Profile Creator at Andela

About the Role

• The Profile Creator Specialist is responsible for ensuring that all engineers entering the Andela Talent Network have properly populated profiles that contain all relevant career information.
• You will use your research and discernment skills to confirm that all profiles closely align and adhere to our quality guidelines and will work closely with our screening and staffing teams to achieve this.
• The Profile Creator Specialist role requires an inquisitive, communicative, and adaptable mindset. We need problem solvers, creative thinkers, and people who aren’t afraid to get their hands dirty.
• If this sounds like you, keep reading - we want to hear from you! We are a fully remote company, and you can truly live anywhere while doing this job.

Responsibilities

• Once our engineers are vetted and approved for the Andela Talent Network, a Profile Creator will work with them on their profile, filling in all the technical details.
• You will be responsible for the bigger picture: ensuring that the profiles accurately reflect engineers’ skills and career trajectories while highlighting the projects they are proud of and what makes them unique.
• You will employ a variety of methods, including interviews, questionnaires, and independent research.
• In this role, you will work remotely in a distributed company and help a small team keep their quality at the highest level.
• We also expect you to contribute actively with your ideas, improve our styling guidelines, and actively contribute to the development of the team’s glossary of technical terms.
• With more experience, we expect you to become a subject matter expert on profile components, assist with the onboarding of new team members, and help the profile editing team support other projects and teams across Andela.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent in English, English Writing, Linguistics, or related field is a plus.
• A precise and aesthetic eye and attention to detail.  
• Excellent foundational knowledge in English grammar and writing mechanics.
• Ability to edit written English material to a style guide, ideally in a professional or academic setting. 
• Experience with resume writing is a plus.
• Technical and engineering terminology fluency; you don’t have to be an engineer, but speaking the language is a plus.
• Humble and willing to learn/grow. We need confident and capable people who want to help each other succeed as much as they want to help our talent succeed.
• This is a remote position that can be done from anywhere. 

Expectations
In the first week:

• Onboard and integrate into Andela.
• Learn about Andela’s existing product suite.
• Become acquainted with your area of focus, peers, and stakeholders.

In the first month:

• Focus on learning technical and engineering jargon.
• Start adding content to our existing profiles to get familiar with our environment.
• Evolve from shadowing assessment interviews to get better insights into our assessment process.

In the first three months:

• Finish training in profile creation and be able to do unsupervised profile creations.
• Fully embed yourself in your team and Contribute actively in team meetings.
• Understand Andela’s assessment processes and propose new ways to scale editing processes.
• Establish yourself as a well-known, key player within the team, and Andela.

In the first six months:

• Progress from absorbing information from subject matter experts to providing expertise yourself, actively answering questions on the Talent Network channels, and advising engineers on ways to improve and optimize their profiles.

In the first year:

• Become a subject matter expert on profile components and assist with the on-boarding of new team members.
• Help the profile editing team to support other projects and teams across Andela.

Benefits

• Fully Remote work culture - we hire globally and all of our roles are fully remote!
• Bring your own device stipend - buy your own laptop with funds from Andela
• Quarterly work from home stipends
• Flexible working hours
• Equity (as a part of compensation package)
• Healthcare, 401k / pension (US only)
• Andela Affinity Groups
• Growth & development paths
• Generous Paid Time Off, Parental Leave, Compassionate Leave
• And more to come! We're on a journey to reimagine global benefits at Andela