Job Description Template

Purpose

Provide a consistent starting structure for defining a role before recruitment under the Hiring process.

Write the role around outcomes and actual responsibilities. Remove sections that are not relevant instead of filling them with generic language.

[Role Title]

Role Summary

In 2–4 sentences, explain why the role exists, what it owns, and the primary value it should create.

Reports To

[Role/manager]

Team / Department

[Team/department]

Employment / Engagement Type

[Full-time / Part-time / Internship / other approved type]

Work Arrangement

[Office / Hybrid / Remote, location, and applicable working arrangement]

Key Outcomes

What should a successful person in this role accomplish?

[Outcome]
[Outcome]
[Outcome]
[Outcome]

Responsibilities

[Responsibility]
[Responsibility]
[Responsibility]
[Responsibility]

Required Capabilities

Focus on capabilities genuinely required to perform the role.

[Capability / skill]
[Capability / skill]
[Capability / skill]

Preferred Capabilities

Include only useful differentiators, not artificial barriers.

[Preferred capability]
[Preferred capability]

Experience / Education

State only requirements that are genuinely necessary or strongly relevant. Do not automatically require a degree or arbitrary years of experience when demonstrated capability can establish role fit.

[Requirements]

Tools / Domain Knowledge

[Tool/domain]
[Tool/domain]

How Success Is Evaluated

Link to the applicable role-success/career-level/performance framework where one exists rather than recreating company KPI definitions here.

[Link / role-specific success expectations]

Hiring Assessment

Identify how the hiring process should evaluate the critical capabilities for this role.

Interview focus:
Portfolio/work sample:
Practical/technical assessment:
Other verification:

Use the Interview Scorecard Template for structured evaluation.

Approved Hiring Parameters

This section is for internal hiring preparation and may be removed from a public job posting.

Target start:
Approved compensation/budget:
Hiring owner:
Required approvers: Team/Department Lead → People Operations/HR → CEO final approval
Notes: