Career Ladder Inspiration · Multi-Role
Blendle's multi-role career framework
Career growth matrix for Data roles at Blendle. Covers competencies across Work, Drive, and Fit categories with 3 proficiency levels.
Company Blendle|Year 2026|Discipline Multi-Role|Tracks TBD|License
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Clone this templateLevel 1 - Operation & Execution | Level 2 - Tactical | Level 3 - Strategic | |
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Skills Skills that require no talent | Be on time, be prepared, take notes, do extra, bring energy, work moral, body language, be coachable, use 1 password and full disk encryption ;). | No description available | No description available |
Skills Basic skills | Writing, tech savvy (word/excel/mac/windows), language skills (ENG, DE, NL). Talk English. | No description available | No description available |
Skills Programming | Can understand and contribute to most data related codebases. | Constributes a lot to our most important repositories, but can also contribute and fix problems elsewhere (e.g. in core-api or BNLT). | Technical challenges are never a big problem, you understand what to use when and help others a lot. |
Skills Data tech & Set-up | Understand and use the data related tech, software and set-up Blendle uses. | Understand and use the data related tech, software and set-up Blendle uses. Come up with ideas to improve this. | Master all the data related tech, software and set-up Blendle uses. Come up with ideas to improve this. Teach and coach peers to do so. |
Skills Machine learning | Knows how to build a basic machine learning setup and run off-the-shelf models. | Has understanding of a lot of different models and learning paradigms and has experience with how to translate business problems in to machine learning solutions. | Has an excelent understand of most models and learning paradigms, easily translates business problems in to machine learning solutions and can quickly iterate to achieve state of the art performance. |
Skills Analytics | Knows how to perform analyses and visualize the results. | Can help others make decisions based on data. | Cultivates a data culture at Blendle. |
Skills Speed | Be able to keep up with the pace and show improvement. | Set the pace and keep improving. | Lightning fast, without losing quality. Help others improve their speed. Keep speed for Blendle as a whole high. |
Skills Quality | Be able to deliver high quality over long periods of time. | Be able to deliver high quality over long periods of time. Be consistent. | Be able to deliver high quality over long periods of time. Be consistent. Inspire others to do so and keep quality Blendle wide high. |
Skills Shipping | * Be able to finish a feature in time and in scope | * Help others ship their features | * Improve the way we ship features, improve the process itself. |
Skills Testing | * Write self-contained unit-tests to validate specific components of your code * Write integration tests to validate a combination of code-paths together making up a feature or product flow * Know how to integrate a project into our continuous deployment systems | * Apply a test-driven approach to your development workflow, write your tests before you write your code * Make general improvements to the test setup of a project, make it faster, more resilient, or increase the test coverage | * Keep teaching yourself new testing techniques and best practices from outside sources. * Teach others in the way of testing, help them improve their testing skills. * Drive a global improvement in the way Blendle validates its code. Work on our CI pipeline, improve our testing best practices, etc. |
Skills Review | * Look at Pull Requests from others in your team/discipline * Learn from these Pull Requests, ask any questions you have in that same PR * Point out potential bugs in the provided code change | * Become a regular Pull Request reviewer on multiple projects for which you have knowledge * Provide technical feedback on the proposed code changes, help the author improve the code quality * Keep asking questions, there is no such thing as a dumb question, keep questioning the status quo | * Contribute code to Pull Requests if you believe it makes sense and the author will appriciate the change * Be conclusive and descriptive in your decisionmaking when discussions arise in Pull Requests * Provide personal feedback to the author, help them grow, and improve their overal Pull Request quality |
Skills Pairing | Aks other to pair program | Pairprogram with other regurarly. | Invite others to pair program, think about how to get the most out of it Blendle wide. |
Skills Codebase | * Read through the code bases, know where to find what project or feature. | * Be very knowledgable on several of our projects. * Help others to find their way in those projects. | * Know the high-level architecture and communication flows between all our projects. * Know why certain choices were made, and why we should or can't change them. * Know many projects very well and help others find their way in them. |
Skills Innovations | Stay innovative and try new things. | Stay innovative and try new things. Challenge excisting set-up, techniques and solutions. | Stay innovative and try new things. Challenge excisting set-up, techniques and solutions. Inspire others to find new ways of solving problems. |
Skills Business | Understands the business processes behind the data. | Understands the business processes behind the data. Can ask useful questions about the business. | Has expert knowledge about Blendle's business processes and the market(s) in which we operate. Knows how to translate this knowledge into the right questions. |
