Role permissions breakdown

What a user can see and do in their Lever environment is dictated by their role. In turn, roles are provisioned with permissions corresponding to the objects and workflows in each part of the platform. Lever has five preconfigured roles: Super Admin, Admin, Team Member, Limited Team Member, and Interviewer. The permissions for these roles cannot be edited.

When a user is added to Lever, their account is configured with the role that will dictate what they can view and the actions they can take. To learn more about this workflow, refer to our help article on user management.

The table in this article lists all configurable permissions in Lever, grouped by platform area, as well as the permission sets for each of the five preconfigured roles. Note that any of the listed permissions can be provisioned for a custom role. To learn more, refer to our help article on configuring custom role permissions.

In this article

• Roles by function
• Permissions table
• Permission definitions

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Roles by function

While the roles given to users in your Lever environment can vary based on your organization's needs, the five preconfigured roles are typically granted along the following function-specific categories:

Role	Function
Super Admin	HR Director, VP of People
Admin	Lead Recruiter, Head of Recruiting, Recruiters
Team Member	Recruiters, Recruiting Coordinators, Schedulers, Sourcers
Limited Team Member	Hiring Managers
Interviewer	The rest of your organization

 

Permissions table

Scroll within the table to view the full list of permissions as well as the permissions for each of the five preconfigured roles (Super Admin, Admin, Team Member, Limited Team Member, Interviewer). Use a keyword search (⌘ + F  on a Mac or Ctrl + F on a Windows computer) to locate a specific permission in the list. Clicking a permission will take you to its description (consisting of its definition and any permissions upon which it is dependent) below the table.

Permission	Super Admin	Admin	Team Member	Limited Team Member	Interviewer
Postings, candidates, and requisitions
Manage profiles and view associated postings	All profiles and postings	All profiles and postings	All profiles and postings	Only if the user is the owner or hiring manager, or is granted access to the profiles and associated job postings	No
View other users' interview feedback	View all interview feedback for all profiles the user has access to	View all interview feedback for all profiles the user has access to	View all interview feedback for all profiles the user has access to	No	No
When on the interview panel, view other users' feedback before submitting their own	All feedback	All feedback	Use company account's interview feedback visibility setting	No	No
Complete feedback on behalf of other users	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No
Approve offers on behalf of other users	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No
Edit, delete, and make activity secret on the candidate profile	Yes	Yes	No	No	No
Anonymize candidates	Yes	Yes	No	No	No
Manage sources	Yes	Yes	No	No	No
Manage tags	Yes	Yes	No	No	No
Approve postings on behalf of other users	All postings	Only postings where the approver is the user's direct report	Only postings where the approver is the user's direct report	Only postings where the approver is the user's direct report	No
Create and edit postings	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No
View confidential job postings, requisitions, and manage profiles	All confidential job postings, requisitions, and profiles	Only if the user is the owner, creator, or hiring manager, or is granted access to the job postings and associated profiles	Only if the user is the owner, creator, or hiring manager, or is granted access to the job postings and associated profiles	Only if the user is the owner, creator, or hiring manager, or is granted access to the job postings and associated profiles	No
Create and edit confidential postings	All postings	Only postings that the user owns	No	No	No
View requisitions	All requisitions	All requisitions	Only if the user is the owner, creator, or hiring manager of the requisition	Only if the user is the owner, creator, or hiring manager of the requisition	No
Delete requisitions	Any open, closed, and on hold requisitions; any pending, draft, and rejected requisitions.	Any open, closed, and on hold requisitions; any pending, draft, and rejected requisitions.	Only draft, pending, or rejected requisitions for which they are the creator	Only draft, pending, or rejected requisitions for which they are the creator	No
Create and edit requisitions that the user has access to	All requisitions	All requisitions	Create and edit draft and pending requisitions if there is a default requisition approval chain and the user is the owner or hiring manager on the requisition	Create and edit draft and pending requisitions if there is a default requisition approval chain and the user is the owner or hiring manager on the requisition	No
Link job postings and requisitions to each other	All requisitions	All requisitions	Only if the user is the owner, creator, or hiring manager of the requisition	No	No
Approve requisitions on behalf of other users	All requisitions	Only requisitions where the approver is the user's direct report	No	No	No
Surveys and application questions
Manage candidate surveys	Yes	Yes	No	No	No
Delete custom application questions	Yes	Yes	No	No	No
Visual Insights
View Visual Insights reports	All options Candidate Experience Surveys, Compliance, Diversity, Equal Employment Opportunity, Hiring Manager, Interviews, Nurture, Offers, Overview, Pipeline, Postings, Recruiter Operations, Requisitions, Sources, Talent Acquisitions Benchmarks, Talent Leader Summary	Specific options Compliance, Hiring Manager, Interviews, Nurture, Overview, Pipeline, Postings, Recruiter Operations, Requisitions, Sources, Talent Acquisitions Benchmarks, Talent Leader	Specific options Hiring Manager, Recruiter Operations	Specific options Hiring Manager	No
Access Visual Insights Report Builder (Data Explorer)	All options EEO Anonymized, EEO Non-anonymized, Opportunities, Requisitions financials, Requisitions opportunities	No	No	No	No
View Visual Insights report schedules	All options	All options	Specific options Only dashboards user shared	Specific options Only dashboards user shared	No
Change Visual Insights report schedules	All shared dashboards	All shared dashboards	Only if the user created the dashboard	Only if the user created the dashboard	No
Manage Visual Insights reports settings	Yes	Yes	No	No	No
Pipeline and workflows
Manage Easy Book links	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Edit approval chains for requisitions, postings, and offers	Yes	Yes	No	No	No
Manage automation workflows	Yes	No	No	No	No
Manage email templates	All email templates	All email templates	All email templates	Only the ones created by the user	No
Manage nurture templates	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Manage offer letter templates, fields, and forms	Manage all offer letter templates, fields, and forms	Manage only offer letter templates and fields	No	No	No
Manage archive reasons	Yes	No	No	No	No
Manage pipeline stages	Yes	No	No	No	No
Integrations and API
Manage API credentials and manage integrations	Yes	No	No	No	No
Manage Data Warehouse Sync integration	Yes	No	No	No	No
Candidate Texting
Manage texting settings	Yes	No	No	No	No
Administration and configuration
Receive in-app administrative communications	Yes	Yes	No	No	No
Manage agencies	Yes	Yes	No	No	No
Manage company contacts	Yes	No	No	No	No
Manage company settings	All options	All options	No	No	No
View and edit compliance settings	Yes	Yes	No	No	No
Manage feedback settings	Yes	Yes	No	No	No
Manage form settings	Yes	Yes	No	No	No
Manage requisition settings	Yes	Yes	No	No	No
Receive and request sensitive details and changes to the account	Yes	No	No	No	No
Manage job sites	Edit job site settings	Edit job site settings except for activating and deactivating the internal job site	No	No	No
Edit locking of sources and tag creation	Yes	Yes	No	No	No
View and edit roles in settings	Yes	No	No	No	No
View, edit, and create users in settings	All options Super Admin, Admin, Team Member, Limited Team Member, Interviewer, and custom roles	Specific options Admin, Team Member, Limited Team Member, Interviewer roles	Specific options Limited Team Member, Interviewer roles	No	No

