Company description:

Twitter, Inc. (NYSE: TWTR) is the best and fastest place to see what’s happening and what people are talking about all around the world. 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.

Company Highlights

• Founded in 2006

• Headquarters in San Francisco, CA

• 70% of users are international

• 7000+ employees globally

Why Regulatory Compliance?

Our Regulatory Compliance is part of Twitter’s Trust & Safety organization. The Regulatory Compliance group focuses on building key backend and user-facing product experiences that support our efforts to comply with global content moderation standards. This team will be working to build scalable, sustainable and well thought through solutions to often complex problems. This work will be done in close partnership with our policy, legal, and operations teams, as well as our Health team which focuses on protecting and promoting the health of the public conversation. 

Job description

You will lead engineering teams who are focused on Regulatory Compliance. Working with the Legal, Governance and Policy teams, you will ensure that Twitter meets its global legal obligations while working to make Twitter a safer and more secure experience for its end users. We want Twitter to be the best place for people to have authentic conversations. In this role, you will have global reach to ensure that Twitter considers both legal and cultural norms across the globe.

The Regulatory Compliance organization is being reimagined to include multiple full-stack engineering teams that will create infrastructure and features for Twitter on Android, iOS and Web. These teams impact hundreds of millions of people, which brings with it interesting product and technical challenges at that scale. We’ll be relying on you to keep development lightweight and agile, make data-driven decisions, and release with high quality and velocity. Come be a part of our team!

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 leader 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

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. 

• You foster strong cross-functional collaboration with Backend, 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’ve led a complex, multi-team, high dependency product initiative / engineering organization. 

• You have experience growing, hiring and coaching engineering managers and Tech Leads. You have experience leading engineers at all levels 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 help drive product roadmap.

Qualifications

• B.S. or Masters in Computer Science or equivalent, with 8+ years of industry experience

• 5+ years of experience managing software engineering teams

• Previously led an organization of 15+ engineers (and managers) and successfully delivered on business objectives. 

• You are familiar with standard software engineering methodology, e.g. unit testing, code reviews, design documentation.

• You have experience in software development and executing using agile / scrum methodologies and visual collaboration tools (to support remote teams)

Preferred

• Experience with Lean engineering practices such as Devops / DORA, Story Mapping, Event Storming, etc.

• Experience working with teams across geographies and functions

Here’s all the legal good stuff:

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.

This job is also eligible for participation in Twitter’s Performance Bonus Plan and Equity Incentive Plan subject to the terms of the applicable plans and policies.

Twitter offers a wide range of benefits to U.S.-based employees, including medical, dental, and vision insurance, 401(k) program with employer match, generous time off for vacation, sick time, and parental leave. Twitter's benefits prioritize employee wellness and progressive support to our diverse workforce.