Growth Record's three roles are additive, not a ladder. An engineering lead might be an admin who also manages three people and has their own manager reviewing them — all three at once, on one account, and none of them takes anything away from the others. Choosing to look at your team doesn't hide your own record, and being an admin doesn't grant you access to anyone's review.
That split is deliberate. The person being assessed is the least powerful party in any review, so admin access covers the framework, the people list and the workspace, and stops well short of what's actually written inside one.
The three roles
Employee is the default. Every invited person has a growth record: a self-assessment to write when a review opens, a plan built from agreed focus areas, an evidence log, and the expectations for their level, always visible.
Manager applies to anyone with direct reports. It adds the My Reports perspective — a roster of the people who report to you, and the ability to start reviews, write your side of an assessment, record an outcome, and agree a plan with each of them.
Admin owns organization-wide structure: the people list, teams, the career framework, and workspace settings and billing. What an admin can't do is read anyone's review, including their own reports'. Seeing how a review is going means being that person's manager, not their admin.
The three perspectives
The sidebar groups your access into up to three perspectives, and you only see the ones that apply to you:
- My Growth — your own record. Present for every employee, which in practice is everyone.
- My Reports — the people who report to you, and where each of their reviews stands. Present if you manage anyone.
- Organization — people, teams, the framework, and settings & billing. Present only for admins.
If you hold more than one role, the relevant perspectives sit side by side in the sidebar. Switching between My Growth and My Reports just moves between two views of the same account, not into a different one.
Who can see what
A rule that comes up often, in short:
- Your manager sees everything about your record that you see yourself, and nothing more. Something added to the manager's view of a report gets added to the employee's own view too, never the reverse.
- Admins see the framework, the roster, and who's assigned to what. They can't open a review, read an assessment, or see a plan's contents.
- Evidence is shared by default, and anything shared with you is attributed and dated. Either side can hold a new entry back as a draft first, on the same terms. See Evidence.
Reporting lines vs. teams
Who reports to whom decides who shows up under My Reports and who can review whom. Team membership is closer to org-chart bookkeeping: a team's manager becomes the reporting line for everyone in it by default, but an individual reporting line can also be set directly, independent of the team. If someone's missing from your My Reports roster, the fix is in the reporting line, not the team — see Teams and People.