Although the Interviewer role does not have any configurable permissions, users with this role have the ability to complete interview feedback forms and submit referrals.

Permission definitions

Below you will find the definitions for each permission. If a permission is dependent on any other permissions, they will be listed below the definition.

What are dependent permissions?

Dependent permissions are those that need to be enabled in conjunction with other permissions in order for the role to which they are associated to function properly. For example, if a custom role has permission A, but permission A is dependent on permissions B and C, the custom role must have permissions A, B, and C.

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Postings, candidates, and requisitions

Manage profiles and view associated postings
Grants access to all non-confidential candidates within Lever or profiles and postings the user is granted access to from the posting, by department, team, or location, as well as those for which they are the hiring manager or owner. Users with this permission can be granted Sensitive Information Privileges and (in the event they do not have access to all profiles and postings) personalized degrees of candidate access. Users with this permission can also be granted the ability to perform bulk candidate imports. To learn more, refer to our bulk candidate import article.

Interviews

View other users' interview feedback
Grants users access to view interview feedback other than their own or grant access to view interview feedback only for the panel of which they are a part. If a custom role is provisioned with this permission, it will override the default interview feedback visibility configured in your Lever instance's Company settings. To learn more, refer to our help article on configuring interview feedback visibility.
Dependent permission: Manage profiles and view associated postings

When on the interview panel, view other users' feedback before submitting their own
Before submitting their own feedback on a candidate, users have the ability to view feedback from other interviewers. To learn more, refer to our help article in interview feedback visibility.

Complete feedback on behalf of other users
Users can submit interview feedback on behalf of any user involved in the interview process. Note: this permission is exclusively granted to Super Admins within default roles.

Candidates

Approve offers on behalf of other users
User can authorize job offers on behalf of any user in the approval hierarchy. Note: this is restricted to Super Admins within default roles. To learn more, refer to our help article on approving by proxy.

