VP of Engineering- Messaging - Twilio Inc

Employment Type: Full-Time

Posted on: Nov 16, 2020

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Because you belong at Twilio.

Twilio is more than just an API - it’s a communications platform that empowers developers and brands to build the world’s most innovative consumer engagement solutions.

Who?
Twilio is looking for a VP of engineering for its flagship messaging product who lives the Twilio Magic and has demonstrated the ability to:

1. Partner with the senior executive team, product leaders, and sales management to build, scale, and continuously innovate messaging products.
2. Lead and grow a world-class engineering team in the US, Estonia, Sweden, and Columbia.
3. Be a leader of a critical part of Twilio’s senior engineering team and contribute to Twilio’s overall engineering platform strategy.
4. Organize and coordinate engineering processes and cross-team engineering efforts between the messaging team and the rest of the company.
5. Coach teams daily to operate effectively in a multi-team environment and manage through direct reports to drive the teams to set and complete key objectives.
6. Guide teams through tech choices to deliver resilient, highly-available, and scalable services.

What?
You have:

1. 15 years of hands-on engineering management experience, preferably delivering a highly scalable service with billions of daily transactions (ad systems, billing systems, communications systems, etc.).
2. Experience managing and growing teams of 200 people across geos.
3. A proven track record of balancing long-term critical thinking with tactical execution of multiple development plans.
4. High-growth technology company experience, ideally in a platform company that has scaled to hundreds of millions of users.
5. Highly analytical with the ability to translate between strategic business decisions and their quantitative implications.
6. The ability to think critically and objectively; excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to make quick decisions based on business demands.
7. Rigorous and great organizational skills, comfortable with ambiguity.
8. The ability to distill complex issues into structured frameworks and concrete action plans.
9. Excellent communication and social skills, ability to be personable yet persistent.
10. A proven track record of meeting business targets.
11. Proven experience in building and launching complex platforms at scale.
12. Extensive experience providing product direction to meet customer needs.

Why?
Twilio’s innovative SaaS and Connectivity products are transforming how businesses and customers communicate with each other. As the leader of our billing & identity platforms, you will own the continued development of a transactional infrastructure supporting a rapidly growing business.

Where?
This position will be located in our office at 375 Beale Street in San Francisco. You will enjoy our office perks: catered meals, snacks, game room, ergonomic desks, massages, Wednesday dinners, bi-weekly All Hands, and more.

About Us
Millions of developers around the world have used Twilio to unlock the magic of communications to improve any human experience. By making communications a part of every software developer’s toolkit, Twilio is enabling innovators across every industry — from emerging leaders to the world’s largest organizations — to reinvent how companies engage with their customers.

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