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🗣️ Communications

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Wikimedia Foundation

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501 - 1000 employees

Founded 2003

🤝 Non-profit

📚 Education

📱 Media

💰 $2.5M Grant on 2019-09

Non-profit • Education • Media

Wikimedia Foundation is a nonprofit charitable organization dedicated to the growth, development, and distribution of free, multilingual content. It provides the essential infrastructure for free knowledge, including hosting Wikipedia, the free online encyclopedia that is created, edited, and verified by a global community of volunteers. Supported primarily through donations, Wikimedia Foundation promotes collaborative projects that aim to share knowledge reflecting human diversity and strives to protect everyone's right to access free and open knowledge.

📋 Description

• Develop and own Wikimedia Enterprise's external communications strategy across media/trade press, speaking engagements, and other channels • Build relationships with reporters and conference organizers to secure coverage and speaking opportunities • Serve as primary media liaison, manage daily press inquiries, prepare spokespeople, staff interviews, and handle information and speaking requests • Lead rapid-response media efforts and triage sensitive, fast-moving situations • Partner with internal teams to develop narratives and thought leadership • Guide, produce, and review press statements, blogs, pitch notes and lists, briefing documents, and other communications materials • Coordinate end-to-end communications workflows for major external launches and announcements with the Enterprise Growth team • Align the Wikimedia Enterprise growth plan with the Foundation's annual communications calendar • Build relationships and lead cooperative efforts with Wikimedia Foundation colleagues, volunteers, affiliates, and external partners • Manage external vendors such as PR agencies • Use data and customer insights to refine messaging, content, and strategy • Set communications goals and KPIs, track results against the growth plan, and share actionable insights with leadership and stakeholders • Report to the Communications Manager, with a dotted line to the President of Wikimedia Enterprise

🎯 Requirements

• At least 8+ years of communications experience, including senior/lead-level experience with minimal oversight in a tech and/or B2B tech environment or supporting a commercial product line • Experience bridging communications and marketing/growth functions • Experience developing and executing earned media strategy and thought leadership • Experience building relationships with press, partners, conference organizers, and wider stakeholders • Excellent stakeholder management skills, including influencing senior and executive stakeholders • Sound judgment on reputational risk and sensitivity • Ability to operate with ambiguity and take ownership with minimal onboarding • Strong writing and editing skills across press materials, marketing copy, and internal briefing documents • Strong editorial judgment for marketing materials, campaigns, web copy, social, blogs, and thought leadership • Experience tying communications to business results through metrics and impact measurement • Experience working in a matrixed organization with dotted-line reporting • Experience working remotely across multiple time zones and emerging markets • Experience overseeing and managing external agency relationships • Current work authorization required in the applicant's location for non-US employees • Preferred: experience in nonprofit, open-source, mission-driven, or community-governed organizations • Preferred: understanding of AI, data licensing, and content provenance debates • Preferred: familiarity with Wikimedia, Wikipedia, or free-knowledge/open-content spaces • Preferred: background in tech, media, or platform companies navigating AI-related content, licensing, or data issues

🏖️ Benefits

• Potential contract extension based on organizational needs • Remote-first work arrangement • Compensation adjusted to country of hire for applicants outside the United States • Equal opportunity and inclusive workplace • Disability accommodations available during the application process