What are the responsibilities and job description for the Director of Experience Sourcing position at Twitter?
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.
We are experiencing unprecedented growth here at Twitter. To effectively support this growth, our Talent Acquisition Team is growing rapidly and will need to operate differently to attract, recruit and retain top diverse talent. We are on a quest to be the best talent acquisition team in the universe. This starts by hiring forward thinking, motivated people who bring a unique way of thinking to tackle people's challenges. We are building programs and processes from scratch and need team members who have proven success doing this type of work in a dynamic environment. Twitter’s mission is to give everyone the power to create and share ideas and information instantly, without barriers.
We are experiencing unprecedented growth in our Engineering, Product, Design and Research (EPDR) organization as we enter our teenage tech years. To effectively support this growth, our Technical Recruiting Team must grow rapidly and operate differently to attract, recruit and retain top diverse, technical talent. We are on a quest to be the best talent acquisition team in the universe. This starts by hiring forward thinking, motivated people who bring a unique way of thinking to tackle people challenges. We are building programs and processes from scratch and need team members who have proven success doing this type of work in a dynamic environment.
What You'll Do
As the Director of Technical Sourcing, you will lead an organization of roughly 4-5 Sourcing Managers and 20 technical sourcers supporting EPDR while maintaining a culture of excellence through guidance, mentorship and career development. You will build and execute strategies to identify and attract diverse candidates for our technical client groups by collaborating with People Team colleagues, as well as with hiring managers, to critically assess talent markets. You will design and craft research plans to map a wide range of senior, specialty, technical and other candidate populations and support sourcing teams as they thoughtfully engage prospective candidates to better understand their experiences, interests and motivations. You will measure the impact of sourcing methods in a rigorous, data-driven manner to drive recruiting process improvement.
Who You Are
You are a true coach that can lead and evolve a distributed technical sourcing team, building a culture of growth and development and driving team performance and engagement.
You understand the true meaning of inclusion and diversity and its importance in hiring for your team and for the technical organization.
You think creatively to build inclusive talent sourcing strategies to ensure that your team helps Twitter to hire a more diverse set of outstanding talent.
You develop innovative and organized candidate sourcing strategies using multiple channels including referral generation, sourcing campaigns, talent branding efforts and other creative channels to support hiring goals.
You utilize data and metrics to continuously improve our sourcing strategy and approach and to analyze impact.
You engage and partner with executive level stakeholders as the recruiting SME on market trends, sourcing metrics, operational processes, systems and tools.
You are open to experimenting; fail quickly, learn and adapt with the goal of getting to better processes, strategies and tools to optimize results.
You have deep knowledge of the talent and competitor landscape and a strong understanding of the market to enhance our sourcing strategies.
You provide strong partnership to hiring managers and recruiting teammates to develop and adapt sourcing strategies and processes to deliver on strategic business hiring priorities.
You thrive in a changing environment and are adept at navigating ambiguity.
Requirements
12 years experience as a Sourcing Manager with a demonstrated track record of delivering effective sourcing strategies and technical talent pools that contribute to achieving hiring goals
8 years of experience managing managers with distributed teams
Proven track record of utilizing a data-driven approach to building talent pipelines and innovating
Ability to build strong partnerships with leaders at all levels
Passion for developing, coaching and leading people
Strong communication, analytical and organizational skills
Experience working in organizations that have undergone significant growth, change and/or international expansion
Open to travel periodically (post COVID-19)
Additional Information
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.