Agile Job Architecture is a dynamic engine for growth – both for your people and the organization.
Get in TouchAgile Job Architecture is a dynamic engine for growth – both for your people and the organization.
Get in TouchAccording to Gallup, replacing an employee can cost up to twice their salary—a significant drain on resources, momentum, and morale. In response, organizations often hire externally, bringing in talent that’s untested and not always attuned to the organization’s values or ways of working.
Smart organizations don’t wait for turnover to strike. They build internal mobility strategies that retain critical talent, reduce hiring costs, and develop the skills their business actually needs.
At Acera Partners, we help organizations design integrated career pathways that align employee growth with business goals. When people see a path to grow and a future within the organization, they stay longer and deliver more.
Today’s organizations need more than static role descriptions—they need a flexible, forward-looking framework that adapts as the business evolves. That’s where agile job architecture comes in.
At Acera Partners, we help organizations build adaptive structures that define roles clearly while allowing room for growth, skill evolution, and cross-functional movement. Our approach ensures job architecture isn’t a one-time exercise; It’s a living system that reflects your strategy, supports equitable advancement, and enables talent to grow in sync with the business.
When job architecture evolves with the needs of both the organization and its people, it becomes a powerful lever for competitive advantage.
Let’s design the structure your people—and your organization—need to grow.
Acera Partners helps organizations grow by aligning people, strategy, and structure. We design agile workforce strategies, compensation systems, and job architecture that drive retention, unlock internal mobility, and fuel business performance.
By coaching executives to lead through ambiguity with clarity and purpose—and placing HR leaders who
champion agile talent strategies—we help turn strategy into sustained performance.
We design and deliver workforce strategies that unlock growth, accelerate value creation, and drive sustained performance.
We design agile job architecture that links career pathways and compensation—enabling organizations to adapt, compete, and thrive amid evolving workforce demands.
We design performance-driven compensation strategies that align individual contribution with business growth—motivating talent and reinforcing impact.
We partner with organizations to identify and place HR leaders who accelerate talent strategy, deliver business success, and shape a workforce built for growth.
We develop purpose-driven leaders with the resilience to lead through uncertainty—turning personal strengths into team performance and organizational growth.
"Carrie Magee is a true partner, consistently bringing forward thought-provoking insights tied to business outcomes."
"I would highly recommend working with her and her team if you want to drive value creation in your talent and pay practices."
CHRO, Manhattan Associates
"Carrie is so knowledgeable about talent and competitive compensation strategies."
"She is also incredibly insightful and responsive to the challenges I face. I would hire her and her team in a heartbeat to help my organization optimize its talent and pay strategies."
CFO, Global Fortune 100 Automotive Technology Company
"It was a pleasure to work with the Acera team. I greatly appreciated the level of expertise, insights and patience that they brought to our organization."
"Within my former company, we were scattered in terms of compensation philosophy but through Acera’s leadership, together, we built a strong compensation philosophy that aligned with our organizational values and goals. By having a detailed compensation strategy we were able to engage with our people to explain how their contributions fit into the organization and how and why the employee is rewarded. We also gained reliable insight into the market value of our roles as they exist today and how that will continue to evolve through future growth and funding. This will help us make better talent and financial decisions going forward."
Chief Financial Officer at Phunware (NASDAQ: PHUN)
"I have known Anne for over 5 years and she has been a collaborative partner for me across multiple organizations—a go to."
"She takes time to truly understand our business situation and human capital needs and approaches every opportunity with openness and creativity. She models excellence and ensures that every deliverable meets high-quality standards and expectations."
EVP, Chief People and Culture Officer at Zayo Group