Most leveling frameworks get built, announced, and then quietly never referenced again. This toolkit gives you everything you need to build one that becomes the backbone of how your organization hires, reviews, promotes, and recognizes people.
From the Helia Library — based on the article Fair Roles, Fair Compensation, from our Coffee Chat with Rachel Kleban.
What’s Inside
01 — DIY AI Job Level Framework
A step-by-step guide for using AI to build a leveling framework tailored to your organization, complete with prompts for every stage of the process. Use this first — it walks you through defining purpose, collecting your culture’s DNA, building the grid, and customizing it for your context.
02 — Guide to Rolling Out Your Leveling Framework
A structured walkthrough for introducing your new framework to your team — from preparing managers to hosting individual conversations. Use this once your framework is built, to make sure it actually lands and gets used.
03 – Helia’s Sample Job Level Framework
Our actual Job Level Framework with success criteria for roles from Associate all the way to Executive. Steal anything that’s applicable to your org!
When Resources and Templates Aren’t Enough
These tools will help you build and roll out a solid leveling framework on your own. What they can’t do is help you navigate significant performance-related conflict, customize for a complex org structure, or build out the manager training, communication plan, and talking points alongside you. If you’re doing this for the first time with a larger team — or if you’ve tried before and it didn’t stick — that’s usually where having a thought partner makes a real difference.
If You Want Help With Leveling Frameworks
Nina Jacinto builds leveling frameworks for organizations that want something thoughtful, fair, and actually usable.
She’s a good fit if:
- You’ve been putting this off because it feels too complicated or too “corporate.”
- You want a framework with anti-bias research genuinely baked in
- You need the rollout support, not just the document
- You want something that will actually get used
Connect with Nina!
Not sure Nina‘s the right fit? Talk to Helia directly!
About Rachel
Rachel Kleban has been in HR longer than she wants to admit — from retail to tech to building her own company. She’s that rare combination of deeply practical and refreshingly direct: the person who can tell you exactly where you are, AND exactly what it takes to get to the next level.
