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Twitter is seeking an Engineering Manager for Birdwatch, our pilot program in a new crowdsourced/participatory approach to reducing misleading information. Birdwatch pushes the state-of-the-art in approaching misleading information on the Internet and we employ a deeply experimental, fast-moving, and iterative approach to find product solutions that work for customers.

We are looking for someone who can help our team plan and execute the development of Birdwatch, build a deep understanding of our customers’ experience, and identify opportunities to improve Birdwatch & the way we build. You’ll work as part of a cross-functional team including engineering, research, data science, design, product, and even academic experts outside the company who study the space. 

Our goal is to empower people on Twitter to create a better-informed world. You can help make it a reality.

What You'll Do:

We believe passion and personality matter. As such, we need someone who can lead diverse, smart, and driven engineers while balancing personnel challenges with business requirements. As an Engineering Manager you will:

• Mentor the professional development of each direct report through personal and performance management.

• Build and foster a team culture that is positive, encouraging, inclusive, and engaging.

• Be an ambitious source of engineering talent and be comfortable closing candidates.

• Give engineers the tools, confidence, and motivation to make decisions independently which enables them to develop and perform as highly as possible.

Our ultimate goal is to ‘ship it ’, so it’s imperative that the engineering manager:

• Owns the group’s technical strategy and roadmap and creates success metrics in close collaboration with other Engineering and Product Managers.

• Brings a strong perspective that inspires new ideas and motivates engineers to develop simple solutions to sophisticated problems.

• Works with tech leads and senior engineers to capture requirements, gut checks new feature proposals and large improvements.

• Has the technical capacity to partner with tech leads and is comfortable diving into the fray to help drive resolution in the case of bad incidents.

Who You Are:

• Passion for the problem of misleading information & creating a better informed world

• Enjoy a rapid iterative approach / the 0-to-1 experience

• Enioy working in an ambiguous space with no known product solutions, and trailblazing to build novel solutions that work

• Ability to move fast and get things done, and help the broader team do so (to enable rapid iteration on the product)

• Comfortable (maybe even excited) to work with a distributed team

• You foster strong cross-functional collaboration between Engineering, Product, Design, Research, and Data Science to develop high-quality, focused products (and inspire your team to independently initiate this same collaboration).

• You seek diverse perspectives to drive innovation and create buy-in from all technical stakeholders inside and outside the team.

• You are experienced with software engineering best practices and bring a disciplined approach to testing and driving reductions in technical debt.

• You ensure the team fully understands the goals and objectives of Twitter as a company and how their work fits into the bigger picture.

• You have experience leading engineers at all levels and you’re skilled at coaching and guiding your directs through their career development.

• You are customer focused, with the ability to offer input on high level solutions to customer problems that helps drive product roadmap.

• A successful engineering manager will communicate fearlessly to build trust. We need leaders who take active roles in shaping the future of Twitter engineering while embodying our core values. 

Qualifications

• B.S. or Masters in Computer Science or equivalent, with 5+ years of industry experience

• 2+ years of experience managing software engineering teams

• Previously managed a team of 4-8 engineers with responsibility for mobile or web client

We are committed to an inclusive and diverse Twitter. Twitter is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based on race, ethnicity, color, ancestry, national origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, veteran, genetic information, marital status or any other legally protected status.

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