To ensure the security and confidentiality of your data, it’s essential to understand the access levels for each role. Below is a detailed breakdown of permissions for each role.

Administration

Account administrator

Overview: The Account administrator has the highest access across the platform, managing all account settings except Performance.

Permissions	Access
View and manage employee data	✔ Yes
Clear bounced emails	✔ Yes
Manage account settings	✔ Yes
Create surveys	✔ Yes
Manage survey settings	✔ Yes
Manage performance cycles	No
Manage goals (new)	✔ Yes
Manage goals (classic)	No
Assign roles to other users	✔ Yes
Add survey participants	✔ Yes
Issue invitations and reset responses	✔ Yes
Export survey participants	✔ Yes
Create survey reports	✔ Yes
View all survey reports and add viewers/owners	✔ Yes
View the Action Dashboard	✔ Yes
Export survey participants	✔ Yes
Share reports	✔ Yes
Administer Skills coach	✔ Yes
Edit career paths and competencies	✔ Yes
View development reports	✔ Yes

Employee data administrator

Overview: Manages employee data without access to other parts of Culture Amp.

Permissions	Access
View and manage employee data	✔ Yes
Clear bounced emails	✔ Yes
Activate and deactivate employees	✔ Yes
Configure HRIS integrations and trigger syncs	✔ Yes
Create or manage surveys and performance cycles and associated reports	No
Manage goals	No
Access raw data	No
Request feedback	No

Surveys

Surveys administrator

Overview: Full access to create and manage all surveys and survey reports.

Note: Surveys administrators and Survey admin can export survey participants, but not with demographic data unless they also have the Employee data administrator role.

Permissions	Access
Manage account settings or employee data	No
Create surveys	✔ Yes
Manage survey settings	✔ Yes
Assign other Survey admin	✔ Yes
Add survey participants	✔ Yes
Issue invitations and reset responses	✔ Yes
Export survey participants	✔ Yes
Export survey participants with demographic data	No
Create survey reports	✔ Yes
View all survey reports and add viewers/owners	✔ Yes
View the Action Dashboard	✔ Yes
Export survey participants	✔ Yes
Share reports	✔ Yes

Survey admin

Overview: Survey admins have access to specific surveys they’ve been invited to, but they cannot create new surveys. There are two levels of Survey admin access: Overall and Support only.

Access level	Permissions	Access
Overall	Manage account settings or employee data	No
	Create surveys	No
	Manage survey settings	✔ Yes
	Assign other Survey admin	✔ Yes
	Add survey participants	✔ Yes
	Issue invitations and reset responses	✔ Yes
	Export survey participants	✔ Yes
	Export survey participants with demographic data	No
	Create survey reports	✔ Yes
	View survey reports and add viewers/owners	✔ Yes
	View the Action Dashboard	✔ Yes
	Export survey participants	✔ Yes
	Share reports	✔ Yes
Support only	Issue invitations and reset responses	✔ Yes

Survey creator

Overview: Survey creators can create new surveys and manage their settings. They are automatically designated as survey admins for their created surveys, gaining full access to survey admin features. Their access can also be restricted to specific demographics.

Permissions	Access
Manage account settings or employee data	No
Create surveys	✔ Yes

Survey HR business partner

Overview: Survey HR business partners can access the survey's reports page to see the list of reports and who has access, but they cannot preview or access the report data unless they first add themselves as report viewers. They cannot create new surveys, access the administrator reports or share existing reports.

Permissions	Access
View the survey's reports page	✔ Yes
Preview survey report data (only after adding themselves as a report viewer)*	✔* Yes
View the Administrator report	No
View the Action Dashboard	✔ Yes
Add report viewers/owners	✔ Yes
Bulk import sharing permissions	No
Create and share reports	No
Create surveys	No

Other survey roles

Survey comment replier

Overview: Can reply publicly to comments left on surveys.

Permissions	Access
Reply to survey comments	✔ Yes

Survey data analyst

Overview: Can extract raw data from surveys where Raw Data Extract has been enabled on the survey.

Permissions	Access
Access to survey raw data (if enabled)	✔ Yes
View an audit log of all raw data extracts downloaded from surveys	✔ Yes

Note: Even as a full Account administrator, you can't assign the Survey Data Analyst role to yourself. Another Account administrator on the account will need to do this for you.

Performance

Performance administrator

Overview: Manages performance cycles, including reviews and self-reflections, but cannot access employee data or manage account settings.

Permissions	Access
Manage account settings or employee data	No
Create performance cycles	✔ Yes
Configure cycle settings	✔ Yes
View performance cycles	✔ Yes
Complete reviews and self-reflections on behalf of others	✔ Yes
Create, share and view calibration views	✔ Yes
Submit performance feedback requests and share feedback on behalf of managers	✔ Yes
Manage goals (new)	No
Manage goals (classic)	✔ Yes

Performance HR business partner

Overview: Access to performance data within their assigned departments only. They cannot manage account settings and employee data or create performance cycles and configure their settings.

Permissions	Access
Manage account settings or employee data	No
Create new cycles	No
Configure cycle settings	No
View performance cycles	✔ Yes
Complete reviews and self-reflections on behalf of others	✔ Yes
Create, share and view calibration views	✔* Yes
Submit performance feedback requests and share feedback on behalf of managers	✔ Yes
Manage goals (classic)	✔ Yes
Manage goals (new)	No

* Perform HRBPs cannot view calibration views (unless shared) if the view includes performance reviews outside their scope, such as reviews from other departments.

Develop

Develop administrator

Overview: Manages aspects of employee development without accessing sensitive data.

Permissions	Access
Manage performance cycles or goals	No
Manage account settings or employee data	No
Manage surveys and associated reports	No
View development reports	✔ Yes
Administer skills coach	✔ Yes
Edit career paths and competencies	✔ Yes

Goals

Goals administrator (Goals new)

Overview: Full access to create, manage, and oversee goals across the organization, including assigning goal creators, tracking progress, and managing collaborations. Cannot create or manage the org structure.

Permissions	Access
Create goals for any group or employee	✔ Yes
View, edit and update the progress on all goals (regardless of visibility)	✔ Yes
Assign Group goal administrators to organization units	✔ Yes
Administer all collaborations	✔ Yes
Post comments on any goal	✔ Yes
View all goal reports	✔ Yes
Create/manage the organization structure	No

Group goals administrator

Overview: Can create and manage goals for specific org units (e.g., department) with cascading permissions across group and individual goals within and below the assigned group.

Permissions	Access
Create and manage goals for specific groups, e.g. department.	✔ Yes
Create and manage goals for specific group and individual goals below the assigned group	✔ Yes

Group goal creator (Deprecated)

Overview: Can create and manage goals for specific org units (e.g., department).

Permissions	Access
Create and manage goals for specific groups, e.g. department.	✔ Yes

Note: The Group Goal Creator role will not be available for new customers. Existing customers can continue using this role until they opt in to transition to the new Group Goals Administrator role. For more information on this transition, please visit our Group goal creator role deprecation notice.

Other Goal roles

Department goal creator (Goals classic)

Overview: Can create and manage goals for their assigned departments.

Permissions	Access
Create and manage goals for their assigned departments.	✔ Yes

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