Director, Engineering Experience at Andela

About You

• This is anything but your standard “HR Business Partner” role. ​You’ll be the leader and guardian of our engineering population. ​ From performance and productivity, community to culture, this is a challenging role with high expectations.
• The ideal candidate will have a proven track record of meaningful experience in a strategic HR Business Partner role in a challenging and changing environment.
• Your knowledge and experience are both broad and deep from employment law and best practices to talent management. Experience with design of engagement strategies preferred.

Responsibilities

• Core accountability for engineering retention metrics and key engagement scores
• Design and enforce best practices for how your team builds trusted relationships and influences decision makers on matters related to engineering experience.
• Manage and lead a team of 6+ HR business partners, their objectives, priorities, trade offs, risks and escalations
• Design and implement strategies to effectively navigate organisational change for our engineers
• Collaborate with partner engineering (Delivery), Staffing and Engineering Growth to optimize the holistic career journey for engineers as they progress with Andela.
• Provide actionable feedback to Andela’s leadership team on all aspects of engineering experience for continuous scale and improvement.

Qualifications

• Have a strong track record of problem solving and leveraging data to inform decisions
• Genuine belief in bringing your full self to what you do every day, see “work” as a calling and a passion
• Comfortable facilitating executives, coming to the table with a point of view able to balance the needs of Andela, our engineers and our partners
• Comfortable negotiating and managing expectations, influencing up, challenging thoughtfully
• Creative self-starter who prides themselves on their grit and resourcefulness
• Exercise sound judgment and discretion, exceptional ethical leadership
• Strong balance of optimism and pragmatism
• Detail orientation with excellent organisational, prioritisation and multitasking skills
• Demonstrated ownership and accountability for long term projects through execution and measurement of success

Benefits & Compensation

• Full-time compensation
• Full medical coverage
• Breakfast, lunch and snacks provided daily
• Beautiful working environment
• Opportunity to work with the brightest minds on the planet
• Oh, and a chance to change the world!