Job Description: Responsibilities & Requirements
The Wikimedia Foundation seeks a strategic, collaborative, and creative brand leader to help us advance one of the world’s most beloved brands: Wikipedia. This position is part of our larger Communications Team and reports to our Director of Brand.
In this role, you will work with a brand team, Wikimedia volunteers, external partners, technologists, media outlets, and Foundation staff to maintain and grow the Wikimedia brand.
You are responsible for:
- Evolving brand management systems and practices allowing various audiences to easily use brand materials
- Implementing brand strategy recommendations collected from the 2030 Wikimedia Movement Strategy, 2018-19 Brand Research project, and 2020 Movement Brand Project
- Developing tools for measuring and managing brand value
- Reviewing and responding to requests that make use of the brand
- Managing team of brand professionals including Brand Collabs Lead and a Brand Associate to ensure strategic impact of cultural collaborations and community brand materials
- Educating volunteers, partners, and collaborators on the correct usage of brand materials
- Building and maintaining design library of materials, icons, logos, colors, typefaces, and guidelines for volunteers and partners around the world to use
- Developing new programs, partnerships, and events to increase the global impact of Wikipedia and related projects
- Actively positioning the Wikipedia brand amidst changing technology, societal, and cultural factors
- Collaborating with volunteers around the world to ensure brand materials are globally-relevant
- Researching, measuring, and reporting on brand health
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Skills and Experience:
- 3-5 years of relevant brand management or marketing experience
- Success working with collaborators across design, technology, legal, marketing, and creative professional fields
- Ability to develop globally-sensitive communications materials
- Excellent organizational and time management skills
Qualities that are important to us:
- Resilience—we work on new and interesting problems in public and collaborative ways
- Being open, curious, and inquiring in our work
- Internal motivation and high standards
- Working together for outcomes, and being willing to let go to scale or change course
- Sharing a culture of constructive criticism and respect
Additionally, we’d love it if you have:
- Fluency in multiple languages
- Experience working with volunteer-led organizations
- Understanding of free licensing and copyright
NOTE: When submitting your application, please submit a cover letter conveying why you are interested in this role and our mission.
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The Wikimedia Foundation seeks a strategic, collaborative, and creative brand leader to help us advance one of the world’s most beloved brands: Wikipedia. This position is part of our larger Communications Team and reports to our Director of Brand.
In this role, you will work with a brand team, Wikimedia volunteers, external partners, technologists, media outlets, and Foundation staff to maintain and grow the Wikimedia brand.
You are responsible for:
- Evolving brand management systems and practices allowing various audiences to easily use brand materials
- Implementing brand strategy recommendations collected from the 2030 Wikimedia Movement Strategy, 2018-19 Brand Research project, and 2020 Movement Brand Project
- Developing tools for measuring and managing brand value
- Reviewing and responding to requests that make use of the brand
- Managing team of brand professionals including Brand Collabs Lead and a Brand Associate to ensure strategic impact of cultural collaborations and community brand materials
- Educating volunteers, partners, and collaborators on the correct usage of brand materials
- Building and maintaining design library of materials, icons, logos, colors, typefaces, and guidelines for volunteers and partners around the world to use
- Developing new programs, partnerships, and events to increase the global impact of Wikipedia and related projects
- Actively positioning the Wikipedia brand amidst changing technology, societal, and cultural factors
- Collaborating with volunteers around the world to ensure brand materials are globally-relevant
- Researching, measuring, and reporting on brand health
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CONTINUE READING BELOW
Skills and Experience:
- 3-5 years of relevant brand management or marketing experience
- Success working with collaborators across design, technology, legal, marketing, and creative professional fields
- Ability to develop globally-sensitive communications materials
- Excellent organizational and time management skills
Qualities that are important to us:
- Resilience—we work on new and interesting problems in public and collaborative ways
- Being open, curious, and inquiring in our work
- Internal motivation and high standards
- Working together for outcomes, and being willing to let go to scale or change course
- Sharing a culture of constructive criticism and respect
Additionally, we’d love it if you have:
- Fluency in multiple languages
- Experience working with volunteer-led organizations
- Understanding of free licensing and copyright
NOTE: When submitting your application, please submit a cover letter conveying why you are interested in this role and our mission.
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