Massive Job Opportunities at Andela 2019

• Career Opportunities at Andela

• Andela is a network of technology leaders dedicated to advancing human potential. We help companies build high-performing distributed engineering teams by investing in Africa’s most talented software developers. Based in NYC, SF, Lagos, Nairobi, Rwanda and Kampala, Andela is catalyzing the growth of tech ecosystems across the African continent while solving the global technical talent shortage.

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  • Open Jobs
    1. Creative Designer
    2. People Operations Associate
    3. Product Design Intern
    4. Ruby Software Engineer
  • Method of Application

  Creative Designer

  
  
  • Job TypeFull Time  
  • QualificationBA/BSc/HND  
  • Experience4 years
  • LocationLagos
  • Job FieldICT / Computer   Media / Advertising / Branding  
   
  About the Role
  
  • The role is for an excellent storyteller that not only creates visually and high impact designs but intuitive and functional ones.
  • You’ll be an integral part of designing the future of Andela’s online and offline marketing platforms.
  • A background in shipping full-spectrum marketing campaigns and the gamut of marketing materials to a national and/or global audience and driving impactful results is a huge plus.
  • Work directly with the Digital Marketing Manager, to ensure quality content is produced to drive the goals of the marketing team and ensure high conversions across Africa by collaborating with the rest of the Creative Communications teams.
  Responsibilities
  
  • Design for consistent and seamless experiences across mediums that build our business and connection to our target audience across all Andela Locations.
  • Own the visual communication of the Andela brand across all digital channels and 360 Media.
  • Translate the Andela vision and values into brand elements that are cohesive, modern, and inviting.
  • Create brand assets such as logos, iconography, illustrations, color palettes, patterns and other design elements when needed. Work on a range of ambitious projects including, but not limited to, UI designs, content graphics, social media graphics, event collateral, print materials, internal collateral, infographics, storyboards, and illustrations.
  • Help the team produce its best work by clearly communicating brand guidelines regarding typography, color, layout, and art direction.
  • Ensure Andela's visual design and brand consistency in all assets by producing high-quality visual designs and illustrations or assisting the team with rules and templates to follow.
  • Stay informed about competitors, best practices, existing initiatives, past projects, and target audience research. Use data about the talent pool experience and research across all countries to improve designs across all digital channels.
  • Collaborate with senior leaders, marketing peers, and talent managers to translate vision, feedback, and ideas into workable sketches, wireframes, and full visual designs.
  Qualifications
  
  • A portfolio that showcases your design work (including a few large scale projects), as well as your design process, strategic thinking, and planning behind it.
  • Clear and strategic process for developing a brand marketing strategy
  • A history of shipping high-powered and visually rich marketing campaigns
  • Experience working on creative for social media channels (Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, etc.)
  • Have outstanding organizational skills and experience building marketing systems as well as the ability to work on multiple projects simultaneously
  • Work with stakeholders to ship brand marketing materials and campaigns that impact business goals
  • Articulate why specific creative decisions were made to stakeholders
  • Minimum of 4 years of working design experience (in-house experience preferred)
  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience (Graphic Design or a similar area of study is preferred)
  • A thorough understanding of designing for digital platforms and advanced proficiency with Adobe Creative Cloud and Sketch/XD
  • Exceptional skills and standards for typography, color, layout, storytelling, and detail in the design.
  • Strong communication and writing skills, experience with content strategy, and understanding marketing business goals.
  • Motivated to create excellent design work, share and learn with your design team, and driven to always be improving.
  • Track record of creating exceptional materials for 360 Media (TV, Print, Digital Ads, Social media, etc)
  • User interface design skills, producing designs in High fidelity mockups.
  Benefits & Compensation
  
  • Full-time compensation
  • Full medical coverage
  • Opportunity to work with the brightest minds on the planet
  • Oh, and a chance to change the world!
  
