Career Development at Bob W
As Bob W grows, so does our team. Bobstars are a team of highly motivated self-starters — people who think outside of the box and make things happen. Our people are proactive. That’s why we wanted to make roles, opportunities, and development simple. Creating a career development framework gets all current and future Bobstars on the same page when it comes to designing a Bob W career they love.
Bob W’s People Mission
Great ratings are kind of our thing. So a 5-star company culture where everyone feels professionally fulfilled, fairly compensated, and engaged with their team and work is a priority.
Creating that culture starts with our values. We prioritise radical transparency and pure meritocracy. We work together to be our best selves and own up to our mistakes. Our growth comes from effort, learning, and achievement — not politics. You excel at your career because of the work you put in, not because of how long you’ve been with the company.
Career development framework
What Bobstars needed was a clear path for growth and the expectations on how to move up — and around — as we scale. So, we delivered a framework. We didn’t redesign the wheel with our approach, but it’s exactly what you’d expect from us: a clear, actionable career development framework and compensation philosophy.
We have clear career tracks for individual contributors (IC) and people managers (M) in each department. Each career track has development levels. Each level has defined skills and expectations.
The other benefit of this structure — transparency in compensation. We use an industry-leading salary benchmarking dataset linked to each department and level. You can expect a competitive salary based on what you bring to the table — plus you’ll have insight into what your career aspirations mean for your income.
This sets up transparent and straightforward conversations about development and compensation at Bob W. A process that gives ownership to individuals for their development and helps managers support their team members in their career goals.
Our thinking
Career development is not a straight track from individual contributor to people manager, at least not for everyone. People work differently; they’re driven by different aspirations. We’re providing career paths for Bobstars who are set to pave their way to management and those who’d rather hone in on their individual contributor specialties. You decide your path.
Our Career Development Framework shouldn't be treated as a GPS. No framework can provide an exact route for your career, but it can point you in the directions available to you based on company structure, your interests, and your professional development.
This framework is not a promotion checklist either. Box-ticking is not the approach to take to develop and advance your career. You’ll almost certainly be doing important things that aren’t in the framework — they count too!
Career development starts with you
Our framework is like a compass guiding you in your career map with you in charge of setting the destination.
Bob W is a rapidly expanding company, but career growth takes on many shapes, sizes, and directions. At the centre of it all is personal development. This starts with your skills. They will be your greatest asset and take you where you want to go.
The framework will help you lead the process and map out the plan with your manager. The map for everyone to review where they are, to reflect on where they’d like to be, and to understand what skills to develop to get there.
Your career is not a to-do list
As easy as life would be if we were just told what to do, it wouldn’t be very fun or exciting. Remember that old saying, “it’s not the destination, it’s the journey”? Part of feeling professionally fulfilled and really enjoying your work is learning from it. Yes, our framework maps out skill and behaviour expectations at each level, but we don’t expect you to mark each one off to move forward. The way you work and your interests will evolve and it’s how you contribute that counts.
The same goes for your skills. Like your way of working, skills need time to develop. So you won’t demonstrate every skill for your level on day one, or even in month one. This is why the framework lists a core set of skills and behaviours so that they can be applied to all roles to work as a guide, not a checklist.
Making sure you’re on the right path
Twice a year Bobstars have growth check-ins to see where they stand on their journey. If your mission is progressing within a level, know that the skills and behaviours are ambitious. They’re our way to challenge ourselves — but don’t let them throw you off. Bobstars are constantly pushing themselves to be better. But we know we’re all a work in progress.
Bob W celebrates differences. We’re all on different paths with different career goals. We all work differently. Career development is not a straight path from individual contributor to manager (read: not everyone wants to be a manager). Maybe you’d like to switch departments entirely and start on a different path. That’s ok — let’s map it out together. We expect to see some Bobstars to blast through levels, some to develop into leaders, and others to reinvent their professional ambitions entirely. The number of paths we expect to see with our new framework is limited only by the number of Bobstars we have on the team.
Master your career development at Bob W
Our framework is all about transparency. It is a map of roles, titles, and levels at Bob W, which provides the groundwork for two-way career conversations for managers and team leads. But even before you become a Bobstar, it helps assess seniority during the hiring process and how you should be paid according to your role and level. Beyond personal development, our framework is the blueprint that shows all of us how we contribute to Bob W now and in the future.
Building a career you love isn’t always easy, no journey worth taking is. If you’re curious to see what you’re capable of, motivated to learn, open to feedback, and driven to finish what you start Bob W is here with the tools and opportunities you need.
We won’t hand you a career GPS, but we will guide you on a career path of your own making.
Ready to join us? Check out our open positions.