How One Employee Got Promoted by Creating a Career Playbook

The Promotion Memo with Fexingo: Getting Visibility, Sponsors, and Executive Presence · Jun 22, 2026 · 7m · transcript

In this episode of The Promotion Memo, Lucas and Luna explore the story of Mei Chen, a senior marketing manager at a mid-sized B2B software company in Austin. Frustrated by the lack of clear advancement paths in her fast-growing but unstructured department, Mei took matters into her own hands. She created a comprehensive 'Career Playbook' for her role, detailing the skills, projects, and behaviors required for each level from senior manager to director. Lucas explains how she used data from public job postings and internal interviews to build the playbook, then shared it with her…