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Fundraising Support Specialist (Contract)

Remote

The Wikimedia Foundation seeks a Fundraising Support Specialist to join our Online Fundraising team, reporting to the Senior Manager of Fundraising Products. In this role, you will perform vital production tasks to enable our team of Revenue Specialists to launch and optimize fundraising campaigns in more than 20 languages and 30 countries each year.

Italian Translator / Linguist (Contract)

Remote

The Wikimedia Fundraising team runs annual fundraising campaigns in Italy. The team requires a linguist experienced in translation and translation review/proofreading to translate from English to Italian, and to proofread banner, email, and online fundraising content.

Sales Development Representative, Wikimedia Enterprise

Remote

We’re looking for a Sales Development Representative who can translate Wikimedia Enterprise’s unique value proposition into a qualified pipeline. You’ll be the first point of contact for enterprise prospects, including technology companies, AI labs, media organizations, and large scale platforms. You’ll play a critical role in helping us grow commercial revenue that directly funds the Wikimedia mission.

Senior Engineering Manager, Wikimedia Enterprise

Remote

As the Senior Engineering Manager, you will be a leader managing the technical roadmap and talented team of engineers behind our Wikimedia Enterprise product. In this role, you will have the opportunity to contribute significantly to architecting, building, and maintaining Wikipedia’s data feeds for high volume reusers. You will work alongside the product and sales teams to define the long term strategy for Wikimedia Enterprise and support the financial sustainability of the Wikimedia movement.

Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Wikimedia Enterprise

Remote

The Wikimedia Foundation is looking for a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to join our team, reporting to the Sr. Engineering Manager. As the Site Reliability Engineer, you will play a key role in designing, developing, and maintaining reliable, scalable, and highly available infrastructure for our API services. You will contribute heavily to the high impact challenges behind innovating, building, and maintaining Wikipedia’s data feeds for high volume reusers. In this role, you will foster cross department collaboration with the wikimedia foundation SRE teams. You will own reliability targets (SLOs) for critical APIs, balancing performance, cost, and availability through data-driven decisions.

Email Developer (Fundraising) (Contract)

Remote

The Wikimedia Foundation is looking for an Email Developer (Fundraising) to join the Online Fundraising team, reporting to Email Manager, Fundraising products. As the Email Developer (Fundraising), you will play a critical role in the online fundraising team’s year-round, multilingual fundraising and engagement campaigns, with a particular focus on email production.

Lead Recurring Giving Specialist (Fundraising)

Remote

We The Wikimedia Foundation is expanding its team and seeking an experienced fundraiser to own and grow our recurring giving program. This role is responsible for driving retention, upgrade, reactivation, and long-term value of monthly and annual donors, and for contributing to sustainer acquisition strategy in close coordination with the dedicated team. The successful candidate will bring a creative, data-driven mindset and a strong test-and-learn approach to accelerate growth and deepen supporter engagement across email, direct mail, SMS, on-platform messaging, and self-service donation tools.

Software Engineer III, Fundraising Tech

Remote

We are searching for an experienced full-stack software engineer to join the Wikimedia Fundraising Technology team.  Each year, small donations from hundreds of thousands of individuals constitute the majority of the budget for the Wikimedia Foundation. This money is used primarily for projects, such as Wikipedia, and operational costs. We are looking for someone who wants to help Wikimedia’s non-profit fundraising efforts to become more accessible worldwide, while maintaining integrity and scalability across changing markets and over numerous engagement methods.

Communications

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

Senior Financial Analyst

Remote

Wikipedia runs on curiosity — and behind the scenes, on smart financial decisions. As Senior Financial Analyst, you’ll help make those decisions. Serving as the Finance Business Partner for our Communications, Marketing, and other functional teams, you’ll build a deep understanding of how we invest in global brand and PR campaigns, Movement-wide communications and events, and the internal programs that keep the Foundation running well. You’ll turn financial data into insight that senior executives, managers, and program owners actually use — helping a mission-driven nonprofit spend wisely in service of something bigger than any single organization. We’re looking for someone who’s as energized by a hard analytical problem as they are by the mission behind it, and who does their best work in a collaborative, fast-moving environment.

Legal

Principal, Global Event Security and Risk Management

Remote

The Wikimedia Foundation is looking for a Principal, Global Event Security and Risk Management, to join our team. Our aim is to ensure everyone, everywhere can securely participate in free knowledge. As an organization, we are committed to proactively identifying and mitigating risks that impact both the Foundation and the Wikimedia movement. This includes enabling secure physical convenings and spaces for the robust global communities of volunteers we serve and often support through grants, and effectively addressing other physical security and enterprise risks our ecosystem faces.

