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Platform Strategy & Operations (S&O) team partners with leaders in Engineering, Product, Design & Research to focus on the critical areas that enable organizational efficacy by leading strategy planning, processes for effective execution, inter/intra organizational alignment and enduring change.

What’s the role:

Twitter’s purpose is to serve the public conversation, and our top priority is fostering thriving, healthy, global conversation on the service. People come to Twitter to see and talk about what’s happening in the world, and we want them to be able to do so from anywhere, on any device, and in whatever languages they speak. 

In this role, reporting to the S&O Director for Twitter Platform, you will be responsible for supporting engineering leadership in defining the platform strategy, driving portfolio planning and orchestrating engineering roadmap reviews.  The role will require cross pillar collaboration to standardize common processes and establish best practices to improve development velocity and productivity.  The role will frequently involve working directly with the Head of Platform and the senior leadership team.

What You’ll Do:

• Support Platform engineering leadership by keeping the rhythm of execution humming and removing any obstacles that may arise along the way

• Orchestrate the overall strategic planning process for Platform Engineering and Product teams, including product roadmaps, goal setting, and portfolio planning

• Build a successful and healthy team: review, design, and execute on improvements to org structure, find knowledge and skills gaps and help address them, design optimal workflows, and align internal processes

• Represents the Platform team as key liaison in coordinating with other internal planning functions (e.g. Finance, HR, etc.)

• Develops content and drives communication across other pillars and rest of the company, communicating regular product updates, key results, and consolidating strategic plans for review with the Twitter executive team and the Board

• Lead short-term deep dives and cross-functional project teams to structure and execute analyses needed to develop recommendations

• 6+ years of work experience in a strategy/operations/corporate development role, preferably in engineering or product management at a tech company or strategy consulting 

• Demonstrated problem solving experience in providing business insights and recommendations from data sets, both individually or in a group setting

• Proven ability to track, prioritize, and drive multiple concurrent projects to success

• Lead and influence across multiple levels and multiple functions of an organization, as well as, being a trusted advisor to leadership

• Outstanding communication skills with the ability to flex communication style to different audiences

• Thrives in ambiguity and in driving influence and clarity in highly matrixed organizations

• Experience working with remote/distributed teams

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

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

Twitter is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to applicants with mental and/or physical disabilities. If you think you may require an accommodation for any part of the recruitment process, please send a request to: [email protected]. All requests for accommodations are treated discreetly and confidentially, as practical and permitted by law.