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The Wikimedia Basis is in search of a collaborative Lead Product Supervisor to assist our work on Summary Wikipedia, a undertaking that goals to extend entry to encyclopedic information by enabling extra individuals to share extra information in additional languages.
We’re dedicated to creating information obtainable to everybody globally. This is a chance to do good whereas constructing new expertise on the intersection of machine studying, pure language technology, and computational linguistics.
Summary Wikipedia is a visionary undertaking that asks, what if we might write Wikipedia articles as soon as, in an summary kind, after which translate it into any language by constructing a community-edited pure language system to generate readable textual content? The technical basis for this future is Wikifunctions, a multilingual, open-source catalog of code features that anybody can use, remix, check, and be taught from.
The Lead Product Supervisor is accountable for turning the imaginative and prescient of Summary Wikipedia right into a tangible influence. This can be a one-of-a-kind alternative to construct the way forward for the Web and radically increase entry to free information. You can be engaged on a global crew based mostly in time zones UTC-4 to UTC+1.
You’re liable for:
- Growing a roadmap that balances short-term execution with long-term strategic objectives.
- Constructing alignment between stakeholders and the group to outline and execute the product imaginative and prescient and technique.
- Proudly owning the end-to-end product lifecycle, from ideation to launch and iteration.
- Utilizing qualitative and quantitative strategies to tell selections, uncover alternatives, and measure influence.
- Deeply understanding our group wants, releasing options iteratively to ship worth and validate hypotheses.
- Establishing and refining product growth processes and finest practices.
- Bringing structured considering to product discovery, prioritization, and decision-making.
- Main the prioritization of recent services and products, in addition to our product backlog.
- Speaking trade-offs to drive product selections and transfer the crew ahead.
- Speaking a transparent product imaginative and prescient to inside and exterior audiences.
Abilities and Expertise:
- Minimal 7 years of product administration expertise in software program growth.
- A structured but versatile strategy to product growth, able to adapting methodologies to suit the wants of our crew and group.
- Expertise creating and refining product administration frameworks, demonstrating a deep understanding of product technique, execution, and decision-making.
- Previous success in breaking down ambiguous tasks into clear duties, with a bias towards motion.
- Excellent written and verbal communication abilities, with a capability to obviously and proactively talk plans and outcomes to stakeholders and collaborators.
- Wonderful follow-up, consideration to element, time administration, and undertaking administration abilities.
- Capacity to work together successfully and develop productive working relationships with administration, friends, and communities.
- An curiosity in and talent to work remotely with a distributed crew throughout time zones.
- Snug with evolving necessities and priorities in a dynamic surroundings.
Moreover, we’d adore it if in case you have:
- Expertise with pure language processing, computational linguistics or information administration applied sciences
- Expertise with multilingual merchandise or platforms, good understanding of internationalization and localization
- Expertise enhancing Wikimedia tasks
Concerning the Wikimedia Basis
The Wikimedia Basis is the nonprofit group that operates Wikipedia and the opposite Wikimedia free information tasks. Our imaginative and prescient is a world wherein each single human can freely share within the sum of all information. We consider that everybody has the potential to contribute one thing to our shared information, and that everybody ought to have the ability to entry that information freely. We host Wikipedia and the Wikimedia tasks, construct software program experiences for studying, contributing, and sharing Wikimedia content material, assist the volunteer communities and companions who make Wikimedia attainable, and advocate for insurance policies that allow Wikimedia and free information to thrive.
The Wikimedia Basis is a charitable, not-for-profit group that depends on donations. We obtain donations from thousands and thousands of people around the globe, with a median donation of about $15. We additionally obtain donations via institutional grants and presents. The Wikimedia Basis is a United States 501(c)(3) tax-exempt group with workplaces in San Francisco, California, USA.
As an equal alternative employer, the Wikimedia Basis values having a various workforce and constantly strives to take care of an inclusive and equitable office. We encourage individuals with a various vary of backgrounds to use. We don’t discriminate in opposition to any particular person based mostly upon their race, traits traditionally related to race, faith, colour, nationwide origin, intercourse, being pregnant or associated medical circumstances, parental standing, sexual orientation, gender id, gender expression, age, standing as a protected veteran, standing as a person with a incapacity, genetic info, or every other legally protected traits.
The Wikimedia Basis is a remote-first group with workers members together with contractors based mostly 40+ nations*. Salaries on the Wikimedia Basis are set in a method that’s aggressive, equitable, and according to our values and tradition. The anticipated annual pay vary of this place for candidates based mostly inside the USA is US$ 129,068 to US$ 201,074 with a number of individualized elements, together with value of dwelling within the location, being the determinants of the provided pay. For candidates situated outdoors of the US, the pay vary can be adjusted to the nation of rent. We neither ask for nor consider the wage historical past of candidates. The compensation for a profitable applicant can be based mostly on their abilities, expertise and site.
*Please word that we’re presently capable of rent within the following nations: Australia, Austria, Bangladesh, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Costa Rica, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Egypt, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Ghana, Greece, India, Indonesia, Eire, Israel, Italy, Kenya, Mexico, Netherlands, Nigeria, Peru, Poland, Singapore, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Uganda, United Kingdom, United States of America and Uruguay. Our non-US staff are employed via a neighborhood third occasion Employer of Document (EOR).
We periodically evaluate this record to streamline to make sure alignment with our hiring necessities.
All candidates can attain out to their recruiter to grasp extra in regards to the particular pay vary for his or her location in the course of the interview course of.
If you’re a certified applicant requiring help or an lodging to finish any step of the appliance course of as a result of a incapacity, you might contact us at [email protected] or +1 (415) 839-6885.
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