• At least 7 years of professional experience working in teams that build products, including at least 2 years of that time in a security-focused role.
• Experience driving significant security initiatives all the way out the door, in either a senior technical or product management capacity.
• Comfortable using and learning command-line-based tools as needed.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills and the ability to interact effectively with all levels of management, staff, and communities.
• Capable of managing a diverse range of responsibilities in a dynamic and results-oriented environment.
• Qualities that are important to us:
• Belief that Wikipedia and its community model is a good thing in the world.
• Ability to be decisive and expeditious despite a complex set of stakeholders, including volunteers who perform critical work for the projects.
• Experience working with online communities, especially public ones.
• The Wikimedia Foundation is the nonprofit organization that operates Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia free knowledge projects. Our vision is a world in which every single human can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. We believe that everyone has the potential to contribute something to our shared knowledge, and that everyone should be able to access that knowledge freely. We host Wikipedia and the Wikimedia projects, build software experiences for reading, contributing, and sharing Wikimedia content, support the volunteer communities and partners who make Wikimedia possible, and advocate for policies that enable Wikimedia and free knowledge to thrive.
• The Wikimedia Foundation is a charitable, not-for-profit organization that relies on donations. We receive donations from millions of individuals around the world, with an average donation of about $15. We also receive donations through institutional grants and gifts. The Wikimedia Foundation is a United States 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization with offices in San Francisco, California, USA.
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