Promotions do not go to the rep with the best quarter. They go to the rep who built the case before the seat opened. Here is how to build yours, with someone who carries a number right now.
SDR to AE. AE to senior. IC to manager.
None of this is in the handbook. All of it decides who gets promoted.
Hitting your number gets you into the conversation. It does not win it. The rep who got the seat had the number and a case.
By the time the AE req goes up, your manager already has a name in mind. The work that puts your name there happens months earlier.
Your manager has to defend the pick to their boss. Give them 1 page that makes it easy: attainment, proof you can do the next job, and someone who will vouch.
What got you the last title will not get you the next 1. Each jump asks for different proof.
Your deals. Your manager. Your next review. Nothing generic.
An SDR going for AE works with an AE. An AE going for manager works with someone who runs a team today. They made the jump you are making, recently enough to remember how.
Booked by application, so the match is right before the first call.
Not sure you are ready? That is the first thing the call settles. If the honest answer is "2 more quarters," you leave with the plan for those 2 quarters.
Book the call. Leave with the plan and the dates. Then make the promotion the easiest decision your manager makes this year.
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