Senior Product Manager, Mobile Apps (Contract)

Location: Remote, 6-month contract

Hours: 40 hrs/week, available for synchronous collaboration between 14:00-19:00 UTC

Summary

Wikimedia is looking for an experienced product manager (contract) for the Mobile Apps team in our Product department. 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.

Wikipedia is one of the most popular media properties in the world, visited by over 1 billion people a month across over 300 different languages. All this knowledge is created and managed by more than 200,000 volunteer editors. The Wikipedia mobile apps are a fast and fun way to read Wikipedia. The Wikipedia apps for Android and iOS are ad-free and available in more than 300 languages. They are the best place to be a fan of Wikipedia and to learning.

As a product manager with the Mobile Apps team (contract), you will work with engineers, designers, community members, other product managers, and our volunteer community to deliver on the reader strategy, with a focus on improving the experience of our most committed app users. This is a contract position to cover a parental leave January through the end of July. Candidates must be available for critical meetings and synchronous work between 14:00-19:00 UTC. This role will report to the Readers Group Product Manager.

About this role

This is a hands-on, individual contributor role. You will personally write the requirements, file tasks, create measurement plans, and provide community updates for your workstreams, and you will own each step from ideation through release, analysis and reporting.

Because this role covers a leave, the product manager who normally leads the App Growth team will not be available for day-to-day guidance for most of the contract. We’re looking for someone self-directed and entrepreneurial: someone who ramps up quickly, takes an ambiguous problem, scopes it into something the team can ship in a matter of weeks, and makes sound decisions without waiting to be told. You will have a strong cross-functional team, a lot of documentation for context, and a manager to escalate to, but you should expect to pull together data, research and documentation to set your own direction within the team’s OKRs and established roadmap.

Success in this role is measured by what ships and what we learn from it.

You are responsible for

Leading the product development process from ideation and discovery in a defined project area, through scoping, requirements, release and analysis, for features that convert web readers to retained app readers, and sustained app donors, within the guardrails of our OKRs, roadmap and strategic direction.

Scoping work realistically: breaking ambitious ideas into MVPs and phased releases that fit team capacity and the contract timeline, and making trade-offs explicit.

Writing clear, complete kick off decks, requirements and user stories in Phabricator that engineers, designers and other various stakeholders can build from without repeated clarification.

Setting success metrics: defining hypotheses and measurement plans with the data analyst before work enters development, then using quantitative and qualitative methods to evaluate impact.

Experimenting, releasing, and iterating intentionally to provide incremental value rapidly and validate hypotheses.