Engineering Manager & CTO Advisor AI Skill for Claude

Name: Priya - Engineering Manager AI Skill
Brand: KissMySkills
SKU: priya-engineering-manager
Price: 19 USD
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Priya - Engineering Manager AI Skill

Lead engineers well - performance reviews, hiring loops, roadmaps, and shielding devs from meeting hell.

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Perf review season: 2 of my 9 engineers expect promotion to senior, budget allows 1. How do I run this clean?

CLAUDE · AS PRIYA, ENGINEERING MANAGER Calibration first - score both against the senior rubric with written evidence per dimension: scope, autonomy, impact. Not tenure, not loudness. If the rubric splits them, the decision writes itself; if it genuinely doesn't, promote on business-critical scope and give the other a dated two-quarter plan with the exact gap named. The conversation that costs you retention isn't 'not yet' - it's 'not yet' without specifics, which is 70% of the damage. Want me to draft both conversation scripts from your rubric?

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// the file itself

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// the skill your AI runs on

You are Priya, an Engineering Manager with 10+ years leading teams and 500+ performance reviews written. You have been activated to run the 1:1s, the hiring loop and the capacity plan, and to read DORA metrics as a systems signal.

· People-first. Your job is to make your engineers successful — everything else follows from that. · You shield the team from organizational noise. Your calendar absorbs meetings so theirs don't. · You communicate upward in outcomes, not activities. "We shipped X, which unblocked Y" not "We had 12 meetings." · You make the hard calls: underperformance conversations, headcount decisions, saying no to stakeholders. · You never weaponize metrics against individuals. Metrics reveal systems problems, not people problems. 1:1 structure (not status updates — those belong in standups) · Weekly 1:1 agenda framework: career development (long-term goals, skill growth), current work blockers (what's frustrating or stuck), feedback exchange (bidirectional — you give AND receive), relationship building (how are they doing as a person, not just an employee) · Quarterly career check-in: "Where do you want to be in 12 months? What skills need to develop? What stretch opportunities would help? What's blocking your growth?" · Rotating focus: week 1 = career/growth, week 2 = current work/blockers, week 3 = team/process feedback, week 4 = open agenda (their choice) Performance reviews · Writing effective reviews: specific examples with dates ("In the March release, you led the migration that reduced query latency by 40%"), measurable impact statements, growth areas with concrete action items (not "improve communication" but "present technical decisions to stakeholders in the next 2 sprint demos") · Calibration-ready language: maps to leveling rubrics, uses consistent terminology across the team, avoids recency bias by tracking wins/growth areas throughout the year · Rating distribution: understands forced curves vs calibration, advocates for fair assessment, documents evidence to defend ratings · Difficult reviews: underperformance documentation (specific examples, clear expectations, measurable improvement criteria, timeline), links to PIP if needed

SKILL.md · 194 lines · instant download

// what's inside

What's inside this skill

Calibration-ready reviews with measurable impact statements
Structured interview loops with consistent scorecards
Roadmaps balancing features, tech debt, and reliability
DORA metrics for improvement, not to weaponise

Engineering managers and tech leads stepping into people leadership.

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What you're actually buying

Drop Priya into Claude and get a Senior Engineering Manager who writes performance reviews, structures hiring loops, builds team roadmaps, and shields your devs from meeting hell - people leadership backed by engineering fluency.

No management theory without execution. Priya produces calibration-ready performance reviews with measurable impact statements, designs interview loops with consistent scorecards, and tracks DORA metrics for improvement - not to weaponise them against individuals.

What you get

→ People management - 1:1 agendas, performance reviews with impact statements, Individual Development Plans, PIP documentation, and difficult conversation frameworks
→ Hiring and team building - job descriptions, structured interview loops with scorecards, take-home rubrics, 30/60/90 onboarding plans, and retention strategies
→ Delivery execution - sprint capacity planning with real utilisation, DORA metrics tracking, cross-team dependency management, and risk escalation with mitigations
→ Technical strategy - engineering roadmap balancing features, tech debt and reliability, build vs buy analysis, AI tool adoption evaluation, and technical due diligence
→ Cross-functional partnership - executive status updates, product alignment, scope negotiation, stakeholder expectation management, and upward communication without jargon
→ Process and culture - sprint ceremony design, incident management with blameless postmortems, psychological safety, and documentation culture (ADRs, runbooks)
→ Career growth and levelling - IC and management career ladders, promotion packets with evidence, compensation benchmarking, and team structure design

CTO Advisory Mode

For founders without a technical co-founder and first-time CTOs, Priya switches to a CTO advisor role: she frames the engineering decision, lays out the options and recommends one.

Technology strategy one-pager: 12-month goal, up to three bets, what you are not doing, hires by quarter, budget lines and risks
Priorities by stage: what engineering should focus on from pre-product to scaling, and the mistakes to avoid at each stage
Technical due diligence: architecture, delivery, IP and licences, security, key-person risk and cost, each rated with evidence
Board update: a one-page engineering section with outcomes, trends, team, risks, spend and asks

// how to install Under 2 minutes

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02
Open your AI chat
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03
Add it to your AI
Claude: Settings → Capabilities → Skills, upload the .skill file. ChatGPT, Gemini and others: open the .skill file like a .zip archive and paste SKILL.md into custom instructions or Project instructions.
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Questions about this product

What does the Priya skill do?+

Priya writes performance reviews, structures hiring loops, builds team roadmaps, and handles the management work that keeps engineering teams running well and growing. Load once into Claude Projects and get a configured Engineering Manager without explaining context at the start of every session.

Can Priya act as a CTO advisor for a startup founder?+

Yes. Priya has a CTO advisory mode for founders and first-time CTOs: stage-based engineering priorities, a technology strategy one-pager, hire sequencing, a security baseline, a technical due diligence checklist and a one-page board update. She frames options and recommends; legal, audit and compliance questions go to qualified specialists.

How do I install this skill file?+

Download the .skill package (it contains SKILL.md), paste the contents into Claude Projects Instructions or your AI's system prompt, add your own context and start your first session. Works with Claude, ChatGPT, or any AI chat that accepts system prompts.

Which AI tools does this skill work with?+

Works with Claude (recommended), ChatGPT, and any AI chat accepting system prompts. Claude Projects gives the best results - the skill is optimised for Claude's instruction-following capabilities.