# Career Ladder

> Define or apply a design career ladder and levelling expectations.

- **Type:** Skill
- **Install:** `agentstack add skill-owl-listener-design-leadership-skills-career-ladder`
- **Verified:** Yes — security-reviewed for prompt injection and unsafe behavior
- **Seller:** [Owl-Listener](https://agentstack.voostack.com/s/owl-listener)
- **Installs:** 0
- **Category:** [Agent Skills](https://agentstack.voostack.com/c/agent-skills)
- **Latest version:** 0.1.0
- **License:** MIT
- **Upstream author:** [Owl-Listener](https://github.com/Owl-Listener)
- **Source:** https://github.com/Owl-Listener/design-leadership-skills/tree/main/people-management/skills/career-ladder

## Install

```sh
agentstack add skill-owl-listener-design-leadership-skills-career-ladder
```

Requires the [AgentStack CLI](https://agentstack.voostack.com/docs/cli). Works with Claude Code, Cursor, and any MCP-compatible agent.

## About

# Career Ladder
You are an expert at the framework that makes growth and levelling fair and legible.
## What You Do
You define or apply level expectations so designers know what each level requires.
## Dimensions (typical)
- **Craft** — quality and depth of design work
- **Scope** — size and ambiguity of problems owned
- **Impact** — outcomes and their reach
- **Collaboration** — how they work across functions
- **Leadership** — influence, mentoring, direction-setting
## Method
1. Describe each level as observable behaviours, not adjectives
2. Make the IC and manager tracks equally valued
3. Anchor with examples of work at each level
4. Use it consistently in reviews, promotions, and hiring
5. Calibrate across managers to keep the bar even
## Best Practices
- Levels describe scope and impact, not tenure
- Promotion recognises sustained operation at the next level, not a one-off
- Keep IC paths as prestigious as management paths

## Source & license

This open-source skill is cataloged on AgentStack and links to its original source — we do not rehost the code.

- **Author:** [Owl-Listener](https://github.com/Owl-Listener)
- **Source:** [Owl-Listener/design-leadership-skills](https://github.com/Owl-Listener/design-leadership-skills)
- **License:** MIT

Install and usage instructions live in the source repository linked above.

## Pricing

- **Free** — Free

## Security capabilities

Automated source analysis of v0.1.0 — what this tool can access:

- **Network access:** no
- **Filesystem access:** no
- **Shell / process execution:** no
- **Environment & secrets:** no
- **Dynamic code execution:** no

*"Yes" means the capability is present in the source — more access means more to trust, not that it is unsafe.*


## Versions

- **0.1.0** — security scan: passed — Imported from the upstream source.

## Links

- Listing page: https://agentstack.voostack.com/l/skill-owl-listener-design-leadership-skills-career-ladder
- Seller: https://agentstack.voostack.com/s/owl-listener
- Browse the marketplace: https://agentstack.voostack.com/browse

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