Principal Technical Talent Advisor

About the job

At Twilio, we empower the world's most innovative builders—and as a Principal Technical Talent Advisor for R&D, you are the engine behind that mission. Operating at the highest level of individual contribution, you will identify and secure the top-tier engineering talent that shapes the future of our platform across NAMER and LATAM. This is a unique, hybrid role for someone who loves both the thrill of the hunt and the strategy of the build. You will balance a specialized requisition load with leading high-impact talent initiatives. By championing operational excellence, leveraging deep market intelligence, and mentoring your peers, you’ll elevate how we hire and who we hire.

Responsibilities

• Be an expert-level talent advisor and strategic thought partner to engineering and product leadership, balancing immediate hiring needs against the broader regional and organizational workforce plan. You shape talent acquisition strategy at a regional or functional level, translating overarching business goals into comprehensive, forward-looking workforce strategies.
• Act as a role model and mentor within TA and the People Partnerships teams- a bold disrupter who earns respect by challenging assumptions, influences without authority, champions change, helps navigate your team through ambiguity, and seamlessly connects the dots and sees around corners.
• Proactively use market analytics, talent intelligence, and internal data to model talent scenarios, coach senior leaders and hiring managers on market trends and hiring practices, and strategically steer or shift search strategies based on market realities. Advise and guide senior 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.
• Independently own end-to-end recruitment for the most complex and high-stakes R&D (Product & Technology) searches, using your business acumen and recruiting expertise to architect and deliver on strategic recruiting plans to identify, proactively source, and hire qualified talent. Communicate and negotiate effectively and diplomatically across complex offer structures that include equity, using data and strategic influence to achieve desired business results.
• Design and scale in-region and global engineering recruiting programs and projects 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. Architect a high-signal candidate journey and positive experience by removing process friction and ensuring consistent, values-aligned communication across all interview stages.
• 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.