Roles and permissions in 15Five

Can manage account settings for their direct reports. Is responsible for reviewing Check-ins and overseeing Best-Self Review® cycles for their direct reports, and has visibility into their direct reports' Check-ins, reviews, and objectives. Can also manage Check-in questions for their direct reports and pull reports based on hierarchy and follow permissions.
Help Center article 💡: Change a person's direct manager

To see who your current account owner is, add an account owner, or change an account owner, please contact our Support Team. 

Can add/deactivate users, assign user permissions, manage company, group, and user settings/permissions, manage feature settings (including turning on/off features), manage billing information, set up and manage integrations, create/modify Check-in questions, and pull reports. You can see a list of your company's account admins here.
Help Center article 💡: Add or remove an account admin

The HR administrator role is only relevant if demographic attributes are enabled for your company. This is the only role that can manage or edit demographic attributes and run reports that contain demographic information. Only account admins can be appointed as HR admins.
Help Center article 💡: Manage HR admins

Can manage account billing preferences and plans, view past invoices, and designate a company's billing contact. Account admins have billing admin permissions by default; this role is reserved for people who need to have access to billing settings, but shouldn’t have full account admin rights.
Help Center article 💡: Manage 15Five billing admins

Can manage group settings and Check-in questions for group members. Only managers or account admins can be appointed as group admins.
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Someone who is responsible for filling out and submitting a Check-in.

A person whose direct reports are responsible for filling out Check-ins. Reviewers are responsible for reviewing their direct reports Check-ins. They can also pull Check-in-specific reports based on hierarchy and follow permissions.

A person's "followers" are people who can view and interact with their Check-ins. You can add followers to view your own Check-ins, or request to follow another person's Check-ins.

Can access and view the Check-ins of everyone in their organization, with the exception of answers marked as “private.” To make someone a global viewer for Check-ins, either an account owner or an account admin must reach out to 15Five’s Support Team and request this permission to be added to that person’s account. Everyone in your company can see a list of global viewers in your company. This permission is typically reserved for HR teams, co-leaders, and administrators.

Someone who participants in a 1-on-1. Can create, schedule, and end 1-on-1s and use the 1-on-1 agenda.

• Account admins can create, edit, or assign objectives for anyone
• Managers can create, edit, or assign objectives for their direct reports
• Employees can create, edit, or assign objectives for themselves.

Additional options are available in Objectives feature settings.

Additional managers are people other that a review cycle participant's direct manager that have the ability to write a manager review about them. One default additional manager and up to five cycle-specific additional managers can be appointed for any given review cycle participant. Additional manager feedback is also included in calibration sessions, and may be included in performance ratings formulas, depending on Best-Self Review® feature settings. Default additional managers can also be granted visibility into all past reviews of the person they're an additional manager for in Best-Self Review® feature settings.

Help Center article 💡: Add an additional manager for a participant

Review viewers are non-managers that have read-only permission to a participant's review results. Review viewers are helpful in change management, dotted-line, and matrix scenarios. A person can be appointed as a cycle-specific review viewer, which grants them visibility into a person's review results for only a specific review cycle, or a global review viewer, which gives them visibility into all review results for a person.

Help Center article 💡: Add a review viewer for a participant

Review administrators are able to create, edit, and delete review cycles, create and edit question templates, report on cycle progress, nominate and manage peers for review cycle participants, view all submitted reviews and results, interact with calibration sessions, share and finalize review results for review cycle participants, and lock/unlock review cycles. They do not have to participate in a review cycle to see progress and results. By default, review admins have visibility into all review cycles that were created while in the role. If a review administrator is added after a cycle has begun or after a cycle has ended, there will be an option to allow or restrict visibility into those previous cycles.

Only account admins can be added as review admins.

Help Center article 💡: Add or remove review admins

Cycle collaborators are added to a review cycle by a review administrator either during cycle creation or after the review cycle launches to help manage a cycle and its results. Cycle collaborators have the same permissions as review admins (with the exception of creating review cycles, managing question templates, and deleting review cycles), but only for specific review cycles.

Help Center article 💡: Add or remove cycle collaborators

Sharing users are individuals who have the ability to share and finalize review results with a participant (in addition to the participant's manager in the review cycle, review admins, and cycle collaborators.
Help Center article 💡: Edit individual settings for a participant

In addition to all the aforementioned roles, 15Five gives you the ability to create custom administrative roles that give individuals only the permissions they need.

Help Center article 💡: Create custom Best-Self Review® roles