Draft an engineering career ladder and promotion rubric with Claude Code

Use career-ladder-design to outline engineering tracks and describe observable evidence for progression across levels.

Install in Claude Code

Claude Code and anonymized or fictional role descriptions and project examples.

Open the pinned GitHub source below and retrieve the `tech-lead/team-development/skills/career-ladder-design/` directory from that revision.
Copy it into `.claude/skills/career-ladder-design/` in your project, keeping `SKILL.md` and its companion files together.
Open Claude Code in the project root and enter `/career-ladder-design` followed by the example task.

Example task

For a fictional 12-person team, draft mid-level, senior, and staff individual-contributor levels. Ask for two observable behaviors at each level and a mock senior-to-staff review.

What to check

The rubric distinguishes team delivery from cross-team impact and ties the mock review to project records or design decisions.

Original SKILL.md on GitHub · Updated 2026-11-11

Frequently asked question

Is the generated ladder ready to use as promotion policy?

Use it as a discussion draft. The authorized team decides actual titles, compensation ranges, and review procedures.