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[Remote] Manager, Data Science (Product Analytics)

Remote · USA Full-time New today

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. The Wikimedia Foundation is a nonprofit organization that operates Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects, aiming to provide free access to knowledge globally. They are seeking a Data Science Manager to lead the Product Analytics team, guiding product strategies and decisions through actionable data insights while managing a team of data scientists.

Responsibilities

  • Informing strategy, guiding product decisions, and assessing the impact of product development work through your team’s timely delivery of accurate quantitative data and insights – balancing the need to operate in a fast-changing environment with appropriate rigor
  • Proactively making recommendations on product direction and data strategy, surfacing insights and interpreting results
  • People management for a team of roughly seven data scientists and nurturing a strongly collaborative and inclusive culture of trust, excellence, and empowerment
  • Mentoring team members on critical thinking, data-informed storytelling, technical skillset, and stakeholder partnership
  • Continuous development and improvement of experimentation and measurement best practices, product health metrics, visualizations, and reports for easier interpretation and increased accessibility
  • Partnering with the Experiment Platform & Data Engineering teams to build and maintain data products that make data and insights accessible
  • Collaborating with product teams – especially product managers – and colleagues in the Research & Decision Science group to cultivate a practice of data-informed product development and decision making

Skills

  • Deep experience with experimental design and statistics, applied to internet-scale audience or user experience data
  • Experience collaborating with product development teams in a fast-paced environment to test, analyze, and evaluate user-facing features
  • Prior experience as a people manager
  • Demonstrated commitment to equity, inclusion, and diversity
  • Experience with large-scale data processing & storage tools (we use Hadoop, Hive, Presto, and Spark)
  • Ability to identify where data can have the most impact and clearly communicate findings and recommendations to partner teams
  • Discretion and competence in handling sensitive or confidential data
  • Curiosity and critical thinking skills; a lifelong learner who sees situations through multiple lenses
  • A coach and mentor with high emotional intelligence: evidenced by humility, tact, compassion, high levels of integrity, and good listening skills
  • A facilitator with strong collaboration skills and an empowerment approach to open and transparent management
  • Empathy towards and commitment to work with the Wikimedia volunteer communities
  • Commitment to the mission of the organization and our values and guiding principles
  • Self-motivated with an ability to navigate through ambiguity and complexity
  • Exposure to, and interest in, ethical data management and privacy practices
  • Contributed to Wikimedia projects or have experience working in other open source projects
  • Experience with Superset, Growthbook, or other open-source testing, data visualization, or reporting tools

Benefits

  • U.S. Benefits & Perks

Company Overview

  • Wikimedia Foundation encourages the development and distribution of free educational content with projects such as Wikipedia. It was founded in 2003, and is headquartered in San Francisco, California, USA, with a workforce of 501-1000 employees. Its website is http://wikimediafoundation.org.
  • Company H1B Sponsorship

  • Wikimedia Foundation has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 1 in 2025, 4 in 2024, 5 in 2023, 3 in 2022, 1 in 2021, 5 in 2020. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.
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