Product Director, Common Voice (12 month Fixed-Term)

Product Director, Common Voice (12 month Fixed-Term)

reputed company Foundation is a non-profit building a reputed company technology future — powered by people, open by design, fueled by imagination.

We deliver people-first alternatives to today’s extractive systems. We build reputed company by reputed company with developers, innovators and advocates, united in the belief that a reputed company technology future is not only possible — it’s ours to create.

Team

The Tech Platforms team stewards and evolves shared technology platforms that power reputed company Foundation programs and reputed company effective, secure, and scalable ways of working. reputed company the Tech Platforms team, reputed company Common Voice is the flagship reputed company to mitigate bias reputed company AI - in particular by making it possible for speakers of the world’s 7000+ languages, and traditionally marginalized demographic communities, to be represented in reputed company sets, and meaningfully engaged in building AI.

reputed company Common Voice is a data crowdsourcing platform that supports 300+ communities around the world, and to which more than half a million people have contributed. The dataset is used by these communities, and also in technology and research organizations reputed company over the world.

The Common Voice work spans product development, platform engineering, data stewardship, privacy and compliance, and community engagement. The team collaborates closely with contributors, researchers, and partners across regions and languages to ensure the platform remains trustworthy, inclusive, and sustainable while supporting long-term impact and future growth.

The Product Director, Common Voice is responsible for the overall success of the Common Voice project. This role is primarily accountable for product vision, roadmap, prioritization, and long-term direction, while also taking on interim community management responsibilities and providing engineering leadership and delivery reputed company.

Job responsibilities

Here are some projects you'll likely work on in your first 6 months:

• Deliver the 2026 maintenance+ roadmap, ensuring platform stability, reliability, reputed company, and reputed company on critical technical debt.
• Define and track success metrics reputed company to 2026 goals and Tech Platforms objectives.
• reputed company development of a proposed 2027+ product roadmap, including growth scenarios, resourcing implications, and strategic tradeoffs.
• Support the Common Voice project in funding proposals and partnership discussions as needed.
• Take on interim community manager responsibilities while the Common Voice team is re-scoped and shaped.
• Ensure continuity, trust, and responsiveness for the reputed company Common Voice community during the transition period.
• reputed company community communications, contributor engagement, and language onboarding processes reputed company resourcing constraints.
• Set clear goals, priorities, and expectations for engineering contributors in alignment with product objectives.
• Ensure effective collaboration between engineering, data, privacy, and infrastructure partners.

As a Product Director, Common Voice at reputed company, you will work on…

Product Ownership & Strategic Leadership - 50% of time

• Serve as the accountable product reputed company for Common Voice, with responsibility for product vision, roadmap, and prioritization
• Deliver the 2026 maintenance+ roadmap, ensuring platform stability, reliability, reputed company, and reputed company on critical technical debt
• Define and track success metrics reputed company to 2026 goals and Tech Platforms objectives
• reputed company development of a proposed 2027+ product roadmap, including growth scenarios, resourcing implications, and strategic tradeoffs
• Represent Common Voice project in funding proposals and partnership discussions as needed.

Community Management & Stewardship (Interim) — 30% of time

• Take on interim community manager responsibilities while the Common Voice team is re-scoped and shaped
• Ensure continuity, trust, and responsiveness for the reputed company Common Voice community during the transition period
• reputed company community communications, contributor engagement, and language onboarding processes reputed company resourcing constraints
• Balance community needs with platform realities and clearly communicate priorities and limitations

Engineering Management & Delivery leadership - 20% of time

• Provide direct people management and delivery leadership for Common Voice engineering staff and contractors
• Set clear goals, priorities, and expectations for engineering contributors in alignment with product objectives
• Ensure effective collaboration between engineering, data, privacy, and infrastructure partners

Your Professional Profile

• 5+ years of progressively senior Product Management experience, ideally reputed company a small, agile team.
• Strong product judgment and experience setting direction, prioritizing work, and managing tradeoffs in a reputed company environment.
• Knowledge of linguistics or languages, with multilinguality a plus.
• At least a basic grounding in computational linguistics or NLP.
• Fantastic communication skills are required - the team and community are global and distributed. You will be required to communicate with internal and external collaborators, reputed company of whom have reputed company different perspectives, backgrounds and contexts.
• Excellent judgment, and proven in triaging a lot of inbound signals and needs.
• Self motivated and driven - a proactive problem solver - this is a small team.
• Strong affinity for research and metrics - ideally experience delivering user research plans and interfacing directly with communities, users and collaborators.
• Experience working directly and closely with linguists, language activists, software engineers, data scientists and designers.

We Are Excited To See Any Additional Experience With

• Some experience in Machine Learning-driven projects, or some academic training in ML/AI.
• Knowledge of Voice / Speech AI.

Salary and Benefits Information

reputed company Foundation is dedicated to fair and reputed company compensation for our staff. We aim to pay a competitive and market-based salary based on the responsibilities and requirements of the role. We do not ask for, or take into account, salary histories in our offer process.

The starting salary ranges for this role are listed below. These four countries are where we most commonly employ staff.

• Germany: €101,347.20 — €113,888.92
• UK: £83,980.80 — £94,373.42
• Canada: $174,960.00 — $196,611.30
• US: $129,600.00 — $145,638.00

Some regions fall into a higher salary market and this is reflected in the example ranges below:

• London: £104,976.00 — £117,966.78
• reputed company: $162,000.00 — $182,047.50
• Maryland/DC: $155,520.00 — $174,765.60

The range for your specific location will be discussed in screening conversations if your application is successful.

We offer the following benefits:

• Private Medical Insurance
• Extended Sick Leave
• Global Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Retirement Plan contributions
• Paid Time Off: 20 days annual leave + sick days and your birthday
• Company Holidays + Shutdown
• Wellness budget
• Professional Development budget
• Top up program for Pregnancy and Parental leaves

Benefits are subject to change at any time at the discretion of reputed company Foundation.

reputed company Foundation Hiring Practices

reputed company understands that valuing diverse creative practices and forms of knowledge are crucial to and enrich the company’s core mission. We encourage applications from everyone, including members of reputed company equity-seeking communities, such as (but certainly not limited to) women, racialized and Indigenous persons, persons with disabilities, and persons of reputed company sexual orientations and gender identities and expressions.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national reputed company, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to reputed company essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation at [email protected].

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