Fantastic. On Oct 27, 2017 3:09 PM, "Katherine Maher" <kma...@wikimedia.org> wrote:
> Hi all, > > I’m happy to let you know that the Foundation has concluded our search for > a Chief Product Officer (CPO). Our own Toby Negrin will transition from > acting as interim lead of the Audiences department to this permanent and > updated role. Please join me in congratulating Toby! > > Toby was unanimously recommended by our CPO search panel, following an > executive search process very similar to those used for recent executive > appointments in Legal and Talent & Culture. We kicked off the process by > developing a job description based on feedback from staff, particularly > from the Audiences department. This job description attracted hundreds of > applicants after being posted in August 2017. A pool of approximately 30 > candidates was reviewed by the primary hiring panel, made up of > stakeholders from Audiences and Technology. We conducted additional > interviews with six candidates, and two external finalists were interviewed > by the full panel and myself. > > Since joining the Foundation in 2013, Toby has demonstrated leadership > focussed on outcomes, collaboration with the Wikimedia community, and > respect for Wikimedia values. He led an expansion of our analytics efforts, > built a new team focused on Readers, and championed the development of > intuitive mobile interfaces and mobile applications. Toby played a critical > role in the creation of the Community Tech team, and supporting the > creation of the New Readers program. He has a deep interest in partnership > with the communities, an instinct for assembling and cultivating teams, and > a record of supporting staff as they develop and explore new skills and > roles. > > Leading our product development efforts takes more than a commitment to the > Wikimedia mission. As the world around us changes, we too must evaluate how > we best make progress toward our mission. Changes in demographics, > language, connectivity, interfaces, and more will have a profound and > transformative effect on our projects and how we seek to achieve our > vision. To respond effectively, we will need to develop a vision and plan > for how the Wikimedia projects will evolve, growing users, expanding > services, and improving retention and participation. And perhaps more > importantly, we will need to develop a culture of excellence, service, and > sustainability across the organization, so that we can retain and attract a > diverse crow of exceptional colleagues. I’m excited to see how Toby and > the department will continue to take on these challenges and opportunities. > > Toby brings nearly 20 years of experience if integrating data, research, > and design to produce effective and popular products. Prior to joining the > Foundation, he led analytics efforts at DeNA, a mobile social games > company. At DeNA, he partnered with colleagues in Japan and China to build > global dashboards used to track gaming performance around the world. He > also held roles at Yahoo! related to cloud platforms, anti-abuse efforts, > and content moderation. Toby grew up in Los Angeles and the UK before > landing in the San Francisco Bay Area, and worked in software development > at startups in Sweden and The Netherlands. Toby graduated from the NIMBAS > Graduate School of Management and University of California - Santa Cruz. He > was a board member and treasurer of the Golden Gate Philharmonic youth > orchestra. In his free time, he enjoys spending time winemaking and grape > growing, running, hiking Bay Area trails, and playing tennis. > > I want to offer my sincere thanks to the CPO hiring committee for your work > on this process: Jon Katz, Nirzar Pangarkar, Adam Baso, Grace Gellerman, > Anne Gomez, James Forrester, Victoria Coleman, and Ryan Kaldari. A special > thank you to Liz Verlade, Joady Lohr, and Anna Stillwell for their amazing > work coordinating the process. Finally, thank you to Eileen Hershenov, > Maggie Dennis, Megan Hernandez, Pau Giner, Danny Horn, Runa Bhattacharjee, > and Christophe Henner for their input throughout the process. > > Again, and especially for those at WikidataCon this week, please join me in > congratulating Toby on this appointment! > > Cheers, > Katherine > > -- > Katherine Maher > Executive Director > > *We moved! **Our new address:* > > Wikimedia Foundation > 1 Montgomery Street, Suite 1600 > San Francisco, CA 94104 > > +1 (415) 839-6885 ext. 6635 > +1 (415) 712 4873 > kma...@wikimedia.org > https://annual.wikimedia.org > > -- > Katherine Maher > Executive Director > > *We moved! **Our new address:* > > Wikimedia Foundation > 1 Montgomery Street, Suite 1600 > San Francisco, CA 94104 > > +1 (415) 839-6885 ext. 6635 > +1 (415) 712 4873 > kma...@wikimedia.org > https://annual.wikimedia.org > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/ > wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/ > wiki/Wikimedia-l > New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
