Monday, February 6, 2012

Job opening - Technical Product Analyst at Wikimedia Foundation (San Francisco, CA)

JOB TITLE


Technical Product Analyst


REPORTS TO


Director of Product Development


JOB PURPOSE


As a Technical Product Analyst, you will work side by side with the development team to build Wikipedia’s next generation editor, the tool thousands use to write Wikipedia articles. Today, editing Wikipedia is a daunting task as it requires the would-be contributor to learn a programming language known as wiki markup. Your goal is to help increase the number of people who will contribute to the sum of human knowledge by being part of the team that is building an editor that anyone can use.


JOB SUMMARY



  • Lead the definition and prioritization of product requirements for Wikipedia’s upcoming rich text editor for writing Wikipedia articles.

  • Manage product backlog as part of software development process! . Translate user stories into technical requirements.

  • Help evaluate different technical approaches to fulfilling business requirements. Work with development team to ensure appropriate balance between short term and long term technical considerations.

  • Conduct research to help the development team understand key editing use cases, including how editors use other software (e.g., client software) to complete their editing tasks.

  • Incorporate feedback from the editing community into product backlog.



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