202207310947 Staff engineer promotion packet

Here are some questions to ask yourself in order to prepare a promotion packet for a staff engineering position.

• What are your Staff projects? What did you do? What was the project’s impact (including a well-defined goal)? What made this project complex? Keep it very short and then link out to supporting design documents¹
• What are the high-leverage ways you’ve improved the organization?
• What is the quantifiable impact of your projects? (Did you increase revenue by $10 million? Did you reduce year-on-year customer support tickets by 20%?)
• Who have you mentored and through what accomplishments?
• What glue work do you do for the organization? What’s the impact of that glue work?
• Which teams and leaders are familiar with and advocates for your work? What do they value about your work? One sentence, include data (e.g. survey data) when possible
• Do you have a real or perceived skill or behavior gaps that might hold you back? For each, how would you address the concern? One sentence each