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Building Job Architecture That Actually Works

Building Job Architecture That Actually Works

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Travicka Keaton, Senior Manager of Compensation with Monogram Foods, walks through what it actually takes to build a job architecture inside a company that grew fast without one. You will learn how long a real project takes, why salaried roles are usually sequenced before hourly and site-based roles, why manufacturing jobs are harder to level than software jobs, and how to keep executives informed without turning every week into a status meeting. The conversation also covers a practical, low-tech approach to pay equity that uses performance, company tenure, general experience, and time in grade, and why that approach matched what an expensive third-party tool produced later. If you are deciding whether to start a job architecture project, or trying to explain to leadership why it is not a pay increase exercise, this episode answers those questions directly. Chapters 02:46 – Falling into compensation without planning to 09:56 – Why job architecture comes before everything else 10:48 – How long a real job architecture project takes 12:39 – Why manufacturing roles resist standard leveling 14:44 – Sequencing salaried roles ahead of hourly and site roles 17:17 – The actual problem a job architecture project solves 19:23 – Keeping executives informed without over-reporting 22:15 – Running the project in spreadsheets with AI help 25:56 – A practical framework for reviewing pay equity 28:25 – Why managers push back on equity decisions 35:39 – Why the pay conversation matters more than the number
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