Wikimedia Foundation - Legal Counsel

• J.D. from accredited U.S. law school or equivalent foreign degree, and admission to practice law in that jurisdiction. • 2-5 years experience with legal review of technical products or online services. • Excellent written and verbal communication skills and attention to detail, full fluency in written and spoken English. • Qualities that are important to us: • Dedicated, hardworking, passionate, and able to complete projects independently. • Ability to learn on the job, spot issues, think fast, and comfortably deal with complex and ambiguous issues with sound judgment. • Comfortable in a highly collaborative, multicultural, transparent environment. • Ability to assess and manage complex risks, and triage issues appropriately. • Mission-driven with a public service orientation and high personal integrity. • An understanding of, and commitment to, a free and open internet, to the open source and free culture movements, and to Wikimedia’s mission. • Experience with open source, free culture, free software, or online communities. • A degree in computer science, engineering, or related experience, and have a good understanding of software engineering processes and issues. • Experience with public policy, government relations or other policy-facing functions. • Ability to speak other languages, experience living or working outside the United States, or past work on international legal issues are a major plus. • 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. • News from across the Wikimedia movement • Wikimedia Blog • Wikimedia 2030