Living job architecture. Governed by design.
JobNav is the job profile engine inside the Payscale Intelligence Cloud — one governed source of truth that powers benchmarking, planning, and hiring.
Most companies keep two job libraries. Only one should exist.
The HRIS holds one version. Word docs and spreadsheets hold another. JobNav is the governance layer in between — one profile that syncs from your HRIS, stores classification and acknowledgements, and writes approved changes back.
- System of record — profile changes, federal FLSA, employee acknowledgements
- System of action — build, level, and govern the architecture in one place
- Stays in sync with your HRIS — pull job data in, push approved updates back
Architecture, descriptions, and classification — in one profile
One architecture. Every family. Every level.
JobNav holds every role to the same families and levels, then flags anything that drifts when the structure changes.
- Leveling templates that cascade — edit once, and every affected profile is flagged for review
- Matrix comparison across families and levels — consistency you can see, not just hope for
- AI-assisted authoring grounded in your internal structure and language
- Full audit trail and role-based approvals built into every change
Job descriptions that don’t go stale
JobNav drafts responsibilities, skills, and competencies from your governed job summary and leveling templates. Never from market data. HRBPs and managers edit in-line, approvals stay structured, and every version is captured.
- Generate responsibilities, skills, and competencies from the governed summary
- Inclusive language guidance that doesn’t block authoring
- Collaboration, approvals, and full version history in the same workflow
Classify once. Prove it anytime.
Classifying the role isn’t the hard part. Proving it later is. JobNav runs the federal exemption questionnaire in the profile, versions every determination, and ties acknowledgements to the exact version signed.
- Structured federal FLSA questionnaire in the profile workflow
- Full change history: what changed, when, and who approved it
- Acknowledgements tied to the specific profile version signed
One profile. Every downstream decision.
JobNav is the structural layer of the Payscale Intelligence Cloud — the governed profile Ascent prices, Paycycle plans, and JobNav Recruiter posts. No duplicate jobs. No re-mapping. No drift.
- Ascent — Benchmarking and Smart Price pull from the governed profile, so market matches reflect the role as it actually exists
- Paycycle — Merit cycles, budget planning, and pay equity operate on the same leveling framework HR maintains
- JobNav Recruiter — Postings generate from the approved profile — level-aligned, skills-mapped, and compliant by default
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Frequently asked questions
JobNav is the job-profile engine inside the Payscale Intelligence Cloud. Compensation and HR teams use it to build, level, describe, and classify jobs in one governed profile.
That profile is the source Ascent prices, Paycycle plans, and JobNav Recruiter posts. It replaces the split between the HRIS job file and the Word docs sitting beside it.
JobNav is where compensation and HR govern the internal job: architecture, description, federal FLSA, acknowledgements. JobNav Recruiter takes the approved profile the last mile and turns it into a pay-transparent posting inside the recruiter's ATS.
One governs the job. The other publishes it.
JobNav is the evolution of Payfactors Job Description Manager. If you used job description management inside Payfactors, that capability now lives in JobNav, with architecture, AI-assisted drafting, federal FLSA, and HRIS sync added.
No. The HRIS remains the system of record for people. JobNav is the system of record for the governed job profile and the system of action for how comp and HR build, level, and classify that profile.
JobNav pulls job data from the HRIS and writes approved profile changes back, so the rest of the organization is not working from a second library.
JobNav maps every role to a family and a consistent level, using leveling templates that hold profiles to the same standard.
When families and levels are governed in one place, benchmarking, ranges, equity analysis, and postings inherit the same structure instead of remapping titles later.
Yes, as a first draft. You can write your own job description or start from an existing one, but JobNav can also generate responsibilities, skills, and competencies from your governed job summary and leveling templates. It does not draft from market data.
HRBPs and managers edit in-line. Approvals stay structured. Inclusive-language guidance flags issues without blocking authoring. A person still signs off.
JobNav runs a structured federal FLSA exemption questionnaire on the job profile. Compensation records the determination on that same profile.
It does not replace legal review. It does not cover state wage-and-hour rules.
On the job profile, with the description, level, and acknowledgements. Not in a side spreadsheet and not in a folder outside the architecture.
The questionnaire answers, the resulting federal classification, who approved it, and when. Every later change is versioned against that history.
Yes. Acknowledgements attach to the exact profile version the employee signed, not to a later rewrite of the job.
JobNav creates a new version. The prior determination stays in history. You classify the new version and collect new acknowledgements against that version.
Yes. The form, the change history, the approver, and the signed acknowledgements live on the profile. You pull the record from the same place the job lives.
No. JobNav can be used on its own. Pairing it with Ascent means the profile Ascent prices is the same profile HR governs. Pairing it with JobNav Recruiter means postings generate from that approved profile instead of a recruiter rewrite.
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