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Hannah Müller· Steinbach Industrie
PinnedWe went live with the final region last month, so I finally have the distance to write this up honestly. Three years, 34,000 employees, 19 countries. What worked: Starting with…
Isla Ferreira· Kestrel Aerospace
Mid-sized logistics company in Poland, about 1,300 employees. Our framework has an individual track and a management track that begins at level 5. We have 64 team leads with…
Samir Delaney· Silverline Media
I work for a provincial government agency in Canada with about 2,100 employees. At any time roughly 160 people are in acting assignments one level up, with acting pay, and a fair…
Samir Delaney· Silverline Media
Semiconductor design house in the Netherlands, about 900 employees, 70% of them engineers. Our individual contributor ladder currently stops at Principal, which is equivalent to…
Julia Ibrahim· Steinbach Industrie
Manufacturer of building materials in Germany and Austria, about 4,700 employees. A reorganisation this summer merged two regions, and as a result 23 managers now have roles that…
Victor Ueda· Independent
We are a Danish medical technology company with about 2,200 employees in the Nordics, Germany and the US. Our new framework has eight levels on two tracks and the full criteria…
Elif Alvarez· Kestrel Aerospace
Software company, US and India, about 1,600 employees. Our titles are tied to grades, so a 'Senior' or 'Lead' in the title means a specific grade. Over the past 18 months the…
Ximena Hoffmann· Meridian Health Systems
I work in HR at a UK university with about 2,900 professional services staff. Pay is set by a nationally negotiated spine and our grades are determined by a long-established…
Ewan Walsh· Aurora Hospitality
I joined a Swedish industrial group last year to lead reward for South America, about 1,750 employees in Brazil. Global is rolling out a catalogue of 380 jobs with standard…
Victor Ueda· Independent
We are a Nordic engineering consultancy, roughly 6,500 people in 14 countries, on a single global framework of ten levels since 2023. From day one country leaders asked for…
Liam Chen· Pinehurst Foods
After an audit could not reconstruct why about a fifth of our roles sat at the level they did, we introduced a decision record. I'm at a regional bank in the US Southeast, about…
Ben Haddad· Tidewater Utilities
I have now worked on job architecture at four employers, most recently a telecoms group in Spain and Portugal with about 8,000 people, and each time the same thing happened. The…
Dalia Lindqvist· Silverline Media
Consulting engineering firm in the UAE and India, around 1,900 people. Our framework has clean internal titles by level, such as Engineer II and Senior Engineer. Client-facing…
Mateo Rasmussen· Independent
Most of what is written about job architecture assumes a professional workforce. I work for a grocery retailer in the Netherlands and Belgium with about 21,000 employees, and 80%…
Wesley Keller· Kestrel Aerospace
Public university in New Zealand, about 3,200 professional staff. We finished mapping everyone to a new seven-level framework in August and committed, in the consultation with the…
Nina Vargas· Steinbach Industrie
A cautionary tale from a software and services company in India, about 3,900 employees in Pune, Hyderabad and Chennai. Leadership wanted something visible for employees quickly,…
Petra Dubois· Meridian Health Systems
We're a UK-headquartered industrial software company, about 2,100 people, and in March we completed the purchase of a 340-person business in Poland and the Czech Republic. They…
Lena Lindqvist· Pinehurst Foods
I manage reward operations for a pharmaceutical distributor in Brazil and Argentina, about 5,600 employees and 740 distinct job descriptions. We used to run a full review every…
Victor Ueda· Independent
There is a lot of enthusiasm for skills-based everything, so here is what happened when we tried it. We are a professional services firm in Singapore and Malaysia, about 2,800…
Ben Haddad· Tidewater Utilities
After reading several hundred appeals and promotion cases at a German automotive supplier of about 12,000 employees, I've concluded that most disputes about levels are really…
