Understanding roles within Culture Amp is essential for effectively managing your organization's account. Roles help control access and permissions, ensuring secure data handling and efficient task delegation.
Culture Amp uses a module-based permissions system, allowing administrators to assign access levels across key platform areas (Surveys, Performance, Goals, and Employee Data). Additional scoped and task-based roles provide finer control.
Tip: Explore the detailed feature breakdown to see the specific access and permissions associated with each role.
Roles Overview
Category | Role | Overview |
Account roles | Account Administrator | Full access to all account settings, surveys, goals, and employee data management (except Performance). |
| Employee Data Full Permissions | Manages employee data and HRIS integrations without access to other modules. |
Surveys roles | Surveys Full Permissions | Full admin access to all surveys and survey reports, excluding account and employee data settings. |
| Surveys Limited Permissions | Read-only access to survey reports (with some ability to add viewers/owners) but no survey creation or admin rights. |
Survey-level roles | Survey Creator | Can create new surveys and automatically gains admin access to the surveys they own. |
| Survey Comment Replier | Can publicly reply to comments left on surveys (when enabled). |
| Survey Data Analyst | Can extract raw data from surveys (if enabled). Cannot be restricted to specific surveys or demographics. |
| Survey Admin (Per Survey) | Admin access to specific surveys they’ve been invited to. Can be set to Overall or Support-only access. |
| Report Owner (Per Survey) | Full access to view specific survey reports and receives notifications and reminders to take action. |
| Report Viewer (Per Survey) | View-only access to specific survey reports shared with them (no notifications). |
Performance roles | Performance Full Permissions | Manages all performance cycles, including reviews, self-reflections, and calibration views. |
| Performance HR Business Partner (HRBP) | Restricted access to performance data within assigned departments; cannot create or configure cycles. |
Performance cycle-level roles | Collaborator | Can view and comment on manager reviews for specific employees during a performance cycle. |
| Calibrator | Participates in calibration sessions to ensure fair and consistent ratings. Can be given either ratings preview or read-only access. |
Development roles | Develop Full Permissions | Manages aspects of employee development, including viewing reports and administering Skills Coach, without access to sensitive performance data. |
Goals roles | Goals Full Permissions (Account-Level) | Can create, manage, and oversee all goals across the organization. Cannot create or manage the organizational structure. |
| Goals Full Permissions (Scoped) | Has full permissions to manage goals, but access is limited to specific groups (e.g., departments or teams) with cascading access to all goals in those groups. |
Note: The Group Goal Creator role has been deprecated and can no longer be assigned to new accounts.
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