Business Development Manager, Developer Platform

  • Full-time

Company Description

Twitter is what’s happening and what people are talking about right now. For us, life's not about a job, it's about purpose. We believe real change starts with conversation. Here, your voice matters. Come as you are and together we'll do what's right (not what's easy) to serve the public conversation.

Who We Are

The DevPlatform BD team’s role is to uncover opportunities that help more developers generate meaningful value from the Twitter API. We work cross-functionally to turn developer feedback into marketable solutions and partner externally to experiment and validate hypotheses via high-touch strategic partnerships.

What You’ll Do 

  • Work cross functionally with different teams to understand the needs of developer segments and identify ways in which third party partnerships can help them succeed on the Twitter platform. 

  • Perform market and ecosystem due diligence, opportunity sizing, partner qualification and evaluation for lighthouse partnerships 

  • Execute lighthouse partner deals that enable experimentation with different product and business terms

  • Translate partner feedback into product roadmap recommendations

  • Work on multiple high priority, cross-functional initiatives simultaneously. 

  • This is a project-based role, where you’ll have the opportunity to work across domains, developer segments, and products depending on the need.

Job Description

Who You Are

This role requires detailed coordination across multiple simultaneous initiatives with exemplary documentation. You have excellent time-management and long-term planning skills and have the ability to work on many ongoing initiatives at once independently.  

  • You are a strategic problem-solver that gets excited about solving complex challenges

  • You are energized by initiatives that are in uncharted territory, where you are responsible for uncovering opportunities in places we haven’t looked before

  • You are able to communicate complex ideas to broad and senior audiences across diverse cross-functional stakeholder groups.

  • You confidently handle a wide variety of competing priorities.

  • You can operate effectively in a dynamic, constantly changing environment.

  • You are flexible and comfortable switching between areas of focus. 

  • You are curious, humble, and a team player

  • Preferred experience working with developers or developer platforms.

Qualifications

  • BA / MBA preferred 

  • 3-5 years of industry experience, with work in Business Development, Strategic Partnerships, Account/Partner Management, or Business Consulting.

Additional Information

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Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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