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 free knowledge projects. They are seeking a Data Science Manager to lead the Product Analytics team, guiding product decisions through quantitative data insights and managing a team of data scientists to ensure timely delivery and data accuracy.
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
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.