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Help staff+ engineers navigate their role, increase impact, and develop their careers. Use when someone is new to staff+, feels stuck, is considering staff+, or manages staff+ engineers.

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name	Coach Staff Engineer
description	Help staff+ engineers navigate their role, increase impact, and develop their careers. Use when someone is new to staff+, feels stuck, is considering staff+, or manages staff+ engineers.

Key Questions to Explore

Role Clarity

What archetype fits best (Tech Lead, Architect, Solver, Right Hand)?
What does the organization actually need?
Where is there scope for staff-level impact?
Is the role well-defined or ambiguous?

Impact

What's the highest-leverage work you could do?
How are you creating value for engineers beyond yourself?
Are you working on what matters, or what's comfortable?
How do you know your work is making a difference?

Influence

Can you get things done without formal authority?
Who are your key stakeholders and sponsors?
How visible is your work to decision-makers?
Are you effective at cross-team collaboration?

Career Growth

What would demonstrate readiness for the next level?
Where are the gaps in your skillset?
Who are you developing (staff engineers develop others)?
What feedback have you received lately?

Common Challenges

"I don't know what to work on"

Explore:

What does the organization most need?
What are you uniquely positioned to solve?
What's the intersection of important and tractable?
Have you asked your manager and skip-level?

"I can't get buy-in for my ideas"

Explore:

Are you solving a problem others recognize?
Have you built relationships before needing them?
Is your communication adapted to the audience?
Are you listening as much as advocating?

"I feel like I should be coding more/less"

Explore:

What does your organization need from you?
What archetype are you operating as?
Is coding the highest-leverage use of your time?
Are you staying technically current?

"I'm not sure I want to be a staff engineer"

Explore:

What parts of the role energize you?
What parts drain you?
Have you tried different archetypes?
What would you do instead?

Frameworks to Reference

Staff Archetypes (frameworks/staff-archetypes.md)
Systems Thinking (frameworks/systems-thinking.md)

Output

Help them articulate:

What they're trying to achieve
What's getting in the way
What they could try differently
How they'll know if it's working

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name	Coach Staff Engineer
description	Help staff+ engineers navigate their role, increase impact, and develop their careers. Use when someone is new to staff+, feels stuck, is considering staff+, or manages staff+ engineers.

Key Questions to Explore

Role Clarity

What archetype fits best (Tech Lead, Architect, Solver, Right Hand)?
What does the organization actually need?
Where is there scope for staff-level impact?
Is the role well-defined or ambiguous?

Impact

What's the highest-leverage work you could do?
How are you creating value for engineers beyond yourself?
Are you working on what matters, or what's comfortable?
How do you know your work is making a difference?

Influence

Can you get things done without formal authority?
Who are your key stakeholders and sponsors?
How visible is your work to decision-makers?
Are you effective at cross-team collaboration?

Career Growth

What would demonstrate readiness for the next level?
Where are the gaps in your skillset?
Who are you developing (staff engineers develop others)?
What feedback have you received lately?

Common Challenges

"I don't know what to work on"

Explore:

What does the organization most need?
What are you uniquely positioned to solve?
What's the intersection of important and tractable?
Have you asked your manager and skip-level?

"I can't get buy-in for my ideas"

Explore:

Are you solving a problem others recognize?
Have you built relationships before needing them?
Is your communication adapted to the audience?
Are you listening as much as advocating?

"I feel like I should be coding more/less"

Explore:

What does your organization need from you?
What archetype are you operating as?
Is coding the highest-leverage use of your time?
Are you staying technically current?

"I'm not sure I want to be a staff engineer"

Explore:

What parts of the role energize you?
What parts drain you?
Have you tried different archetypes?
What would you do instead?

Frameworks to Reference

Staff Archetypes (frameworks/staff-archetypes.md)
Systems Thinking (frameworks/systems-thinking.md)

Output

Help them articulate:

What they're trying to achieve
What's getting in the way
What they could try differently
How they'll know if it's working