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Responsibilities:

  • Maintaining a fluent and real-time command of the global research landscape to inform the conversations on Wikipedia quality and integrity.
  • Leading a strategic research portfolio on knowledge integrity.
  • Mentoring individual contributors to execute high-impact scientific projects.

Skills and Experience:

  • A track record of scholarly publications and service to the research and scientific communities.
  • 3 or more years of strategic technical leadership in large matrixed organizations with a proven ability to counsel senior leadership.
  • Proven ability to perform high velocity audits of research to identify methodological flaws, Movement and organizational opportunities and risks, and insights.

Qualities:

  • Deep resonance with our mission, values, and guiding principles.
  • Ability to maintain scientific objectivity and lead through high-stakes ambiguity and change.
  • A proactive builder who is able to theorize and also create systems, frameworks, or products.

Wikimedia Foundation

The Wikimedia Foundation operates Wikipedia and other Wikimedia free knowledge projects. They envision a world where every single human can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. With staff members and contractors based in 40+ countries, the Wikimedia Foundation values a diverse workforce and strives to maintain an inclusive and equitable workplace.

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