Korn Ferry Architect

Improve organizational performance with a new job architecture

Modernize your job evaluation process.

In a world where disruption and market turbulence change the work we do and how work gets done, the ability to understand, measure and align work with talent has never been more critical. Organizations need to keep pace in a constantly changing world with a robust and flexible career job architecture—supported by innovative technology to accelerate and inform job design, job leveling and talent mobility through roles.

Korn Ferry Architect streamlines job design, work measurement, and related talent processes. It enables you to design, evaluate and change jobs quickly and efficiently and gives you a comprehensive view of where jobs sit in your organization.

What we do

We want to help you bring order to this chaos. Korn Ferry Architect is revolutionizing how work is designed, measured and delivered.

  • Integration

    Connect directly to your job evaluation process, working seamlessly to analyze and plan your reward and talent management programs

  • Speed

    Create job descriptions 5x faster and job evaluations in almost no time

  • Efficiency

    Design a job once for multiple purposes, including reward, talent acquisition, career pathing and development, and employee reviews

  • Budget friendly

    Dramatically reduce the cost of maintaining job descriptions and evaluations with a completely innovative approach

  • Job architecture

    Create order out of chaos with a global framework that supports consistency across the business

How we help you

Korn Ferry Architect is an automated work measurement solution that uses a ready-made, customizable job architecture of pre-leveled job responsibilities and best-in-class Success Profiles. Leveraging our extensive experience in job analysis and research, our Success Profiles combine everything we know about individual, team, and organizational success to show you what “good” looks like for roles.

Design and evaluate jobs

  • Determine exactly where your roles sit in your organization's job architecture and compensation structure
  • Access the details of the full job evaluation line for each job, capturing changes as jobs evolve and adjusting levels accordingly
  • Automatically link all materials and processes associated with job changes, including pay grades, interview guides and assessments
  • Deliver a transparent and consistent view for job roles across all functions and geographies
  • Visualize your jobs in an organization structure matrix, using a set of powerful reporting tools
  • Develop a career architecture providing a visible career path from a current role to any chosen destination

Streamline job design, work measurement and related talent processes

  • We use our job architecture and work measurement framework expertise along with the Korn Ferry Hay Guide Chart-Profile Method our world-class job evaluation system
  • Our leading competency framework informs a holistic framework of defining and measuring talent

Keep better control over reward costs

  • Provide a foundation for fair and effective compensation and reward programs by directly connecting to your job evaluation process
  • Compare like jobs within and across functions to support internal pay equity analysis and company inclusion strategies
  • Leverage work measurement and job leveling to identify over-graded jobs that are driving pay escalation

Let us be part of your success story

Contact us and see how our consulting services can help you achieve your business goals.