Tech Compensation Negotiation Skill for Muse
Tech compensation negotiation from Lenny's Podcast: levels, benchmarks, and startup equity.
- What
- Tech compensation negotiation from Lenny's Podcast: levels, benchmarks, and startup equity.
- Cost
- Free
- Needs
- None.
- Install
- Copy the installer prompt below into your Muse — your agent does the rest.
Negotiate tech compensation end-to-end for product and engineering roles, built from insights across Lenny's Podcast and Newsletter. It benchmarks your value against standardized job levels (with US PM salary tables by level and percentile), teaches intelligence gathering during interviews (ask for the budgeted band — never give your number first), provides exact deflection scripts for the salary-expectations question, and walks you to evaluate startup equity like an investor (strike price, total outstanding shares). Core principles: negotiate over the phone, not email; maximize base salary since it amplifies bonuses and future raises; match your ask to the company's philosophy (high-cash like Netflix vs high-equity like Google). Discovered via skills.sh. Honest note: all salary data is US tech and PM-centric — and drawn from podcast posts that will age; outside US product/engineering roles, treat the benchmarks as directional, not literal. Skill Harbor never reviews the code, review it yourself before use. Not verified.
Curated by Skill Harbor — free, open-source skill (MIT) by @refoundai.
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Install
Prerequisites: None. Install "Tech Compensation Negotiation Skill for Muse" for me. Negotiate tech compensation using job-level benchmarking, deflection scripts, and startup equity evaluation drawn from Lenny's Podcast. Repository: https://github.com/refoundai/lenny-skills/blob/HEAD/skills/negotiating-compensation/SKILL.md 1. Fetch the SKILL.md file plus its references/ folder (guest insights, artifacts) from the repository path into a temporary folder and summarize what it does in one or two sentences. Note: the skill's real folder in the repo is named "negotiating-compensation" — install it under that name. 2. Safety check: review the SKILL.md for anything suspicious (unexpected network calls, shell commands, credential harvesting). This repo should contain zero secrets in code. Verify that holds here; STOP on any red flag and tell me. 3. Install it as a skill: copy SKILL.md and its references/ folder into the agent's skills directory, in a folder named "negotiating-compensation". 4. Verify with no network calls: frontmatter valid, files in place. 5. Report what was installed, where, and what I still need to do myself. GitHub is optional: if I have a GitHub account or the gh CLI, you may use it; otherwise public access is fine. Rules: don't touch anything outside the temp folder and the install target. If anything looks off, stop and ask me.
Questions
How do I install a build?
Every product page includes a copy-paste install prompt. Paste it into your Muse and it sets the build up for you — no manual configuration.
Where does my money go?
Straight to the seller. Skill Harbor never processes payments: checkout happens on the seller’s own page, usually Stripe.
What does the ✓ next to a creator’s name mean?
It means we confirmed the identity of the person behind the listing. It says nothing about the code itself — always check a build before installing it.