Hello everyone, After serving as product manager at Wikimedia Foundation for the past two years, I am now looking to transition into a leadership role focused on community and people management.
I have discussed this goal with Erik and Howie, and they have invited me to apply for the new position of Director of Community Engagement (Product) (1). I look forward to interviewing for that job, to help build a stronger partnership between our community and product teams. I am also very interested in developing effective governance tools that involve all our users -- and in working on other strategic projects that can enable positive change in our movement. While I really enjoy my current work with the multimedia team, it’s likely to become increasingly technical in nature in the next few years, and a community engagement role seems like a better fit for my skills and experience (2). I realize this new opening is a competitive search, and I'm prepared to explore other opportunities at WMF and beyond if I'm not selected for this job. During this transition, I will work with Howie to recruit my successor, and will continue to serve as multimedia product manager until we hire that person. If you know anyone that would be well suited for this role, please contact us. A job description will be posted in the next few days. I am glad to report that we now have a world-class multimedia team (3), with a clear vision for the coming years. I am confident that our team will be successful in meeting its goals, now that it is fully staffed and up to speed. And I can't wait to release Media Viewer, our new immersive multimedia browser, later this quarter. I am also proud of all that we accomplished with other teams during my two-year tenure as a product manager. Notifications are now helping millions of users stay informed and work more effectively. Our Thanks tool is used widely to share positive feedback throughout our community. Beta Features now lets us test new software long before it's released. And we've learned important lessons from our Page Curation and Article Feedback experiments. Lastly, our new Roundtables program is helping us collaborate productively with our community to plan and develop new products (4). I'd like to thank all of our community and team members who helped make these projects possible, and look forward to many more collaborations with you in coming years. Regards as ever, Fabrice (1) http://hire.jobvite.com/CompanyJobs/Careers.aspx?c=qSa9VfwQ&cs=9UL9Vfwt&page=Job%20Description&j=oX0kYfwZ (2) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Fabrice_Florin_(WMF) (3) https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Multimedia (4) https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Roundtables _______________________________ Fabrice Florin Product Manager Wikimedia Foundation [email protected] Twitter: @fabriceflorin Wikipedia: Fabrice Florin (WMF) _______________________________________________ Multimedia mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/multimedia
