🚀Growth isn't linear - it's an adventure!

• Everyone is different and has different passions and motivators - we believe in playing to your strengths, so you can be the best in what you do and highly engaged with where you are in your career.
• You have a choice. You can continue to grow your career and never be a people leader (it’s not for everyone) if you don't want to be one.
• The key difference between the two pathways is how you spend the majority of your time.
• Growth and progression is not about how high up the leader chain you can go, our specialist path has the majority of levelling as our People Leader path.

Growth Tracks:

🎨 Individual Contributor [IC]

• At least 60% of your time is spent on critical projects/products.
• You deliver impact through your expertise.
• This means you could be managing people and still be an IC if 60% of your time is on task/project delivery.

🧭 Leader [LDR]

• At least 60% of your time is spent developing, coaching, and leading high performing teams.
• You deliver impact through others with a focused on people development.
• This means you can still be delivering project/tasks and still be leading people if 60% of your time is allocated to developing and coaching others.

Responsible for Value Creation

• Contributing to the day to day work using their specialism to deliver impact to our customers.

Typically covers:

• Set delivery OKRs
• Develop technical capabilities
• Coach technical growth
• Provide input to managers
• Evaluate and feedback on delivery

Responsible for Capability Creation

• Building up the right capabilities and people, equipping them with the skills and tools to deliver well.

Typically covers:

• Day to day pastoral care
• Develop long term career capabilities
• Set career development OKRs
• Gather and share feedback
• Performance management

👯 How do you tell the difference between tracks on the Growth Paths?

• Leaders are still specialists in their own way and will follow the individual contributor capabilities in all other areas.