Job Architecture

Designed for Growth: Agile Job Architecture

Agile Job Architecture is a dynamic engine for growth – both for your people and the organization.

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Job Architecture

Designed for Growth: Agile Job Architecture

Agile Job Architecture is a dynamic engine for growth – both for your people and the organization.

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Though hiring across the globe was sluggish at best, internal mobility has increased 6% year over year.

Source: Global Talent Trends | LinkedIn

Building Pathways to Talent Mobility

According 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.

A New Approach to Job Architecture

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.

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of workers are aware of coming disruption in their fields and are willing to reskill to remain competitively employed.

Source: BCG

68%

of workers are aware of coming disruption in their fields and are willing to reskill to remain competitively employed.

Source: BCG

The Talent Agility Difference

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.

Workforce Strategy

We design and deliver workforce strategies that unlock growth, accelerate value creation, and drive sustained performance.

Job Architecture

We design agile job architecture that links career pathways and compensation—enabling organizations to adapt, compete, and thrive amid evolving workforce demands.

Compensation Strategy

We design performance-driven compensation strategies that align individual contribution with business growth—motivating talent and reinforcing impact.

HR Executive Search

We partner with organizations to identify and place HR leaders who accelerate talent strategy, deliver business success, and shape a workforce built for growth.

Executive Coaching

We develop purpose-driven leaders with the resilience to lead through uncertainty—turning personal strengths into team performance and organizational growth.

The Acera Experience

Integrated Strategy

Talent and compensation strategies are often approached separately within organizations, leading to confusion and ineffective outcomes. Acera Partners integrates these two strategies to unleash growth for both your people and the organization.

Experienced Consultants

Our team consists of experts across a diverse range of talent and compensation consulting. To supercharge our team’s effectiveness, we enhance our projects with leaders in change management, strategic communication, project management, and client service. This is our difference.

Collaborative Approach

Our collaborative way of working means we’re not delivering our solutions. We’re co-creating your solutions. With a team of consultants tailored to your project, we work as an extension of your organization — ensuring that you own every change that’s made.

Innovative Solutions

At Acera Partners, we get to know your organization by starting with a thorough discovery process. Only then can we help create breakthrough solutions to meet your organization’s unique needs.

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"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."

Suzanne Hough

"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."

Neeta Salvi

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."

Troy Reisner

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."

Julie Tschida Brown

EVP, Chief People and Culture Officer at Zayo Group

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