{"slug":"define-role-success-profile","name":"Define Role and Success Profile","family":"Hiring System","version":"0.1.0","status":"draft","note":"draft reference — not a fitted standard","summary":"Turn an approved workforce need into a clear, job-related definition of the outcomes, context, capabilities, and evidence required for success.","purpose":"Give sourcing, assessment, compensation, selection, onboarding, and later performance management one coherent definition of the role.","steps":[{"sequence":1,"name":"Confirm the workforce need","purpose":"Anchor the role in a real business need before describing a person."},{"sequence":2,"name":"Define successful outcomes","purpose":"Describe what the role must accomplish before listing credentials or traits."},{"sequence":3,"name":"Describe the operating context","purpose":"Make the environment, constraints, interfaces, and enabling conditions visible."},{"sequence":4,"name":"Identify differentiating capabilities","purpose":"Define the behaviors and capabilities that distinguish effective performance in this context."},{"sequence":5,"name":"Classify requirements","purpose":"Prevent convenient proxies from becoming unjustified barriers."},{"sequence":6,"name":"Design the evidence plan","purpose":"Define how the next processes can obtain comparable evidence for each important criterion."},{"sequence":7,"name":"Review, approve, and publish the profile","purpose":"Create one controlled definition consumed by every downstream hiring process."}],"connections":[{"direction":"upstream","processName":"Approve Workforce Need and Headcount","processSlug":"approve-workforce-need","trigger":"Workforce need approved or provisionally authorized"},{"direction":"downstream","processName":"Establish Compensation Range and Employment Parameters","processSlug":"establish-compensation-range","trigger":"Draft profile ready for cross-functional review"},{"direction":"downstream","processName":"Open and Source the Role","processSlug":"open-and-source-role","trigger":"Role success profile approved"},{"direction":"downstream","processName":"Assess and Select Candidates","processSlug":"assess-and-select-candidates","trigger":"Selection design begins"},{"direction":"downstream","processName":"Onboard the New Hire","processSlug":"onboard-new-hire","trigger":"Offer accepted"}],"plannedConnections":[],"measures":[{"name":"Role-profile cycle time","definition":"Elapsed time from confirmed role-design mandate to profile approval.","cadence":"Per role; reviewed monthly"},{"name":"Criteria evidence coverage","definition":"Material criteria with an approved evidence method divided by all material criteria.","cadence":"At approval"},{"name":"Downstream revision rate","definition":"Opened roles requiring material profile revision after downstream work begins divided by all opened roles.","cadence":"Quarterly"},{"name":"Profile adoption","definition":"Required downstream artifacts linked to the approved profile version divided by all required artifacts.","cadence":"Per role"},{"name":"Early outcome alignment","definition":"Structured post-entry review of whether priority role outcomes remain valid and observable; not a causal claim about the process alone.","cadence":"At 90–180 days"},{"name":"Artificial barrier rate","definition":"Proposed required attributes removed or reclassified because no job-related rationale could be established.","cadence":"Quarterly"}]}