Edit, delete, and make activity secret on the candidate profile
Users are authorized to modify and delete candidate profiles activities that they did not create, which involves activities like stage movement, archiving, sending emails, and adding remarks.
Dependent permission: Manage profiles and view associated postings

Anonymize candidates
Grants access to anonymize candidates via profile and the 'Candidate data' tab via data compliance settings. To learn more, refer to the section on anonymizing candidate data in our data compliance help article.
Dependent permission: Manage profiles and view associated postings

Manage sources
Users can create and modify sources via their account settings. To learn more about source tags, refer to our help article on tag creation and management.
Dependent permission: Manage profiles and view associated postings

Postings

Manage tags
Users can manually insert and generate tags for both opportunities and postings. To learn more, refer to our help article on tag creation and management.
Dependent permission: Manage profiles and view associated postings

Approve postings on behalf of other users
Users can authorize postings on behalf of any user in the approval hierarchy. Note: this is restricted to Super Admins within default roles. To learn more, refer to our help article on approving by proxy.
Dependent permissions: Create and edit postings + View profiles and associated job postings

Create and edit postings
Users can create, edit, and remove all postings excluding confidential postings. To learn more, refer to our help article on creating creating and managing job postings. Users with this permission can also be granted Sensitive Information Privileges and personalized degrees of candidate access.
Dependent permission: Manage profiles and view associated postings

Confidential postings, requisitions, and profiles

View confidential job postings, requisitions, and manage profiles
Users can gain access to either all confidential postings, requisitions, and profiles or specific postings and associated profiles as well as postings and requisitions for which they are the owner, the hiring manager, or creator.
Dependent permission: Manage profiles and view associated postings

Create and edit confidential postings
Users have the option to either create or edit all confidential postings, or only those for which they are the posting owner. To learn more, refer to our help article on confidential postings.
Dependent permissions: Create and edit postings + Manage profiles and view associated postings + View confidential job postings, requisitions, and manage profiles

Requisitions

View requisitions
Users have the ability to see all requisitions, but they do not have permission to create, modify, or remove them.

Delete requisitions
Users have the ability to any delete open, closed, or on hold requisitions and/or the ability to delete draft, pending, and rejected requisitions. This permission does not confer the ability to create or modify requisitions.
Dependent permission: View requisitions

Create and edit requisitions that the user has access to
Users can create new requisitions and edit existing requisitions. To learn more, refer to our help article on creating and managing requisitions.
Dependent permission: View requisitions

Link job postings and requisitions to each other
Users can link requisitions that they have to which they have access to job postings, or vice versa. To learn more, refer to our help article on linking job postings and requisitions.
Dependent permission: View requisitions

Approve requisitions on behalf of other users
Users can authorize requisitions on behalf of any user in the approval hierarchy. Note: this is restricted to Super Admins within default roles. To learn more, refer to our help article on approving by proxy.

Surveys and application questions

Manage candidate surveys
Users can configure and read reports on different type of surveys for their organization in Lever. Survey configuration can be done via the 'Surveys' tab of the company settings page. To learn more, refer to the following help articles: Using the Candidate Experience Survey, Using diversity surveys, Enabling EEO questions

Delete custom application questions
Users can delete custom application questions created for job postings. To learn more, refer to our help article on adding custom application questions to job postings.
Dependent permission: Manage profiles and view associated postings

Visual Insights

View Visual Insights report schedules
Users can view the delivery details of dashboards shared on a recurring cadence. To learn more, refer to our help article on sharing dashboards.

Access Visual Insights Report Builder (Data Explorer)
Users can access all data fields or specific data fields within Data Explorer to build custom charts and dashboard. To learn more, refer to the following help articles: Building custom charts with Data Explorer, Managing custom dashboards
Dependent permission: View Visual Insights reports

View Visual Insights reports
Grant access to all or specific Visual Insight dashboards. The specific Visual Insights dashboards option include the ability to configure visibility into the following: Overview dashboard, Requisitions dashboard, Pipeline dashboard, Postings dashboard, Sources dashboard, Offers dashboard, Interviews dashboard, Nurture dashboard, Compliance dashboard, EEO dashboard, Recruiter Operations dashboard, Talent Acquisition Benchmarks dashboard, Candidate Experience Surveys dashboard, Hiring Manager dashboard, Data Explorer, Time-to-Hire Wizard, Time-to-Fill Wizard, Exports. To learn more, about each of these dashboards, refer to our Visual Insights chart directory. Users with this permission can be granted the ability to access data exports. To learn more, refer to our data exports help article.

Change Visual Insights report schedules
Users can make edits to the delivery schedule of dashboards shared on a recurring cadence. To learn more, refer to our help article on sharing dashboards.

Manage Visual Insights report settings
User can access the 'Settings' page in Visual Insights, giving them ability to configure the time-to-hire and time-to-fill calculations, as well as the ability opt-in to data sharing in order to enable the Talent Acquisition Benchmarks dashboard. To learn more, refer to the 'Settings' section of our Visual Insights overview article.

