So, what do you do with $35-million of venture capital when your annual burn rate is only $5-million a year? Well, if you’re Twitter, you create illogical jobs such as VIP Concierge to meet the needs of “celebrities” using your fast-growing online service.
Yup, Twitter was apparently seriously excited about hiring someone to be a “high touch point of contact” to make sure celebrities using the service are “happy, using the product effectively, etc.”
It sounded like an April’s Fool’s joke but apparently it was a real position before Twitter abruptly put the job “on hold”.
Here’s the job description and responsibilities, which are still on the Twitter site.
About this Job
We don’t have a description written for this yet, but the job is to be a “high touch” point of contact at Twitter for the burgeoning number of celebrities on the service. We want to make sure they’re happy, using the product effectively, etc. This person is probably pretty junior (it won’t pay a lot) but hopefully familiar with working with “Hollywood types.” They should be tech savvy enough to answer questions and solve basic problems (though they can fall back on our tech support). And they should definitely present themselves (and the company) well on the phone and in person. They should be proactive but not pushy. It might make sense for them to be in L.A. but to come up to SF often. Obviously this is a very sweet gig for someone. The challenge will be finding someone who is good at the schmoozing but also humble and a fit with our culture.
Responsibilities
someone that is more aligned to the Internet but is working for or is well-connected to the Hollywood publicity machine. Someone who has demonstrable expertise getting to the bigger stars of the day. One’s who fit the Twitter mold and is willing to work from San Francisco. This person could also double up as the Twitter conceirge until there is a need to split the roles
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I sincerely hope this job is a joke. Otherwise Twitter needs to hire a good surly Scottish CFO to do away with such nonsense
If Twitter can bring famous people closer to the hoi-polloi, this will be the best $40K (if that) they ever spent. You have to figure this is worth it for the publicity alone.