Engineering Recruiting Director at Andela

Locations: Cairo-Egypt, Kampala-Uganda, Kigali-Rwanda, Lagos-Nigeria, Nairobi-Kenya

About the Role

• We are seeking a transformational, strategic and innovative human to lead and oversee global talent acquisition, operations and analytics for software engineering.
• This is a highly visible role, reporting into the VP, Talent Development, partnering with leadership enterprise-wide and critical to the execution of our long-term business strategy. You will be responsible for optimizing the global talent acquisition strategies, brand building, process improvement and growing the capabilities/efficiencies of our Engineering Recruiting team.
• You will shape the future of talent acquisition by scaling our high volume technical talent acquisition org - from hundreds of hires to thousands per year. Andela recently surpassed the exciting milestone of 1,900 Andelans (1200+ software engineers) globally, and plans to double over the next year - our Engineering hiring team will drive much of that growth with you as its Leader.

Key Responsibilities
Commercial and Team Leadership:

• Scale a high-performing engineering/technical recruiting organisation - focussed on hiring technologists across Africa
• Lead the Engineering Recruiting team to hire high quality talent, hitting set targets on time in line
• Drive initiatives that inspire an insight driven approach to talent acquisition effectively at all levels of the organization across the uniquely cross-cultural Andela environment.
• Create and manage annual and quarterly operational planning process; working collaboratively with cross functional leaders.

Business Strategy:

• Partner with business leaders to set and drive strategy, goals, process, and metrics.
• Partner with business management to determine workforce planning, talent development strategies with a focus on high quality, cost effectiveness and timely execution.
• Develop and execute a competitive talent strategy that will ensure that the business attracts and hires the top-most talent in the industry.
• Establish a comprehensive digital marketing strategy that drives talent acquisition and brand recognition for Andela
• Anticipate emerging talent requirements and proactively developing solutions to meet them and/or head off short-term critical talent shortages.

Scaling Engineering Recruiting:

• Plan and deploy the infrastructure and architecture of our global recruiting engine.
• Manage Andela’s newly developed technical sourcing engine, focussed on talent mapping and passive technical candidate search.
• Oversee and scale Andela’s Engineering recruiting team leveraging several experienced Engineering recruiting managers.
• Scale out Andela’s Engineering Recruiting Analytics/Operations group.
• Design diverse career paths & growth opportunities for the Engineering recruiting team.

Change Management:

• Leading and growing the existing team to build out on their capabilities
• Provide direct support and coaching to your team as they help their direct reports through possible transitions and strategy changes
• Ensure quality is priority at all times and enable your team to keep this at the top of their minds

Here's a Bit of Who You Are

• You care deeply about quality and people
• You are a futuristic thinker who’s excited to work in a high powered environment
• You are fluent in high volume talent acquisition, shifting demands, executive level stakeholder engagement and strategic leadership.
• You have a proven track record in leading high-performing, high-volume talent acquisition groups and driving cross-functional initiatives.
• You have at least 8 years experience across recruiting and other related talent acquisition/HR roles with significant experience leading large teams.
• You are bringing on board, rich experience working in high-growth, fast-paced environment and have served as a member of global leadership teams in rapidly scaling businesses.
• You are a process oriented & data driven leader; passionate about to fixing complex operational challenges allowing for greater scalability and global impact.
• You are a structured, logical, and creative thinker with an ability to dissect a problem using a critical approach and iteratively test solutions.
• You are a hands-on data driven leader; prior use and ability to articulate effective methods of leveraging tools like Looker, Tableau, Stata, Hubspot, Salesforce etc.
• You possess strong verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to present clear, well-thought out recommendations.
• You are able to produce articulate and persuasive cross-functional leadership-level presentations of strategic initiatives.

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!