Job Description Templates for 50+ Roles

This hub holds free, copy-ready job description templates for 50 roles, grouped by job function. Each one has an about-the-role paragraph, 6 to 8 responsibilities, requirements, nice-to-haves and a what-we-offer outline. Pick the closest role, then edit the requirements to match your team.

Every template comes with notes on how to customize it and how to evaluate candidates against it. Roles are grouped by function below, each group with a one-line note on what its templates stress. If your role is not listed, start from the nearest one or generate a custom JD with the free AI generator. The Cognitive turns any of these into hiring: it sources candidates from ~900M public profiles and interviews them against the description.

How to pick and adapt a template

  • Match the work, not the title: if your "product engineer" writes backend code all day, start from the backend template.
  • Cut the requirements to the 4 or 5 a person must have on day one, and move the rest to nice-to-haves.
  • Name the seniority, location and working pattern in the first paragraph so the wrong applicants self-select out.
  • Use the same must-haves later as the screening criteria, so the JD and the interview judge the same things.

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Software and web engineering templates

Stack, scope of ownership and the kind of systems the engineer will build, from web apps to smart contracts.

Infrastructure, reliability and security templates

On-call expectations, the platforms in use and the security or reliability outcomes the role owns.

Data, analytics and AI templates

Tools and languages, the decisions the data feeds, and whether the role builds models, pipelines or dashboards.

Product, program and project management templates

Which teams the role coordinates, what it decides on its own and how its delivery is measured.

Design and user research templates

The product surfaces, research methods and portfolio evidence each design role should show.

Engineering leadership templates

Team size, reporting line and the technical and hiring decisions a VP of Engineering or CTO owns.

Sales and account management templates

Segment, deal size, quota ownership and where in the funnel each sales role works.

Marketing and growth templates

Channels owned, budget responsibility and the metrics each marketing role answers for.

Customer support and call center templates

Channels covered, shift patterns and the quality and volume measures support roles are held to.

Healthcare templates

Required licences and certifications, care setting, shift pattern and the clinical or data systems in use.

Finance, risk and compliance templates

Regulatory scope, reporting duties and the modelling or control work each role carries.

HR, recruiting and operations templates

Employee lifecycle duties, hiring volume and the HR systems each people role runs.

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