Senior Technical Talent Advisor

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Join the team as Twilio’s next Senior Technical Talent Advisor

About the job

As a Senior Technical Recruiter for EMEA, you will be the strategic talent partner behind the expansion of Twilio’s core engineering and product teams. Managing full-cycle recruitment across various locations in EMEA you will act as a trusted advisor to senior R&D leaders. You won't just fill roles; you will leverage market intelligence to advise on regional talent pools, and champion diverse hiring pipelines. In this high-impact role, your expertise will directly shape the engineering culture and capabilities of Twilio’s premier EMEA hubs.

Responsibilities

In this role, you’ll:

• Be a strategic talent advisor and trusted thought partner to engineering and product leadership by proactively leveraging talent intelligence, extensive market knowledge, and external talent insights to drive innovative hiring approaches and influence the strategic direction of searches.
• Independently own end-to-end recruitment for complex and specialized R&D (Product and Technology) roles, using your business acumen and recruiting expertise to architect and deliver on strategic recruiting plans to identify, proactively source, and hire qualified talent.
• Design and scale engineering recruiting programs that institutionalize a high technical talent bar, ranging from targeted industry outreach to delivering structured interview frameworks that mitigate bias and ensure equitable hiring outcomes. Orchestrate a high-signal candidate journey and positive experience by removing process friction and ensuring consistent, values-aligned communication across all interview stages.
• Collect, analyze, and use talent insights and internal data to proactively set expectations and drive calibration with hiring teams. Advise and guide leaders on defining success profiles, prioritization, location decisions, and critical trade-offs based on skills-informed assessments. Align interviewer panels on assessment criteria to help drive the best possible hiring outcomes for Twilio.
• Build and maintain trusted, collaborative relationships with VP-level R&D (Product and Technology) leaders, HRBPs, and other cross-function partners (Total Rewards, Finance, TA Ops) and TA COEs.
• Use AI, tools, and technology to stay up-to-date on technical recruiting best practices, emerging sourcing techniques, interview innovations, and workplace trends to raise the bar for hiring quality talent.
• Communicate and negotiate effectively and diplomatically across complex offer structures that include equity, using data and strategic influence to achieve desired business results.
• Act as a trusted partner and strong contributor to the overall talent acquisition strategy.