Advancement
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Endowment Director
San Francisco, CA, Washington D.C. or Remote
The Endowment Director will report to the Senior Director of Development. Succeeding in this environment will require taking a hands-on approach to connecting with a broad array of donors using traditional development methods, strong people management skills, and leading the ongoing development of the infrastructure required to support the endowment.
Communications
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Finance and Administration
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Senior Accountant
San Francisco, CA
The Wikimedia Foundation is looking for a Senior Accountant who will be a member of the accounting team and responsible for assisting with the execution of daily accounting processes, including accounts payable, accounts receivable, month-end close, and year-end tax preparation and audit processes in a fast paced, agile environment. Under the supervision of the Accounting Manager, the Senior Accountant will partner with the Accounting team and other teams within the foundation to ensure that there are sufficient systems and procedures in place to provide effective support to existing and new program implementation.
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IT Systems Specialist
San Francisco, CA
Wikimedia Foundation is seeking an IT Systems Specialist to work within the team helping to support, maintain, troubleshoot and build out our internal IT systems. You are passionate about providing excellent support and services to our staff, while having the technical skills to improve systems and processes. Our team of IT professionals work collaboratively and cross functionally to escalate and resolve issues, while improving process. You will play a key role in assisting with the assessment, facilitation and implementation of industry standard tools (automation and unifying systems inspires you).
Legal
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Operations
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Director of Global Data & Insights
San Francisco, CA or Remote
The Director of Global Data & Insights will develop and lead the strategy for delivering data and insights about the Wikimedia Movement to inform practices at the Wikimedia Foundation. This position will lead the Global Data & Insights (GDI) team, currently composed of five applied researchers and analysts, who are together responsible for providing data and insights to support executive decision-making regarding Foundation program funding, growth, and future planning.
Product
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Technical Product Manager
San Francisco, CA or Remote US
The Wikimedia Foundation is looking for an experienced and collaborative Technical Product Manager to drive improvements to Wikipedia that enable our communities to achieve our Vision: a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge.
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Product Manager, Search
San Francisco, CA or Remote
Wikimedia is looking for an experienced and collaborative Product Manager for our Search team, to help build features that enable our communities to achieve our vision: a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge.
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Software Engineer, Language & Translation
Remote
Wikimedia projects are built to be collaborative, multilingual and usable by people from around the world. The Language team works on projects that enable users to collaborate, consume, and contribute valuable content in more than 300 languages. We are currently working on several projects that are being gradually rolled out for users. Our team is fully remote and team members work from various places around the world.
Talent and Culture
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Technology
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VP, Data Science & Engineering
San Francisco, CA or Remote
The Wikimedia Foundation is seeking an experienced executive to serve as VP, Data Science & Engineering for our Technology department. Reporting to the Chief Technology Officer, the VP, Data Science & Engineering is a key member of the Foundation’s leadership team and an active participant in the strategic decision making framing the work of the technology department, the Wikimedia Foundation and the Wikimedia movement.
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Engineering Manager, Site Reliability
San Francisco, CA or Remote
Wikimedia’s Site Reliability Engineering team is principally responsible for ensuring our global top-10 web site, our public facing services and underlying infrastructure are healthy and developing further in support of Wikimedia’s mission. The SRE team comprises over 30 creative and talented staff members that are globally distributed and organized into 6 teams each with their own scope and focus area. We are strengthening the team and looking for several Engineering Managers to help our staff and teams achieve our goals.
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Database Architect
San Francisco, CA or Remote
As a Database Architect at the Wikimedia Foundation, you will be responsible for the architecture, design, availability and performance of our database infrastructure in a globally distributed infrastructure. You will work together with our developers and SREs on optimizing queries, schema design and coming up with a data strategy.
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Site Reliability Engineer
San Francisco, CA or Remote
The Wikimedia Foundation is hiring a Site Reliability Engineer to support and maintain the data and statistics infrastructure that powers a big part of decision making in the Foundation and in the Wiki community. This includes everything from eliminating boring things from your daily workflow by automating them, to upgrading a multi-petabyte Hadoop cluster to the next upstream version without impacting uptime and users.
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Software Engineer, Machine Learning
San Francisco, CA or Remote
The Scoring Platform team builds and maintains machine learning technologies to empower millions of users – readers, contributors, and donors – who contribute to Wikipedia and its sister projects on a daily basis. We address process inefficiencies with machine learning technologies, we design and test new technology, we produce empirical insights, and we publish and present research on the intersection of technology and culture. We are strongly committed to principles of transparency, privacy and collaboration. We use free and open source technology and we collaborate with researchers in the industry and academia.
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Senior Application Security Engineer
Remote
The Wikimedia Foundation is looking for an Application Security Engineer to join the Security team working to help protect Wikipedia and our other projects. You'll be working with other developers and security engineers to create new security features, review the security of other people's code, and help find and fix security bugs before they're exploited.
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Engineering Manager, Wikimedia Cloud Services
San Francisco, CA or Remote
Come work within the Technology department as part of the Technical Engagement group at the Wikimedia Foundation! We are looking for an experienced Engineering Manager to support our engineers on the Cloud Services team.
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System Architect
San Francisco, CA or Remote
The Wikimedia Foundation is hiring a Systems Architect to join our new Architecture Team to collectively shape and design Wikimedia’s future systems to support sharing the world’s knowledge. This role will be part of a small new team, but will work remotely and collaboratively across the organization and movement ensuring our systems enable users to document, create, share and seek the knowledge contained in Wikimedia Projects while making sure our systems are resilient, secure and scalable.
Values
We strive for excellence.
We welcome and cherish our differences.
We are in this together.
We engage in civil discourse.
We are inspired.
US Benefits
Medical benefits
Fully paid medical, dental, and vision insurance premiums for employees and their eligible families.
Family-friendly policies
Includes 100% paid new parent leave for seven weeks, plus an additional five weeks for pregnancy.
Wellness program
$1800 annually for fitness memberships, babysitting, continuing education, student loans, and more.
Professional development
We offer course reimbursements, in-house sharing sessions, language program reimbursements, and other opportunities.
Retirement
401(k) retirement plan with matched contributions up to 4% of annual salary.
Time off
Includes vacation days, sick leave, and volunteer time. To make sure there is shared time off every month, we offer 19 holidays per year.
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.
On-site in San Francisco
Including snacks to fuel your thinking, monthly massages, gym, yoga classes, weekly farmers market, gender neutral bathroom, monthly staff lunch, and more.
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