Pipeline and workflows

Interviews

Manage Easy Book links
Users can create, edit, and delete Easy Book links for themselves via their account settings. To learn more, refer to our help article on creating and using Easy Book links.

Approvals and automations

Edit approval chains for requisitions, postings, and offers
Users can edit approval workflows for requisition, postings, and offers via the 'Approvals' page in their account settings. To learn more, refer to the following help articles: Building requisition approval workflows, Building posting approval workflows, Building offer approval workflows

Manage automation workflows
Users can create, enable, disable, edit, and delete automation workflows via the automation hub. To learn more, refer to our help article on creating automation workflows.

Templates

Manage email templates
Users can configure (create, edit, and delete) all email templates or only the ones that they have created. To learn more, refer to our email templates help article.

Manage nurture templates
User can create, edit, and delete all nurture templates or only the ones that they have created. To learn more, refer to the 'Nurture templates' section of our email templates help article.

Manage offer letter templates, fields, and forms
User can access either all offer fields, offers forms, and offer letter templates for their organization or only offer letter templates and fields, depending on the sub-permission that has been selected. To learn more, refer to the following help articles: Creating offer letter templates, Creating and managing offer forms

Pipeline

Manage archive reasons
Users can add, modify, reactivate, or deactivate archive reasons via their account settings. To learn more, refer to our help article on archive reason modification.
Dependent permissions: Manage candidate experience, diversity, and equal employment opportunity surveys + Manage automation workflows

Manage pipeline stages
Users can add, modify, reactivate, or deactivate pipeline stages via their account settings. To learn more, refer to our help article on pipeline stage modification.
Dependent permissions: Manage candidate experience, diversity, and equal employment opportunity surveys + Manage automation workflows

Integrations and API

Manage API credentials and manage integrations
Users can generate, view, and remove Application Programming Interface (API) credentials that enable the tools in their organization's tech suite to access data in the Lever environment. Moreover, they can set up integrations via account settings. To learn more about API credentials, refer to our API credentials help article. To learn more about setting up integrations, refer to our 'Integrations' help article collection.

Manage Data Warehouse Sync integration
Users can configure the Data Warehouse Sync integration for their Lever environment. They are provided with credentials to access the database where reporting data is stored. To learn more, refer to our Data Warehouse Sync help article.

Candidate texting

Manage texting settings
Users with texting permission can utilize the 10DLC form to set up texting. For more information refer to our help article on candidate texting. 

Administration and configuration

Company configuration

Receive in-app administrative communications
Users will receive in-app communications from Lever, including product tutorials for new features and self-guided implementation walkthroughs.

Manage agencies
User can create, edit, view, and delete agencies. To learn more, refer to our help article on connecting and working with agencies.

Manage company contacts
User can modify your organization's key contacts in charge of managing the Lever platform by adding, removing, or updating them. Lever uses these contact to connect with the appropriate individual in your organization based on the specific subject matter.

Manage company settings
Company-level settings including the configuration of departments and teams, locations, work types, and specific email sync options. To learn more, refer to our help article on configuring company settings.

View and edit compliance settings
Users can setup GDPR or data compliance preferences in their Lever environment for their organization. To learn more, refer to our help article on configuring data compliance settings.

Manage feedback settings
User can create new feedback forms and modify the existing ones according to their organization's preferences. To learn more, refer to our help article on creating interview feedback forms.

Manage form settings
Users can create new forms and customize existing forms. To learn more, refer to our help article in configuring and using forms.

Manage requisition settings
Users can activate and deactivate requisitions, set up default requisition fields, edit custom requisition fields, and manage requisition approvers. To learn more, refer to our help article on configuring requisition settings.

Receive and request sensitive details and changes to occur
Users can request or receive notifications regarding sensitive account alterations, such as sandbox refreshes and payment details.

Manage job sites
User can configure external and internal job sites, design application forms and posting templates, and customize the appearance of your Lever-hosted job site to align with your organization's branding. To learn more, refer to our help article on configuring your Lever-hosted job site.

Edit locking of sources and tag creation
User can lock source and tag creation. When source and tag creation is locked, only users with the 'Manage tags' permission can create and edit sources and tags. To learn more, refer to our help article on tag creation and management.

Users and roles

View and edit roles in settings
Users can create new roles, modify current roles, and configure permissions assigned to custom roles. To learn more, refer to our help article on creating and managing custom roles.

View, edit, and create users in settings
Users can incorporate, reinstate, disable, and relocate users within and between roles. This permission also gives users the ability to change other users' Sensitive Information Privileges and grant other users personalized degrees of candidate access via their user profile. To learn more, refer to our help article on user management.