[Wikimedia-l] Fwd: [Tech/Product] Engineering/Product org structure

[Erik Moeller]

On Wed, Nov 7, 2012 at 10:04 AM, rupert THURNER
<rupert.thurner at gmail.com> wrote:

> there is a lot of good reasoning in your mail. you talk of "engineering
> functions" and "product functions" already existing. which ones are these,
> what is their responsibility, and how many people work in these functions
> currently?

(Apologies for just now catching up with this thread due to travel &
personal time off)

Dear Rupert,

right now, the following folks work in Product:

- Howie Fung (Director)
- Design/UX team: Brandon Harris, Munaf Assaf, Vibha Bamba, Pau Giner
- Product Management: Fabrice Florin, James Forrester, Siebrand
Mazeland, Steven Walling, Maryana Pinchunk
- Community Liaison: Oliver Keyes
- Research: Dario Taraborelli, Ryan Faulkner, and additional part-time
research contractors

We've currently got a couple of vacancies: a Visual Designer position,
and the Product Manager for Mobile. According to plan an additional PM
Multimedia position is scheduled to be opened later in the fiscal
year.

So there are currently ~13 FTEs in Product, and 3 current or planned vacancies.

Howie elaborated on these functions here:
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-l/2012-November/122693.html

HTH,
Erik
-- 
Erik Möller
VP of Engineering and Product Development, Wikimedia Foundation

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