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Communications

Movement Communications Specialist (Africa)

Remote

The Wikimedia Foundation is looking for a Movement Communications Specialist (Africa), the ideal candidate is an experienced communicator, campaigner or community organizer with extensive experience connecting, convening and collaborating across Africa; someone who is passionate about bringing people together around a common cause. Reporting to the Manager, Global Movement Communications, you will be part of the Movement Communications team and the wider Communications Department. You will help us build bridges and a shared understanding across our movement with a particular focus on the Africa region.

Movement Communications Specialist

Remote

The Movement Communications team is uniquely skilled at bringing people together – whether through moments to celebrate or workshops to collaborate, and while working with other departments as strategic partners and problem solvers. We work to build bridges and understanding in the movement; to help people understand our mission and celebrate their role in its success. Reporting to the Senior Movement Communications Specialist – Europe, the Movement communications Specialist will be part of the Movement Communications team and the wider Communications Department.  You will help us build bridges and a shared understanding across our movement with a special focus on editing communities. We are looking for a person located in the European region with excellent written English and the ability to read, write and speak in at least one other European language, specifically German or Russian.

Contract Project Manager

Remote

The Wikimedia Foundation is looking for a contract Project Manager for the Communications department of the Wikimedia Foundation. Reporting to the Senior Manager of Program Management, you will work closely with the department’s project managers, multiple teams and departments on projects that support the Foundation’s annual plan and its related strategies. You will work alongside a small, strong, experienced team focused on effectiveness—a key annual plan goal. Your work will help to support and extend their capabilities. You will help to project manage cross-team initiatives, and support the team’s collective work, liaising with and across the Communications department’s teams, acting as a supportive project partner to writers, designers, marketers, PR/media, and movement communications specialists.This is a remote position will ideally be located in the Eastern Standard Time zone working with colleagues in the USA, the UK, Europe, Africa, Asia, and Southeast Asia.

Senior Marketing Manager (Social Platforms)

Remote

The Wikimedia Foundation seeks an innovative, creative and collaborative marketing leader to define and execute strategies for engaging young people (aged 18-25) on short form video platforms with Wikipedia. As part of this work, they will build and lead a fast moving and dynamic team from across departments to create a range of dynamic and experimental content and creative campaigns that can help us unleash our potential in reaching this important audience group on these channels. Our work on short form video is part of the Foundation’s Future Audiences initiative, which explores strategies for creating new audiences for Wikipedia, in an effort to reach everyone in the world with the sum of all human knowledge. We know that young people are spending more time on short form video platforms (TikTok, Instagram Reels, etc) than on traditional search engines or websites to get their information (see our report on global trends).

Finance and Administration

Senior Specialist, Global Meetings

Remote

This role manages the end-to-end execution of international meetings and multi-day working sessions for internal teams at the Wikimedia Foundation. With a globally distributed workforce of 700+ staff, these in-person and hybrid convenings—approximately 35 annually—are essential to the organization’s success. The role also involves attending 8-10 larger internal or community-facing global events. As a meeting and event planning professional, you will oversee needs assessment, vendor and venue sourcing, budgeting, contract negotiation, and on-site logistics. You will also ensure safety and security planning, provide real-time problem-solving, and deliver exceptional service to traveling staff and virtual participants.

Legal

Senior Trust & Safety Policy Manager

Remote

The Wikimedia Foundation is seeking a Senior Trust & Safety Policy Manager to advance our mission of empowering every human to freely share in the sum of all knowledge. As part of our Legal team, you will help build and maintain safe, welcoming environments for the diverse global community of volunteers who create and curate free knowledge on Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects. Our commitment to safety, efficiency, and fairness is essential to ensuring access to free, reliable information worldwide.

