Wikimedia Discovery/Roles and responsibilities

Director of Discovery ("Management, Strategic, and Vision")

• 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

Product Manager/Product Owner ("Product Vision and Story Prioritization")

• 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

Engineering Manager

• 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

UX Lead ("UX Design and Vision, and leading UI engineers")

• 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

Tech Lead ("Architecture and Code Quality")

• 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

Agile Coach ("Facilitation and Process Improvement")

• 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

Community Liaison ("Community Engagement for Software Deployment")

• 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

Data Analyst ("Research, Analysis, Metrics, and Reporting")

• 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