[Status: Backburner ⏳] Need a way to give users multiple Job Roles
I need a way to be able to assign multiple job roles in Wrike to each user. We have many situations where 2 users are both qualified to do 1 task but the next task only 1 of them is. An example of this is a supervisor of a group is able to do the same tasks as their subordinates but the subordinate can not do all of the same tasks as the supervisor. Being only able to assign a user a single role is making it difficult for us to set up blue prints correctly.
Welcome to the Community, Greg Leff!
Thanks a lot for posting your suggestion here, I'm passing on your feedback now 👍
mdr
Lisa Community Team at Wrike Wrike Product Manager Become a Wrike expert with Wrike Discover
Lisa Wrike Team member Become a Wrike expert with Wrike Discover
We are also interested in this as we have people with different skill sets that we want to be able to assign to different aspects of our projects. Whilst being able to see if that specialty is overloaded.
Thanks for adding your feedback here Michael Morrison, we've passed this on as well 👍
Elaine Community Team at Wrike Wrike Product Manager Become a Wrike expert with Wrike Discover
Elaine Wrike Team member Become a Wrike expert with Wrike Discover
This would be very useful. Looking forward to it.
I require this feature also please. We need to assign jobs for animation, logo design, graphics etc that Creatives are often multi-skilled at.
Ideally you could extend this feature such that you could assign skill levels also; so if I'm looking at my resourcing, I could see that 3 people could all do logo design however I'd prefer to use the resource that has 3 stars than 2. Quick mockup
I was looking at using Wrike over Asana for this feature, but now that I've learnt about not having multiple roles this feature is actually of next to no use to me unfortunately. Back to the drawing board...
Hello Brendan Sheppard, welcome to the Community 👋🏻
Thanks for supporting this suggestion and sharing your use case here. Please be sure to upvote the original post if you haven't yet. The number of votes a Community suggestion receives helps the team understand the popularity of an idea, so the more votes an idea has, the more our team can see the need for such functionality. This Community article outlines how we work with Product Feedback.
If you'd like to speak to a Wrike representative about how we can better meet your needs I'm happy to arrange a meeting on your behalf. Please let me know if you're interested 🙋🏻♀️
We are also interested in this as we have people with different skill too
Hi Yann Micheli, welcome to the Community and thank you for adding your support here. Please be sure to upvote the suggestion if you haven't yet🙌🏼
We are also interested in multiple job roles for our multi-skilled people.
Hi Tonda MacLeod, welcome to the Community! Thank you for chiming in here - please be sure to upvote the original suggestion if you haven't yet 🙌🏼
This is something our team needs as well. We bill at different rates for different types of work and one person may be doing both. We need to know how many hours are being spent in each of those types to calculate billing. We use categories in the timelog as well however, I have not found a way to allocate rates there either.
Thank you for adding your feedback and use case here Melynda Willis 🙌
Lisa Community Team at Wrike Wrike Product Manager Become a Wrike expert with Wrike Discover
Lisa Wrike Team member Become a Wrike expert with Wrike Discover
This would be an amazing function for our team, echoing many of the thoughts of other comments above. Our team recently upgraded to the Pinnacle plan and are working toward fully utilizing the new benefits soon. The benefit of a highly talented team is that our people can wear many different hats and I would love to be able to view those hats as we assign projects.
Welcome to the Community Melissa DeKoff! Thank you for adding your feedback here! Please make sure to also upvote the original suggestion above if you haven't done so yet - the votes help the team understand the amount of interest for different suggestions in this Product Feedback forum 👍
Lisa Community Team at Wrike Wrike Product Manager Become a Wrike expert with Wrike Discover
Lisa Wrike Team member Become a Wrike expert with Wrike Discover
Hi community team, any updates on this functionality? It appears it would be very beneficial and we would use this for our large web projects when needing to assign different skills sets that some team members may multi expertise.
Hi Bianca McCracken, welcome to the forums 👋
No updates as this isn't on the team's plans at the moment; please upvote the original post above if you haven't yet - the votes help our Product team understand how popular a suggestion is. Once there are 60 upvotes here, we will add a Product status 👍
Lisa Community Team at Wrike Wrike Product Manager Become a Wrike expert with Wrike Discover
Lisa Wrike Team member Become a Wrike expert with Wrike Discover
I am keen for the multi-role selection as I am a service designer and a manager of people, and sometimes I am a member of a working group. Different use cases of the term role.
Welcome to the Community and thank you for chiming in here with your use case Suzie Haddock!
Is there any update on this now that there are over 70 votes?
Hi folks, apologies for the late reply here! I was checking with our product team to see if there's an update for this suggestion, and here's what's happening: our team understands the need here and is aware of the amount of interest for giving users multiple job roles. This idea isn't currently on the roadmap, but the team plans to revisit this topic in the second half of this year, so we're hoping to be able to provide you with an update then 👍
Lisa Community Team at Wrike Wrike Product Manager Become a Wrike expert with Wrike Discover
Lisa Wrike Team member Become a Wrike expert with Wrike Discover
I am adding my voice to this, as it would be very helpful for our workflow. We have people who fall under multiple job rolls, so it would be great to have the option to assign them to multiple Wrike job rolls. Taking it one step farther, a great addition would be if you could assign a person to a task under a certain job. So for one task Joe Smith is a video editor, and another task Joe Smith is a graphic designer.
Hi Russell Sprague, thank you for your detailed feedback, I can clearly see the value of your suggestions and I've passed them on to our Product Team 👍 We will keep you informed if there are any updates.
Another vote. This would allow better use of the Capacity planning report.
We are going into billing and budgeting now and also have user with different skill sets and therefore different prices.
Another vote! Our team has a basic role of account manager but sometimes step into other roles on different projects. Would need to be able to tag them in both groups.
Hi everyone! Thank you for supporting this feature. Although we don't have updates on assigning multiple job roles, our Product Team is planning to launch a beta feature related to user attributes. For those interested in participating in the testing face, please don't hesitate to let us know 🙂