Product Design and Research Manager of Recruiting

Job Description

Who We Are:

To effectively support Twitter’s growth, our Technical Recruiting Team needs to grow rapidly and operate differently to attract, deliver, and retain top diverse, technical talent. Additionally, we are on a quest to be the best talent acquisition team in the universe which starts with hiring forward thinking, motivated people who bring a unique way of thinking to tackle people challenges. We are building many programs and processes from scratch and need team members who have a solid foundation of success in doing that in a deeply dynamic environment. Won’t you #JoinTheFlock and be at a place where you will #LoveWhereYouWork!

Twitter is looking for an experienced Product Design & Research Recruiting Manager to drive hiring for top UI/UX talent for all of Twitter. You will develop and execute a hiring strategy for the Product Design & Research organization. You will work closely with the broader HR & Recruiting team, plus interconnected client groups, to truly understand the hiring needs and priorities. You have led, mentored, and guided a team of technical sourcers and recruiters through the entire recruiting life cycle while also working closely with leaders to drive a healthy recruiting culture. You will build strong, respectful relationships and help elevate Twitter’s employment brand to a highly competitive level - not only for your client groups but more broadly as well.

Who You Are:

• You are a true coach. You will manage a team of roughly 4-6 technical recruiters and sourcers supporting Twitter’s Product Design & Research organization. We want you to provide guidance, mentorship, and career development to your team.

• You let the magic happen. :) You bring to life innovative recruiting strategies to support the growing needs of the business. You are open to experimenting; fail fast, learn and adapt quickly with the goal of getting to a new and better way of recruiting.

• You work with senior Product Design & Research leadership to actively identify and quantify, through workforce planning and tracking, the hiring needs for their organization.

• You are able to think big picture when it comes to the Twitter recruiting strategy, with the ability to break that down into smaller landmarks for the team.

• You are a catalyst for the group’s hiring strategy and road map, and create success metrics with our other recruiting leaders.

• You keep the business up to date throughout the cycle working with Recruiting Strategy & Operations and People Analytics to present that information in a way that is accurate and usable by your partners.

• You bring the external talent and competitor landscape in to ensure that our decisions and strategies around talent acquisition are informed by the best possible information.

• You communicate fearlessly to build trust. You bring a strong perspective that inspires change and motivates recruiters to develop simple solutions to complex problems.

• You have experience supporting global/distributed organizations.

Qualifications

• 7-10 years of relevant technical recruiting experience including specific UI/UX design recruiting experience at consumer-focused tech or media companies, or design agencies.

• 2+ years of recruiting leadership experience, including building recruiting functions and teams from the ground up

• Proven track record of delivering creative solutions for measurable diversity recruiting outcomes

• Ability to build strong partnerships with leaders at all levels of the organization

• Genuine passion for developing and leading people

• Strong communication and organizational skills

• Proven track record of delivering on hiring goals

• Ability to build effective recruiting strategies that contribute to the team’s hiring goals

• Experience in organizations that have undergone significant growth, change, and/or international expansion

• Ability to travel periodically (post COVID-19)

Additional Information

Twitter is experiencing unprecedented growth with its Technical Recruiting organizations as it enters its teenage tech years. We have a great platform, passionate users, and a very bright future.

This is the best place you have ever worked. Ever. Twitter is the window to the world. Our mission is to give everyone the power to create and share ideas and information instantly, without barriers. We believe the open exchange of information can be a compelling force for good in the world, and have built Twitter to be the real-time public platform for authentic voices, conversations, and ideas.