Job description

Who We Are:
Twitter is looking for an engineering leader to lead all aspects of the modeling team for the recommended notifications. The team's mission is to make sure that Twitter customers never miss the things they care about most. We build relevance and machine learning models and systems to power the core of the Twitter notifications product. Our systems evaluate candidates from nearly half a billion daily tweets to select, organize, and deliver the most personalized content to our users. The recent products and technologies built by our team have shown consistent results in driving new active user and long term retention and are some of the largest contributors to audience growth on the platform.

What You'll Do:
Join the Recommended Notifications team and lead a world-class team of Machine Learning engineers. We’re looking for a hands-on, technical manager with a passion for working on customer-facing relevance products. The ideal candidate would be equality comfortable guiding the long term roadmap of the modeling team and work with product engineering team to identify new product relevance problems.

As a Manager for Notification relevance team you will be:

• Responsible for a production large scale production machine learning pipeline consisting of offline workflows and online services
• Mentor the professional development of each direct report through personal and performance management.
• Working with your Tech lead, take responsibility for the group’s technical strategy and roadmap – creating success metrics, to measure and evaluate the performance of models and understand levers of model performance
• Work with your Product, Data Science, and EM partners to understand and incorporate customer problems into the team’s roadmap and align priorities with our overall product strategy.
• Seek diverse perspectives to drive bottom-up innovation and create consensus from all technical partners inside and outside the team (applied research teams).
• Ensure the team fully understands the goals and objectives of Twitter as a company and how their work fits into 'the bigger picture'.

Qualifications

Who You Are:

• Have a background in machine learning, ideally deep learning techniques, prediction/binary classification, decision trees. Experience with recommender systems is a plus. deep learning techniques
• Comfortable with A/B experimentation best practices and defining key metrics.
• Hold your own technically with engineers on the team and give constructive feedback on projects and ideas
• Have a sense of urgency, move quickly and ship things
• Support giving engineers the tools, confidence, and motivation they need to make decisions independently that lead to the recognition of your engineers and not just yourself.
• Strong recruiter of engineering talent and comfortable closing applicants for your team and the business

Requirements:

• BA/BS or higher in Computer Science (or equivalent work experience)
• Previously tech-led or managed a team of 5 or more engineers building ML models and systems in a production setting
• Knowledge of and experience with techniques used in data mining, machine learning, information retrieval, recommendation systems, or natural language processing.

Additional information

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.