  
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  People Operations Associate

  
  
  • Job TypeFull Time  
  • QualificationBA/BSc/HND  
  • Experience2 years
  • LocationLagos
  • Job FieldHuman Resources / HR  
   
  About the Role
  
  • Andela is seeking a People Operations Associate to work with the People team to build our organizational capacity and ensure we are creating an environment in which our staff can realize their full potential.
  • To be successful in this role, the right candidate will bring knowledge and experience in providing People generalist support for Andela Lagos across key functional areas, including employee relations and engagement, onboarding, operations and HRIS expertise.
  Responsibilities
  Service Delivery & Information:
  
  • Coordinate all People Team requests made through the People helpdesk.
  • Ensure day-to-day operations of People-related functions are addressed in a timely, efficient, and proactive manner. The objective is to deliver transactions in alignment with agreed HR service standards specifications. Maintain a response timeline in line with our Helpdesk SLAs.
  • Manage the collection of all employee documentation and ensure that they are adequately filed for background checks and audit reviews.
  • Coordinate and manage all activities relating to employee background/ reference checks.
  • Ensure that employee folders are up to date with the relevant employee documentations.
  • Data Integrity: ensure data integrity of all onboarding document from new hires.
  Pre-onboarding:
  
  • Coordinate and ensure that all pre-onboarding tasks are effectively executed with little or no blockers to employee induction.
  • Collaborate with multiple stakeholders to ensure that employee welcome packs and documentation are ready before onsite onboarding commences.
  Employee Engagement:
  
  • Onboarding:
    • Create and update an onboarding process document to guide the on-boarding process of new hires.
    • Manage the onboarding of new hires to ensure a seamless integration and optimise new hire productivity. Maintain an on-boarding rating of 8/10.
    • Run 30, 60 and 90 day check-ins for new hires and use this data to enhance the onboarding process from time to time. Maintain a satisfaction rating of 7/10 for each check-in period.
    • Collaborate with global onboarding leads in the drafting and creation of the Andela global onboarding processes, templates and presentation decks.
    • Identify process improvements regarding onboarding at least once bi-annually.
  • Support and propose suggestions that would improve employee engagement within the organisation.
  ACAPS:
  
  • Support and own the processes regarding the Andela Counselling and Psychological Services (ACAPS).
  General People Team support:
  
  • Drawing up necessary employee letters; e.g. promotion, visa, etc.
  • Proofread HR documents including audits, marketing information, and handbooks.
  • Handling the printing and scanning of People and employee documents into the People Team drive.
  • Handle other tasks as directed by the People Manager (Ops) and/or Director.
  Qualifications
  
  • BS/BA degree in Human Resources, Social Sciences or its recognized equivalent with at least 2 years of relevant experience.
  • Exceptional written and oral communication skills.
  • Personable, able to comfortably and pleasantly deal with a variety of people.
  • Strong customer service skills.
  • Working knowledge of office equipment such as photocopier, scanner and printer.
  • Good understanding of office management procedures.
  • Critical thinking, analytical mindset and problem solving skills.
  • Good knowledge of Google suite.
  Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
  
  • Ability to work with others and to develop and maintain compatibility among staff, subcontractors, and recipients of assistance.
  • Report to supervisor on variances and status on regular basis.
  • Work independently with initiative to manage high volume workflow.
  • Interact with diplomacy and tact and follow-up on requests in a timely and efficient manner.
  • Must exhibit high levels of professionalism, integrity and ethical values at all times.
  • Ability to maintain confidentiality for sensitive Human Resources issues or projects and use judgment to execute duties and responsibilities.
  • Record keeping, report preparation, filing methods and records management techniques.
  • Accurately enter and retrieve data and information using the available work tools.
  • Working knowledge of in-country employment regulations, e.g. Nigerian labor/employee relations statutes and capacity to apply them to Andela Nigeria.
  • Ability to intervene with all levels of staff, partners and contractors, individuals from diverse cultures, and the public with diplomacy and firmness.
  • Excellent written, oral and interpersonal communication skills with ability to work as a team member.
  • Objectivity and the ability to apply People policies and regulations in a fair and consistent manner.
  • Ability to plan and prioritize own work under tight deadlines, as well as to work on own initiative and as a member of a team.
  • Attention to detail with a high degree of accuracy.
  • Must be a nice person - we have a strict no jerks policy at Andela
  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!
  
