# Job Architecture

> Create job architecture — families, levels, and role profiles — that enable fair pay, career paths, and clear expectations. Use when leveling roles, building career frameworks, or aligning titles and scopes.

- Skill: `itsual/job-architecture` (Agent Skill)
- Install (CLI): `npx skillmds@latest add itsual/job-architecture`
- Raw SKILL.md: https://api.skillmd.com/api/skills/itsual/job-architecture/raw
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- Works with: Claude Code, Claude.ai, OpenAI Codex
- Category: Coding & Dev Tools
- Author: itsual (https://skillmd.com/u/itsual)
- Updated: 2026-09-21
- Page: https://skillmd.com/skills/itsual/job-architecture

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# Job Architecture

## Overview

Job architecture is the skeleton of people systems: what jobs exist, how they relate, and how people progress. It underpins compensation, mobility, and performance expectations.

## When to Use

- Creating or repairing level frameworks
- Title inflation control
- Career path design
- Pay structure foundations

## Core Practices

- Define job families and disciplines
- Establish level criteria (scope, impact, complexity, leadership)
- Write role profiles that distinguish levels clearly
- Align titles to levels consistently
- Connect architecture to compensation bands
- Govern exceptions so the system stays credible

## Principles

- Ambiguous levels create politics and pay inequity
- Architecture should enable mobility, not trap people
- Perfect granularity is less valuable than consistent use
- Revisit as the org scales and roles evolve

## Verification

- [ ] Level criteria are written and applied
- [ ] Titles map to levels consistently
- [ ] Managers can explain progression between levels