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Wikimedia Foundation is hiring a Legal Counsel

Responsibilities

  • Provide legal guidance to product, engineering, and design teams during feature development, rollouts, testing, and day-to-day platform management.
  • Assist in evaluating legal aspects of new product features, modifications, and technology initiatives related to the organization’s projects.
  • Help draft, review, and update publicly accessible terms, notices, policies, FAQs, and internal procedural documents.
  • Advise on matters involving product law, data privacy, data handling, consumer rights, intellectual property, accessibility standards, online safety, and related areas.
  • Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to detect potential legal risks early and create feasible, mission-consistent resolutions.
  • Track and analyze emerging laws and regulations that could impact the organization’s global initiatives.
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Wikimedia Foundation
The nonprofit organization that operates Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia free knowledge projects. It hosts Wikipedia and the Wikimedia projects, builds software experiences for reading, contributing, and sharing Wikimedia content, supports the volunteer communities and partners who make Wikimedia possible, and advocates for policies that enable Wikimedia and free knowledge to thrive.
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