Start by rating yourself against a five-part Staff rubric — scope, ambiguity, influence, systems, craft. Whatever actually holds up becomes a one-page case your manager and senior leadership can approve, in a few focused hours.
A practical, step-by-step workflow for senior designers — built to move fast, not stretch into a curriculum.
From your thesis statement to the final submission checklist.
Five concrete dimensions — scope, ambiguity, influence, systems, craft — rated with real evidence, not a feeling.
Brain Dump pulls the project out of your head; Translate reshapes it into Context, Action, Impact, Level-Proof.
A clean, 90-second read for your manager and senior leadership.
One finished packet, start to finish, so you can see the target. It's an invented composite, see it here, and it's included in the template.
Turn your work into a case they can approve.
The writing is fast. Getting it in front of the right people takes real lead time, not a months-long process.
Written for designers with 5+ years, whether you're already there or still finding out.
This is where you end up: a one-page case your manager can read in 90 seconds. The evidence behind each line is on its own page.
I operate at Staff because I find and frame problems across team boundaries before anyone assigns them, and I get other teams to adopt what I build.
Three product teams and the shared design system, none of them reporting to my manager, across a flow carrying about $120M a year in payments.
Coached a mid-level designer to run stakeholder reviews independently. She was promoted to Senior this cycle.
Craft depth. Two teams adopted my critique format, and I'm documenting a quality standard this quarter.
Senior product designers with 5+ years of experience who feel stuck at their level. Some have done Staff-level work but can't get it into language their manager and senior leadership approve; others aren't sure yet whether they're actually there.
A Staff rubric self-check, a 12-step guided workflow, AI prompts (Brain Dump + Translate) built into every documentation step, a one-page submission template, and a worked example packet (see it on its own page, also included in the template).
Courses teach you things over weeks. This starts by checking where you actually stand, then gets whatever holds up out of your head and onto the page. A few focused hours, not a curriculum.
Those give you a place to log what you did — a running list or empty boxes to fill in. They don't tell you whether what you did is Staff-level, or how to say it. This starts by checking where you actually stand against a real rubric, then turns whatever holds up into language your manager and senior leadership will approve.
It's free while we launch, so there's nothing to lose. Look at the worked example first if you want to know what you're getting. When the Packet moves to its regular $39, the template is duplicated straight into your own workspace at checkout, so we won't be able to offer refunds after purchase.
Try the brain-dump prompt free and look at a finished sample before you buy, so you already know what you're getting. Because the template is duplicated straight into your own workspace at checkout, we're not able to offer refunds after purchase.
Those optimize how the work reads. This checks whether the work is there first — you rate yourself against a Senior-vs-Staff rubric, five concrete dimensions, before you write a single sentence about yourself. If the evidence isn't there, it says so and points you to a Runway Plan instead of a packet built on air.
Get the Staff Promotion Packet free while we launch (regularly $39).Get the Staff Promotion Packet for $39 (one-time).
Same work. A bigger future.