers on the Release Engineering team steward the developer experience for our technical community. We build development environments, maintain CI/CD infrastructure, and design tools and processes to support our technical community. We believe in integrity, quality, collaboration, and free and open source software. Release Engineering is a remote team with six people spanning nine time zones.

Senior Project Manager

Remote

The Wikimedia Foundation is looking for a Senior Project Manager to work with our Security team and be responsible for various Security projects to mature and inform security and privacy capabilities, to inform best practices for Security team and cross team projects. To help build workflows and team health initiatives and to support the intake and prioritization of inbound work to the security team. Socialize efforts of the Security team to the broader organization.

Senior Software Engineer – Search Platform

Remote

Our small team is passionate about making knowledge discoverable. We are responsible for the search engine used on Wikipedia, its sister projects, and for the Wikidata Query Service. We are looking for a software engineer to help us bring the Search Platform team to the next level. We use open-source tools as much as possible, and always open source our own work. Java, PHP, Python and Scala make up most of our code, but we value using the right tool for the job. Our world is vast and can be complicated, so we value communication, enthusiasm, and an eagerness to learn.

Senior Technical Writer

Remote

The Wikimedia Foundation is looking for a Senior Technical Writer to join our Developer Advocacy team. As a technical writer, you will be working as part of a team to create and maintain educational material for a large community of free and open-source software developers. Our technical community of staff and volunteers maintains and evolves MediaWiki and related software, and enhances the software experience for Wikipedia, Wikidata, and other free knowledge projects. 

Site Reliability Engineer III

Remote

Wikimedia Foundation is hiring a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to join our SRE team, where we take care of the infrastructure that runs wikipedia.org and other Wikimedia Foundation projects. We are responsible for the entire infrastructure stack, from multiple data centers, through networking and interconnects, to 1000s of servers and the application stack that runs on them.

Senior Site Reliability Engineer (ServiceOps)

Remote

Wikimedia Foundation is hiring a Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to join our ServiceOps SRE team, where we take care of the infrastructure that runs wikipedia.org and other Wikimedia Foundation projects.  

Engineering Manager, Site Reliability Engineering (Service Operations)

Remote

The Wikimedia Foundation is looking for an Engineering Manager to join our SRE Service Operations team, reporting to the Director of Site Reliability Engineering.  As Engineering Manager, you will be responsible for supporting the engineers developing our infrastructure platform and the applications and services that depend on it, used by hundreds of millions of people around the world.

Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Wikimedia Cloud Services

Remote

The Wikimedia Foundation is looking for a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to join our team, reporting to the Engineering Manager, Cloud Services. Cloud Services curates environments that host tools and services utilized across Wikimedia projects. A significant portion of edit traffic on Wikipedia for example, is done by community developed tools we host! Our team maintains Infrastructure as a Service, Platform as a Service, and Data as a Service products. The team works in partnership (our puppet repo is public! And yes, you can contribute to it!) with the larger Wikimedia volunteer community to manage these environments.  Candidates should be comfortable communicating in public and asynchronous ways with volunteers and developers from around the world.

Staff Site Reliability Engineer (Traffic)

Remote

We are looking for a Staff Site Reliability Engineer to support and develop the platform serving the world’s favorite encyclopedia to millions of people around the globe. Wikimedia’s Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) team is principally responsible for ensuring our global top-15 website, our public-facing services, and underlying infrastructure is healthy and developing further in support of Wikimedia’s mission.

Software Engineer in Test

Remote

As a SET, you are a software engineer with a strong test disposition. You should have coding skills that are on par with the software engineers (SWEs) that you will be working with. You will work closely with development teams to influence testability, taking into account the risks associated with the technology stack being used as well as the design and architecture of the software under test.  You will work to enable software engineers to deliver highly testable and stable code.  

Database Administrator III

Remote

The Wikimedia Foundation is looking for a Database Administrator to join our SRE team to build, optimize and support the platform serving the world’s favorite encyclopædia to millions of people around the globe. Wikipedia and its sister projects are a globally distributed architecture powered strictly by Free and Open Source software. The stack has MediaWiki at its core and MariaDB as its data store, surrounded by an ecosystem of microservices in PHP, NodeJS, Python, Go and Java.

Technical Writer, SRE/Infrastructure (Contract)

Remote

The Wikimedia Foundation is looking for a Technical Writer to support our Site Reliability Engineering teams (SRE) and users of their self-service infrastructure, reporting to the Manager of Developer Advocacy. As the Technical Writer, you will help improve the information structure of existing SRE team documentation and their team interfaces and be responsible for reviewing, improving, and creating educational material for users of key infrastructure services. You will work closely with our SRE teams and be part of our technical writer cohort in Developer Advocacy.

Values

We strive for excellence.

We welcome and cherish our differences.

We are in this together.

We engage in civil discourse.

We are inspired.

Learn more about our values.

Diversity, equity and inclusion commitment

Our diversity and inclusion path

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.

We have released two Diversity and Inclusion Reports (2018, 2019) to hold ourselves accountable for our actions towards creating a more diverse and inclusive workplace. This practice helps us to make visible not only our progress, but also the areas where we know we should and will improve.

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 [email protected] or +1 (415) 839-6885.

United States 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 22 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.

Optimal remote experience

Equipment including a laptop, monitor, plus a one-time stipend to cover any additional needs to make sure you have the best work from home experience.

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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