Promotion Readiness Kit - Staff+ Track

You are already doing Staff-level work. You know it. Your manager probably knows it. The calibration room does not.

Promotions fail when the evidence is real but invisible — when your manager cannot defend your case to a room of skeptics who have never worked with you and have 90 seconds to read your packet.

This kit transfers what I have seen from the other side of that room. After 20 years at Airbnb, Google, and Microsoft, I have sat in the calibration meetings where strong engineers get a "not yet" — and watched exactly why it happens.

What is inside:

— Promotion Readiness Score: self-assess across the 6 dimensions calibration committees actually use. Find your gaps before your manager does.

— Why Promotions Stall: the 5 patterns I see most often. One of them is almost certainly yours.

— The Staff+ Evidence Dossier: a structured framework to catalogue every piece of evidence before the cycle opens. If it is not documented, it does not count.

— The Promo Packet Blueprint: how to structure your case section by section, with examples from the calibration room perspective and a "what to avoid" for every section.

— The Calibration Room Decoder: 6 phrases that kill promotions, what each one means, and how to rewrite your packet to pre-empt every objection.

— The 90-Day Sprint Plan: if your cycle is 1-3 months away, this is your action plan starting now.

Who this is for: Senior SDEs at L5/L6 equivalent who have been doing Staff-level work and need to make that case on paper — and in the room.

If you want a second set of eyes on your scorecard and packet before the cycle opens, the 1:1 Career Strategy session is the next step.