Associate General Counsel

Remote

Wikimedia envisions a world where the sum total of human knowledge is available to everyone.  The Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit home of Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons, and other free educational projects, serves as the hub of a global movement of hundreds of thousands of contributors collaborating to collect and share the sum of all human knowledge with the world. Protecting the privacy of Wikimedia readers, contributors, and donors is a key element of our work as an organization. Our Legal team counsels Foundation engineers as they create tools and features for Wikipedia, secure the websites, and collaborate with volunteer developers to design and build the future of the projects. We are looking for an Associate General Counsel to support the Deputy General Counsel in leading key functions in the Legal team, with specific focus on further refinement of our privacy and product counseling workflows.

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Product & Technology

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.

Software Engineer – Growth Team

The Wikimedia Foundation is looking for product software engineers to join the Growth team, reporting to product engineering management. As a product engineer, you will be responsible for building out the user facing components for our product user experiences. In this role, you will work in a remote environment, where we value teamwork and a consensus-oriented approach. You get to write open source code for collaborative experiences supporting over a half a billion pages accessed per day, and you get to do it at a place that believes we’re all more successful when everyone has a good work-life balance.

Software Engineer – Moderator Tools

The Wikimedia Foundation is looking for a product software engineer to join the Moderator Tools team, reporting to product engineering management. As a product engineer, you will be responsible for building out components for our product user experiences. In this role, you will work in a remote environment, where we value teamwork and a consensus-oriented approach. You get to write open-source code for collaborative experiences supporting over half a billion pages accessed per day, and you get to do it at a place that believes we’re all more successful when everyone has a good work-life balance.

Senior Product Manager, Reader Experience

Remote

The Wikimedia Foundation is looking for an enterprising senior product manager to serve the needs of today’s Wikipedia readers by joining the new Reader Experience 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. This is an opportunity to have a tremendous impact with one of the most beloved parts of the internet.

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. 

Lead Product Manager, Wikidata Platform

Remote

The Wikimedia Foundation is looking for a collaborative Lead Product Manager to lead the vision, strategy, and roadmap of the query platform for Wikidata, one of the world’s largest open linked databases. Wikidata facilitates much of the structure of Wikipedia content and contributor activities, making an impact on billions of users across 300+ languages. It is also a critical resource for libraries, universities, and other technology platforms. Our vision is a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all human knowledge. This includes access to data for editing workflow support, research, feature development, and advancing artificial intelligence responsibly.

Tech Lead, Wikidata Platform

Remote

The Wikimedia Foundation is looking for a collaborative technical lead to guide the sustainment, development, and evolution of the query platform for Wikidata, one of the world’s largest open linked databases. Wikidata facilitates much of the structure of Wikipedia content and contributor activities, making an impact on billions of users across 300+ languages. It also is a critical resource for libraries, universities, and other technology platforms. Our vision is a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all human knowledge. This includes access to data for editing workflow support, research, feature development, and advancing artificial intelligence responsibly.

Lead Product Manager, Abstract Wikipedia

Remote

The Wikimedia Foundation is looking for a collaborative Lead Product Manager to support our work on Abstract Wikipedia, a project that aims to increase access to encyclopedic knowledge by enabling more people to share more knowledge in more languages.

Senior Database Administrator

Remote

The Wikimedia Foundation is seeking a Senior DBA. Our objective is to make the sum of all human knowledge available to everyone, and we persist most of this knowledge in MariaDB. Our project sites are some of the most highly visited on the internet, with more page views per engineer than any other site.

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. This role offers a unique opportunity to combine technical depth with mission-driven impact. As a Senior Engineer, you will not only write robust code but also lead by example, prioritize high-impact work, support better decision-making through metrics and observability and foster a culture of accountability, transparency, and continuous improvement.

Lead UX Designer – iOS

Remote

The Product Design team at Wikimedia is seeking a Lead UX Designer with an expert understanding of user experience and product development processes to work within our Apps team, supporting the Wikipedia iOS app and selected features on the Android app. You will lead all aspects of the user experience, partnering with the other product leads to conceive and execute upon the product strategy for your product team.

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.