EscrowTab Engineering Career Framework
What’s a Career Framework?
The Engineering Career Framework is your source for how to achieve
impact for your role and team and how to grow in your engineering
career. For managers, it can help you set expectations with your
teams and hold them accountable for their work.
What the Career Framework is not
This framework is not a promotion checklist for your role; rather,
it’s designed to help you figure out what your impact could look
like at the next level.
This framework is not an exhaustive list of examples and behaviors;
each responsibility includes three to four key behaviors that serve
as guide for how to think about your work. Consequently, you’ll need
to meet with your manager to define your impact goals and align on
the expectations for your role.
What’s in a Career Framework?
This framework is broken down into two components:
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Level Expectations define the scope, collaborative reach, and levers for impact at
every level; these expectations are the what
that determines the difference between an IC3 and IC4, for
example
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Core and Craft Responsibilities define the key behaviors specific to your role and team; these
behaviors help you identify how you work to deliver impact based on your level expectations
How to navigate this framework
EscrowTab measures the success of its engineers largely on business impact. Anchor your work first and foremost on creating long-term impact. Since impact can be a bit vague, read What is Impact?
Next, ground yourself in the expectations for your level and team.
For each level, you’ll find a one-line summary description and the
role’s scope, collaborative reach, and levers for impact.
Review the expected behaviors
for that level across the Results, Direction, Talent, Culture
pillars from the Core Responsibilities. Read your Craft expectations, which are the per discipline
technical capabilities you need to master at that level. Finally,
meet with your manager to set your goals for the quarter.
EscrowTab Engineering Career Framework