Skills Feedback & Development | Ask for feedback, have personal goals. | Ask feedback, have personal goals. Give your peers/lead feedback. Prepare 1on1's. Lead your own development. Share your dreams. | Lead the feedback en development of yourself and others. Do 1on1's. Improve yourskills in this area. Work with HR to take this Blendle wide to a next level. Feed the MT with information about how people are doing. |
Skills Self regulation Stay happy/healthy. | Find your optimal working rythm. Implement a good system (Getting Things Done). | Improve and stick to your optimal working rythm. Improve your system (GTD) Take care of your body and mind. Help peers/team with this. Bring it up. Flag it when you see unhealthy situations. | Improve and stick to your optimal working rythm, Optimize your system (GTD) and teach others. Take care of your body and mind, stimulate others to do so. Flag and fix unhealthy situations. Implement concrete improvements for yourself and your team on this point. |
Skills Initiative | Show initiative, come up with ideas. Be proactive and selfstarting. Ask for help. | Take initiative, come up with ideas. Be proactive and selfstarting. Ask for help. Question the status quo. Challenge peers. | Take initiative, come up with ideas. Question the status quo. Make plans. Challenge all levels. Help others to take initiative. Be proactive and selfstarting. Ask for help. |
Skills Motivation | Check your own level of motivation and work on keeping it high. Find out what motivates you. | Check your own level of motivation and work on keeping it high. Know what motivates you. Know wat motivates others, help them stay motivated. | Check your own level of motivation and work on keeping it high. Know what motivates you. Know wat motivates others, help them stay motivated. Flag it when you see motivation dropping somewhere. |
Skills Contribute & share | Add value, contribute to meetings/projects. Share stuff you did or found out. | Keep adding value. Share knowlegde or skills. Always look for ways to contribute. | Add value, contribute and share knowlegde and skills. Teach others how to contribute and share. Be thought leader. |
Skills Ship, deliver, close | Focus on finishing stuff. | Focus on finishing stuff. Flag it when projects/discussions have no end. | Focus on finishing stuff. Flag it when projects/discussions have no end. Enable others to ship and are proud of the result. |
Skills Focus | Do one thing at the time and don't get distracted. | Do one thing at the time and don't get distracted. Help others focus. | Do one thing at the time and don't get distracted. Help others focus. Help Blendle as a whole focus. |
Skills Speed = habit Flexible | Remember to stay light on your feet and flexible. | Stay light on your feet and flexible. Build stuff fast without losing sight of quality. Help the team keep balance. | Stay light on your feet and flexible. Build stuff fast without losing sight of quality. Help the team and Blendle as a whole keep balance. |
Skills Data | When making a decision, always look at the data. | When making a decision, always look at the data. Stimulate others to use data as a source of inspiration. | When making a decision, always look at the data. Inspire others to make decisions based on data. Improve data use Blendle wide. |
Skills Oppertunities | Spot oppertunities and bring them up. | Spot and seize oppertunities and bring them up. Put them to good use. | Spot, seize and create oppertunities. Help other recognizing oppertunities and create space. Don't let it go to waste. |
Skills Mentality & Responsibility | Feel responsible for stuff outside your direct responsibility (role or tasks). | Feel responsible for stuff outside your direct responsibility (role or tasks). Be co-owner of problems. Take full responsibility. Make calls. | Full responsibility for a (or several) domains. Act like it by setting out plans, giving direction |
Skills Informed & Engaged | Take notice of things happening at Blendle. Respond to questions. Try to give input. | Take notice of things happening in and outside Blendle. Respond to and ask questions. Try to give input. Try to inform others and engage others. | Inform and enage others. Voice vision and strategy. |
Skills Attend & (be) present | Attend team meetings, Blendle wide meetings. | Attend team meetings, Blendle wide meetings. Give input, share your voice/ideas. Aks questions. Present. | Initiatate and lead meetings (also Blendle wide). Make them effective. Make others attend and participate. |
Skills Value, DNA, Culture | Read and understand the Blendle values. | Carry out the Blendle values. | Live and breath the Blendle values. Add to the culture: improve it (flag and eliminate flaws). |
Skills Planning, Look ahead | Think about how the things you do (or don't do) look in 3 months. Look ahead. | Think about how the things you (and your team) do (or don't do) look in 3, 12, 24 months and make proposals to your lead. | Think about how the things you do (or don't do) look in 3, 12, 24 months and make proposals to leads/teams/MT. Make plans with budget and runway in mind. |
Skills Impact | Think about how you could make the biggest impact for Blendle. Make decisions based on impact. | Think about how you, your peers and your team could make the biggest impact for Blendle Take initiative. Make decisions based on impact. | Think about how you, your peers and your team and Blendle as a whole could make the biggest impact for Blendle. Make proposals to the leads/teams/MT. Reward based on actual contribution. |
Skills Improve | Think about how you and your team could improve. | think about how you, your peers and your team could improve. Take initiative. | think about how you, your peers, your team and Blendle as a whole could improve. |
Skills Alignment | Think about if what you and your team are doing is aligned with the rest of Blendle. | Think about if what you and your team are doing is aligned with the rest of Blendle. Flag it if that is not the case. Align yourself. | Align MT, teams, peers and individuals with each other. |
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