Jobs at Wikimedia Foundation

Develops and manages technology partnerships that expand Wikimedia product distribution and content reuse. Responsibilities include identifying partners, negotiating zero-dollar LOIs and MOUs, supporting attribution pilots, maintaining CRM pipelines, creating pitch materials and strategies, aligning partner needs with product roadmaps, coordinating cross-functional teams, attending industry events, and monitoring technology trends. The role requires strong technology and media connections, product fluency, negotiation skills, analytical ability, and independent program coordination.

Leads cross-functional social media and communications projects, managing scopes, timelines, dependencies, workflows, resources, risks, stakeholder alignment, and campaign delivery. Coordinates distributed teams across social, content, creative, design, video, community, PR, marketing, analytics, and external partners. Uses Asana and Google Workspace to track deliverables, document processes, report project health, facilitate meetings and retrospectives, resolve roadblocks, and implement process improvements.

Design and deliver improvements to Wikipedia’s wikitext processing infrastructure, write PHP and JavaScript, maintain internet APIs, instrument components, and use caching and persistence technologies. Collaborate across engineering, product, design, client, and volunteer communities; own complex technical projects, make architectural decisions, maintain reliable high-performance software, write tests, address security feedback, and mentor engineers.

Designs and develops accessible, inclusive digital learning experiences for Wikimedia contributors worldwide. Partners with product teams, researchers, communities, and subject matter experts to identify learning needs, prototype solutions, and improve courses, multimedia, AI-enabled support, workshops, and embedded guidance. Uses learning science, user-centered design, analytics, feedback, and experimentation to strengthen participation and evolve the Foundation’s learning strategy.

Lead Wikimedia Foundation’s product security strategy, prioritize security and privacy engineering initiatives, develop platform interventions against threats, strengthen organizational security culture, and communicate with Wikimedia communities. The role partners with cross-functional and departmental leaders on information security, represents the Foundation to volunteers, and applies AI-based tools to security analysis, code review, and software engineering. Prior product management experience is not required, but strong technical, security, communication, and online-community experience are important.

Lead executive communications for the Wikimedia Foundation CEO, executives, and Board. Develop strategic messaging, speeches, talking points, blogs, social media, internal communications, and thought leadership. Advise senior leaders, manage media and speaking opportunities, prepare executives for crisis communications, build stakeholder engagement strategies, and collaborate across global communications teams. The role is remote-first, aligned primarily with Eastern Time, and requires occasional international travel.

The Head of Marketing will build and lead Wikimedia Foundation’s product and integrated marketing function. Responsibilities include developing go-to-market processes, leading multidisciplinary teams, coordinating audience engagement, overseeing brand, performance, paid, owned, SEO/GEO, app store, and lifecycle marketing, managing marketing technology and analytics, directing agencies and budgets, and aligning global campaigns across departments and audiences.

As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer, you will design, develop, and maintain reliable infrastructure for Wikimedia's API services, ensuring performance and availability while driving reliability engineering practices and improving developer experience.

Build and operate backend and platform services for the Wikidata Query Service and related data pipelines. Improve reliability, scalability, observability, and automation; respond to incidents; support migrations and deployments; integrate with other Wikimedia systems; participate in design, code review, documentation, and knowledge sharing.

Design, build, and maintain backend systems and APIs for the Wikidata Query Service. Improve reliability, observability, automation, and scalability; monitor production, respond to incidents, support migrations, and collaborate across SRE, data, and product teams.

The Senior Site Reliability Engineer is responsible for maintaining Wikimedia's infrastructure, improving reliability, automating processes, and collaborating with teams. The role involves troubleshooting, managing deployments, and leading incident responses while working remotely.

Support online fundraising campaigns by editing web files (HTML/CSS), implementing banner tests in CentralNotice, managing QA and cross-browser checks, coordinating with Revenue Specialists, linguists, and designers, and maintaining Asana workflows to ensure campaign delivery across multiple countries and languages.