 

People Department

Senior People Business Partner

Remote

The Senior People Business Partner is a skilled people advisor, focused on global talent management and integrating best practices for organizational development and change management into existing cultures and values systems. The best candidate for this role will be someone who loves to collaborate with others to solve problems large and small, and has an intrinsic drive for results and improving the status quo. We are looking for someone who will celebrate wins while learning from mistakes, and is comfortable sharing their knowledge and experience with a strong and close-knit team. The position requires both strategic vision and understanding, as well as comfort with being in the details of an organization.

  

Product & Technology

Lead UX Researcher

Remote

The Wikimedia Foundation is looking for a Lead UX Researcher to join the UX Research team, where you’ll lead in providing the insights decision-makers need to make informed, human-centered decisions. The UX Research Team does qualitative and quantitative research to understand the experiences and needs of the humans who use and contribute to Wikipedia and the Wikimedia projects. This role is to lead mixed-methods research for the “Increase our Reach” focus area of the WMF Annual Plan. You will partner cross-functionally with product managers, designers, data scientists, engineers, and fellow researchers for this area to identify high-impact research opportunities, and then execute research efforts to inform decisions and shape future strategy.

Lead Program Manager, Community Wishlist

Remote

We are looking for a Lead Program Manager to join our team and manage our Community Wishlist program portfolio. This role reports to the Chief of Staff to the Chief Product and Technology Officer.  As the Lead Program Manager, you will lead the strategic alignment, design, delivery, and evaluation of critical WMF programs related to clarifying, communicating, and fulfilling features and fixes requested by the Wikimedia community. You will work across multiple teams, departments, and Wikimedia stakeholder groups to drive critical cross-functional and cross-departmental programs, turn community requests into overall impact, and guide teams toward impactful outcomes.  

Software Engineer III, Product Safety & Integrity

Remote

The Wikimedia Foundation is looking for a software engineer to join the Product Safety and Integrity Team. Engineers at the Wikimedia Foundation get to work on technology that truly makes a global impact — powering Wikipedia and its sister projects, which serve billions of pageviews every month across hundreds of languages. It is a rare opportunity to contribute to one of the largest knowledge-sharing platforms in the world, and to help protect free access to information for everyone, everywhere.

Senior Software Engineer, Wikidata Platform

Remote

The Wikimedia Foundation is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join the team supporting the Wikidata Platform — the structured data backbone of Wikimedia projects and a key part of the global open knowledge ecosystem. You’ll help scale and sustain the Wikidata Query Service (WDQS) and related platform services that power tools, features, communities, and research efforts across Wikimedia projects and beyond.

Software Engineer, Wikidata Platform

Remote

The Wikimedia Foundation is seeking a Software Engineer to join the team supporting the Wikidata Platform — the structured data backbone of Wikimedia projects and a key part of the global open knowledge ecosystem. You’ll help scale and sustain the Wikidata Query Service (WDQS) and related platform services that power tools, features, communities, and research efforts across Wikimedia projects and beyond.

Lead Product Partnerships Manager (Fixed Term Contract)

Remote

The Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) seeks an experienced Lead Product Partnerships Manager to increase the global reach of Wikipedia’s products and knowledge in a rapidly changing web landscape. The successful candidate will serve as a front-facing representative for external partnerships where the primary value is directly tied to product integration and new distribution opportunities for the Product and Technology (P&T) department, working within P&T with our org-wide partnerships cohort.

Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Remote

The Wikimedia Foundation is looking for a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to support and develop the platform serving the world’s favorite encyclopedia, Wikipedia, to millions of people around the globe. Wikimedia’s Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) team is principally responsible for ensuring our global top-10 website and its underlying infrastructure is healthy and developing further in support of Wikimedia’s mission: to help everyone share in the sum of all knowledge.

Manager, Data Science (Product Analytics)

Remote

The Wikimedia Foundation is looking for a Data Science Manager to lead the Product Analytics team, reporting to the Senior Director, Research and Decision Science. In this role, you will lead a team of data scientists whose insights guide strategies and tactics aimed at achieving our vision: a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Your team partners with product managers, designers, engineers, and colleagues across the Wikimedia movement to produce and share actionable and accessible data and insights to inform decision-making within the Foundation and in Wikimedia communities.

 

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 recruiting@wikimedia.org 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.

Applicant Privacy Policy

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