Wikimedia Foundation

Wikimedia Foundation encourages the development and distribution of free educational content with projects such as Wikipedia.

251-500 employees

Founded 2003

$2.1M grant

Private Company

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Remote-First Company

This company operates with a remote-first culture, allowing team members to work from anywhere.

Open Positions19

The Wikimedia Foundation is a remote-first organization with staff members including contractors based 40+ countries. Please note that we are currently able to hire in the following: US States: ArizonaCaliforniaColorado+48 more locationsFull-TimeNonprofit, EducationPosted

Lead Learning Experience Designer

Design and develop innovative digital learning experiences, capacity-strengthening resources, and performance support solutions for contributors across the Wikimedia movement.
Partner with product teams, community groups, researchers, and subject matter experts to identify learning needs, contributor challenges, and opportunities to strengthen participation.
Determine the right learning approach for each opportunity, whether that be a self-paced course, video, interactive experience, AI-enabled support, workshop, or embedded guidance.
Develop learning experiences that support contributors in understanding new tools, workflows, policies, governance processes, and community practices across Wikimedia projects.
Rapidly prototype, test and iterate on learning experiences, using modern authoring tools, multimedia, and AI tools.
Apply learning science, user-centered design, and learning experience design methodologies to create engaging, effective, and inclusive solutions.
Evaluate learning effectiveness using learner feedback, participation data, and other qualitative and quantitative insights.
Contribute to the ongoing evolution of the Foundation's learning strategy by staying current with learning technology, online learning, AI, and digital engagement.

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About Wikimedia Foundation

Wikimedia Foundation builds and maintains the technology that powers Wikipedia, the world's largest free knowledge resource, empowering over a billion users monthly. You will join a mission to provide free access to knowledge for every human on the planet. This non-profit organization hosts a suite of projects, including Wikimedia Commons, Wiktionary, and Wikisource, all built on volunteer contributions. They serve a global community of readers and 265,000 monthly volunteer editors. Wikimedia generates income through donations and its enterprise services, like providing data to Google.

How We Work

You will work in a remote-first organization, with colleagues spanning over 40 countries, fostering a diverse and inclusive environment. The culture values collaboration, open communication, and a feedback-friendly atmosphere. You will find comfort with ambiguity and a bias for action to be key traits for success here. Teams aim for continuous improvement and shared understanding across the global movement.

Engineering at Wikimedia Foundation

You will contribute to open-source technology, including MediaWiki, the platform that runs all Wikimedia projects. Engineers tackle challenges in improving mobile product experiences, APIs, and platform integrations for a global, multilingual audience. You might use Python and Jupyter for data analysis, SQL with large-scale data tools like Hive and Spark, or work with web technologies like JavaScript, Vue.js, and backend languages like PHP. The team uses AI, like ORES, for tasks such as edit-checking on Wikipedia. You will build scalable, reliable systems that serve billions of requests each month.

Why Join Us

You will empower global access to knowledge, impacting billions of users worldwide.
You will collaborate in a remote-first, diverse environment across 40+ countries.
You will build and maintain open-source technology that serves a vital public good.
You will contribute to projects like Wikipedia that receive 15 billion views monthly.
You will work on challenging technical problems with a passionate, mission-driven team.

Benefits & Perks

Fully paid medical, dental, and vision insurance for employees and eligible families (US-based)
401(k) retirement plan with matched contributions up to 4% of annual salary (US-based)
Generous paid time off including vacation, holidays, sick leave, and volunteer days
Paid parental leave (7 weeks 100% paid new parent leave, plus an additional 5 weeks for pregnancy)
Learning and development budget for conferences, classes, and books

Tech Stack

web_serverwidgetscmsframeworkmobile

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