  
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  Product Design Intern

  
  
  • Job TypeFull Time  
  • QualificationBA/BSc/HND  
  • LocationLagos
  • Job FieldICT / Computer   Internships / Volunteering  
   
  About the Role
  
  • We're looking for a talented, highly-motivated Product Design Intern to join the Apprenticeship Product Team in our Lagos office.
  • As a Product Design Intern, you will work on multiple products and gain experience on the job within a 6-month period.
  • You will gain valuable exposure working closely with Product Managers, Product Designers, Engineers and Product Stakeholders.
  Roles and Responsibilities
  You will work with the Product Designer to:
  
  • Create high-quality UX/UI designs
  • Work closely with engineers to ensure proper implementation of final designs
  • Work cross-functionally with product managers and other stakeholders to arrive at the best possible solutions with your designs
  • Contribute to the overall strategy and decision-making about product direction
  • Create flows, prototypes, and high-fidelity visuals for product features
  • Conduct user research & usability testing.
  Qualifications
  As a Product Design Intern at Andela, you’d be a great fit if you have:
  
  • An understanding of what makes Design functional in building products
  • Some experience using any of these tools; Sketch, XD, Photoshop, Figma or InVision Studio
  • Good communication skills & a proactive learner
  • The ability to effectively engage with product end-users
  • A design portfolio that you are proud to share with us.
  EPIC Values Alignment:
  
  • Demonstrable commitment to the learning & development of people and technology
  • The ability to learn new things fast enough to amaze your friends and family.
  Interested?
  
  • If the above sounds like an exciting role to you, please tell us why you believe you’re a good fit and we’ll be in touch.
  Benefits & Compensation
  
  • Monthly Stipend
  • 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!
  
  
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  Ruby Software Engineer

  
  
  • Job TypeFull Time  
  • QualificationBA/BSc/HND  
  • Experience2 years
  • LocationLagos
  • Job FieldICT / Computer  
   
  Locations: Nairobi, Kenya; Kampala, Uganda; Lagos, Nigeria
  Type: Full-Time
  Experience: Software Engineer
  
  About the Software Engineer Position
  
  • As a Ruby Software Engineer at Andela, you will primarily work as an engineer for one of Andela’s global partners, predominantly located in the U.S. or Europe.
  • You will commonly work on global teams comprised of Andela engineers and your partner’s in-house development teams.
  • Andela Software Engineers are professional, collaborative, and skilled at completing full feature development, taking initiative, and always continuing to grow personally and professionally.
  • They have both excellent technical skills and strong team skills, and can effectively operate in a geographically distributed team environment.
  Key Responsibilities
  The specific responsibilities of a Ruby Software Engineer include:
  
  • Defining and delivering software that meets and exceeds the expectations of your team, managers, and partners;
  • Developing readable, testable, and maintainable code to spec;
  • Commitment to continued technical and professional growth;
  • Interfacing with partners to understand their business, goals, and visions for products supported by your Andela Team;
  • Lending your knowledge and positive approach to your Andela community of engineers.
  Qualifications & Characteristics
  As the ideal candidate for this role you:
  
  • Have at least 2 years of professional experience as a Software Engineer, writing code for web applications, data initiatives, core services, or mobile products
  • Are proficient in writing code in Ruby and enjoy learning new languages, frameworks, and technologies:
  • Familiarity with SQL or NoSQL stores
  • Exposure to CI/CD pipelines and tools
  • Experience writing test cases
  • May have a four-year degree in Engineering, Computer Science or a related field from an accredited university
  • Exposure to Agile methodologies
  • Enjoy collaborating, problem-solving, and being part of a team environment
  • Have a vibrant personality and exceptional communication skills (English; verbal and written)
  • The ability to work with a high degree of autonomy and limited supervision
  • Have the ability to build rapport and communicate with individuals from diverse cultural backgrounds
  • Strongly motivated by our social mission of training 100,000 young Africans in the next 10 years.
  What Opportunities Exist at Andela
  
  • Work with global companies to accelerate your career;
  • Ongoing learning, development, and mentoring opportunities;
  • A large community of passionate Andela engineers.
  
  Method of Application
  Use the link(s) below to apply on company website.
  
  • Creative Designer
  • People Operations Associate
  • Product Design Intern
  • Ruby Software Engineer
  Note: We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.