Advancement  

Senior Program Officer Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA)

Remote

The Community Resources team is the primary funding function of the Wikimedia Foundation ensuring that we support the Affiliates and volunteer contributors of the Wikimedia Movement by offering institutional and individual funding to help achieve the Movement’s goals. To support the movement’s commitment to Knowledge Equity, the team prioritizes proactive outreach to communities that structures of power and privilege have left out. The Senior Program Officer will implement the regional funding programs serving Wikimedian communities in Sub-Saharan Africa. 

Lead Learning Experience Designer

Remote

The Wikimedia Foundation is seeking a Lead Learning Experience Designer to create innovative, engaging, and accessible learning experiences that strengthen the capacity of volunteers and communities across the Wikimedia movement. You’ll help contributors develop the confidence, skills, and knowledge they need to participate effectively, navigate Wikimedia’s communities and practices, and grow as contributors.  

Communications

Community Management Associate

Remote

The Wikimedia Foundation is seeking a Community Management Associate to engage online communities, help refine our brand voice, and build a vibrant, Gen Z-focused social media presence for Wikipedia and the Wikimedia Foundation. Sitting on the Social Team within External Communications, you will bring energy and creativity to how we show up across platforms. From writing engaging comment copy and jumping on real-time cultural moments to surfacing stories from our global volunteer community, you will help connect Wikipedia with next-generation internet audiences.

Wikimania Scholarships and Event Coordinator (Contract)

Remote

This role will support the Lead project manager and others in the Core organising team on event planning and logistics, helping to provide local knowledge and expertise. The role will also work with the Communications team on communications to our scholars, self funded attendees and general audiences through a range of communication channels. 

Communications Lead, Wikimedia Enterprise (Contract)

Remote

The Wikimedia Foundation is looking for an experienced communications lead to serve as the primary communications partner to the Wikimedia Enterprise team — shaping external messaging, media relations, and thought leadership to drive organic demand for Wikimedia Enterprise services, while ensuring narrative and strategic alignment with the Foundation’s broader communications priorities. This role sits in the Media Relations team, within the Foundation’s Communications Department, with a dotted line to the President of Wikimedia Enterprise. 
 

Principal, Executive Communications

Remote

The Wikimedia Foundation seeks a senior communications professional to lead our executive communications across a growing, global portfolio. This person’s main responsibility is to serve as a primary communications partner to the Foundation’s CEO, providing strategic counsel and direct support across internal and external communications. This includes building a comprehensive engagement strategy spanning  multiple and complex stakeholder groups. In close collaboration with colleagues on the Foundation’s media relations and internal communications teams, and with the Foundation’s Chief of Staff, this person will develop, shape, and implement a strategy for the CEO to communicate and advance the vision of the Wikimedia Foundation. In addition, they will support external communications for other members of the Foundation’s executive team and the Board of Trustees.

Head of Marketing

Remote

The Wikimedia Foundation is looking for an experienced Head of Marketing to help establish and oversee a new function responsible for product and integrated marketing. Positioned within the External Communications team, the Head of Marketing will collaborate with Foundation stakeholders to shape our go-to-market approach. While the primary audience focus for the role is readers, they will also help develop a unified view of audience engagement across the Foundation’s external audiences.

Finance and Administration

Lead Financial Analyst, Strategic Business Partner – Product & Technology

Remote

Join the Foundation in our ambitious project to empower people to create and share the sum of all human knowledge. We are looking for a Lead Financial Analyst to serve as the strategic business partner to our Product & Technology department, one of the most dynamic and fastest-growing parts of the organization, with a combined budget of more than $100M. You will also support other key areas of our work and, as the most senior analyst on the Financial Business Partner team, be responsible for driving improvements in financial planning, analytics, and our business partnership practices.

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Product & Technology

Senior UX Designer

Remote

The Product Design team is looking for a Senior UX Designer with a solid understanding of user experience and product development processes to work within one of our multi-disciplinary product teams. You will be influential in creating and developing the user experience, feeding directly into the product strategy for your product team.

Software Engineering Internship Program (2027)

Remote

We are looking for graduates, non-graduates, or those seeking a career change who are interested in developing software engineering skills through an immersive “learn on the job” internship program. As an intern, you will be embedded into an engineering team within our Product and Technology departments and assigned a primary project with clear deliverables. Alongside your manager and dedicated mentor, you will learn the inner workings of our open source code that helps to create “a world in which everyone can freely share in the sum of all knowledge”.  You will work with software that serves over half a billion page views per day through Wikipedia (and other Wikimedia projects). The outcome of your work will impact how all people everywhere discover, share, and contribute to free knowledge.

Senior Software Engineer, Android (Contract)

Remote

The Wikimedia Foundation is looking for a Senior Software Engineer, Android to support the App Experience and App Growth teams within the Core Experiences engineering group. Our teams have a clear and ambitious goal: make our apps the destination for knowledge lovers and grow our active readership. 

Senior Software Engineer, iOS (Contract)

Remote

The Wikimedia Foundation is looking for a Senior Software Engineer, iOS to join the App Growth team within the Core Experiences engineering group on a 3-month full time contract. The App Growth team has a clear and ambitious goal: make the apps the destination for knowledge lovers and grow our active readership. The team owns the cross-platform feature framework for the app, making decisions about where a feature lives when the app is the destination and where its primary value is unlocked.

Senior Data Scientist, Safety & Security

Remote

We are hiring a Senior Data Scientist to help guide Wikipedia’s anti-abuse and security strategy as a member of our Product Analytics team. In this role, you will inform our product development strategy by collaborating with product managers, engineers, and others to help our features and interventions make the impact they should. 

Software Quality Manager

Remote

The Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) is looking for an experienced Software Quality Manager to lead two teams who are providing testing & documentation services to multiple WMF engineering teams while fostering a culture where Software Quality & Documentation is everyone’s responsibility. This role supports geographically distributed teams of 5-10 Test Engineers & 3 Technical Writers who are providing services that improve the quality of our software. They engage with multiple WMF teams in high-impact initiatives to provide technical documentation, automated test suites, and manual testing for the software that runs Wikipedia and its sister projects.

 

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 [email protected] 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:
US States: Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, District of Columbia*, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Puerto Rico*, Rhode Island, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin and Wyoming (*US Territory or Federal District)

Countries: Brazil, Canada, Colombia, France, Germany, Ghana, India, Indonesia, Italy, Kenya*, Mexico, Morocco, Netherlands, Poland, Singapore*, South Africa, Spain, Switzerland and the United Kingdom. Our non-US employees are hired through a local third party Employer of Record (EOR) and must have current work authorization in their location. (*citizens/permanent residents only)

We periodically review this list to streamline to ensure alignment with our hiring requirements.

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.

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