Wikimedia Foundation

HQ
San Francisco
8,355 Total Employees
Year Founded: 2003

Wikimedia Foundation Benefits Overview

Compensation + Benefits

Offers 401(K)

Offers life insurance

Offers accidental death & dismemberment insurance

Offers disability insurance

Offers occupational accident insurance

Provides adoption assistance

Offers generous parental leave

Provides family medical leave

Offers dental insurance

Offers health insurance

Offers mental health benefits

Offers dependent care

Offers Flexible Spending Account (FSA)

Offers vision insurance

Offers Health Savings Account (HSA)

Company Culture

Provides commuter benefits

Provides free snacks and drinks

Office is pet friendly

Offers legal assistance

Utilizes a flexible work schedule

Offers a remote work program

Work-Life Balance + Wellbeing

Offers company-sponsored outings

Offers gym membership

Offers an Employee Assistance Program (EAP)

Offers generous PTO

Provides paid holidays

Offers sabbatical leave

Provides military leave

Offers paid volunteer time

Provides paid sick days

Provides bereavement leave

Offers unpaid extended leave

Career Growth + Development

Provides customized development tracks

Offers apprenticeship programs

Provides tuition assistance

Other • Social Impact
Develops and manages technology partnerships that expand Wikimedia product distribution and content reuse. Responsibilities include identifying partners, negotiating zero-dollar LOIs and MOUs, supporting attribution pilots, maintaining CRM pipelines, creating pitch materials and strategies, aligning partner needs with product roadmaps, coordinating cross-functional teams, attending industry events, and monitoring technology trends. The role requires strong technology and media connections, product fluency, negotiation skills, analytical ability, and independent program coordination.
Other • Social Impact
Leads cross-functional social media and communications projects, managing scopes, timelines, dependencies, workflows, resources, risks, stakeholder alignment, and campaign delivery. Coordinates distributed teams across social, content, creative, design, video, community, PR, marketing, analytics, and external partners. Uses Asana and Google Workspace to track deliverables, document processes, report project health, facilitate meetings and retrospectives, resolve roadblocks, and implement process improvements.
Other • Social Impact
Design and deliver improvements to Wikipedia’s wikitext processing infrastructure, write PHP and JavaScript, maintain internet APIs, instrument components, and use caching and persistence technologies. Collaborate across engineering, product, design, client, and volunteer communities; own complex technical projects, make architectural decisions, maintain reliable high-performance software, write tests, address security feedback, and mentor engineers.