Description:
As a Senior Product Manager 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 guide the Data Platform Engineering team's effort to unify data systems across the Wikimedia Foundation to deliver scalable solutions that support the open knowledge movement.
What you will do
- Help drive product strategy for our evolving Data Platform, ensuring a cohesive data lifecycle for internal teams while making open data easily accessible to the public
- Break down complex workflows and data challenges into actionable platform capabilities
- Develop a deep understanding of:
- Platform user needs across internal teams and public consumers
- Analytics data generated by billions of monthly users
- MediaWiki's data production architecture and data model
- Collaborate with globally distributed teams, including Principal Engineers and product teams
- Work flexible hours with core overlap time from 2-6 pm UTC.
Key Responsibilities
- Execute product vision aligned with organizational goals and strategy
- Translate user needs into clear requirements and actionable stories
- Design scalable platform changes while balancing optimization, feature development, and resource constraints
- Lead cross-functional collaboration with engineering teams and stakeholders
- Drive data-informed decision-making through qualitative and quantitative methods
- Manage stakeholder expectations and platform product requests effectively
- Engage with our technical community through regular communications and progress updates
Required Qualifications
- 3-5+ years leading product teams
- Strong experience in data platform product management focusing on one or more:
- Data pipelines
- Analytics
- Experimentation
- Data snapshots
- ML/AI
- Data infrastructure
- Proven ability to
- Break down complex problems into actionable roadmaps focused on outcomes
- Manage self-hosted 3rd party software integrations
- Communicate technical concepts to diverse audiences
- Balance competing priorities from multiple stakeholders
- Drive platform capability improvements