.SummaryWe're hiring a Research Manager strongly committed to the principles of free knowledge, open source and open data, transparency, privacy, and collaboration to join the Research team. As our Research Manager, you will be leading a small, highly talented, and ambitious team of research scientists and research engineers to develop models and insights that support the technology and policy needs of the Wikimedia projects across more than 300 languages, and to advance our understanding of the Wikimedia projects. You'll work remotely with the fully distributed Research team, with members currently spread between UTC+3 and UTC-7.You will be accountable for our Knowledge Integrity program, which is a highly interdisciplinary program with many stakeholders inside and outside of the Wikimedia Foundation. Within the Foundation, you will work closely with ML Platform, Data Engineering and Event Platform, Legal (Global Advocacy, Trust & Safety), and Product (Moderator tools, Anti-Harassment Tools) teams and more. Outside of the Wikimedia Foundation, you will work with the Wikimedia developers behind bots that operate on the Wikimedia projects, Wikimedia researchers, and Wikimedia affiliates and user groups to understand, translate and prioritize their needs as part of the work of your team.Here are some things we've worked on recently that might give you a better sense of the scope of work you will be accountable for and part of:We built a multi-dimensional risk observatory to monitor and compare knowledge integrity risks across more than 300 Wikipedia language editions.We built machine learning models (now in Production) to support patrolling tasks on Wikipedia and Wikidata.We developed a pipeline to compute and publish content gap metrics to help the Foundation address knowledge gaps.We developed Production level data pipelines to generate article features and article quality scores for ML models.We published research on reference quality in WWW'23 (paper, video) and multilingual vandalism detection in KDD'23 (paper).We gave talks or participated in panels as part of Korean AI-Summit, the International Science Council, the Creative Commons Seminars, and beyond speaking to the role of Wikipedia on the online information ecosystem.If you are interested to learn more about all aspects of the work of the Research team, we encourage you to read our bi-annual Research Report.You are responsible for:Managing a globally distributed team of research scientists and research engineers in the Research team.Creating a team environment where team members feel motivated and inspired.Recruiting, hiring, and onboarding new team members and contractors.Working with team members to set individual performance goals, and supporting them in meeting and evolving their goals and career paths
