Wikimedia Discovery/Roles and responsibilities
- Provide overall vision and direction for product
- Communicate progress and direction cross organization
- Provide support to team leads
- Getting the team t-shirts and hoodies
- Removing blockers
- Keeping energy, enthusiasm and motivation towards central goals
- Staffing: Hiring, Contractors, Personnel, Budgeting
- Providing staff mentorship for personal and professional growth
- Coordinating across department engineering teams
- Connecting external partners with internal teams as necessary
- Driving KPI's and operational efficiency
- Growing internal leadership
- Removing single points of failures as necessary
- Contributing to overall strategic direction
- Be the single point of escalation for contending priorities among stakeholders
- Determine priority of tasks
- Make final decision about whether or not work done on stories is complete ('acceptance')
- Make final decisions about trade-offs when desired functionality, or scope, exceeds the capacity of the team
- Managing the product roadmap :)
- Be readily available to team members as questions arise
- Be responsible for including all relevant team members in discussions and reviews
- Organize teams to be effective in meeting their goals
- Develop goals and track progress publicly and collaboratively
- Represent team members within the organization and publicly
- Coordinate with other teams and departments
- Support the development of team members' individual career paths
- Recruit and hire new team members
- Hiring, and building a design team, including UX engineers and designers
- Worrying about how we can be the best damn designed product in the organization
- Setting up design processes that enables the team to ship a well designed product
- Building design patterns that can be used across the team and even within the whole organization
- Review and approve patches and builds with Product Owner to maintain product quality
- Overseeing UX implementation with the help of Front-end engineers
- Explore new avenues through prototyping
- Provide a UX vision for the team
- An engineer + all this other stuff
- Set standards for code quality and code review
- Make architectural decisions
- Answer tech questions of developers, or point them to other resources
- Be a single point of contact for any questions relating to the engineering and technology of the product +1
- Devs can bring specific questions about tasks to the PO
- Represent the views and perspective of the engineering team in broader discussions
- Ensuring that the team is represented at Scrum of Scrums (so far Stas has been representing search at SoS)
- Supporting recruiting & hiring
- Suggest process improvements
- Help clear any blockers; raise awareness of risks
- Arrange and facilitate meetings (e.g. standups and retrospectives)
- Support quarterly planning
- Assist Product owners with backlog grooming
- Produce artifacts such as burn-down charts, as needed
- Facilitating communications from and to the WMF's Product and Engineering departments
- Assisting with testing, bug filing, documentation writing
- Delivering announcements, news, and feedback
- Engaging translators for the user interface and for documentation
- Perform ad-hoc analyses and communicate results
- Develop and maintain Discovery Dashboards
- Work with teams to design KPIs and other metrics
- Help design, oversee, analyze, and report on A/B tests
- Provide analytics support for product managers, product owners, and other engineers
- Point of contact for other departments (e.g. Legal) for Discovery-owned data
- Contribute UDFs to Analytics' Refinery
