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Today 8:22 AM
VP offer just came in. $440k base, $1.6M RSU over four years. Should I take it?
No. Their VP band tops out at $510k. Last three external hires at your level got $2.4M+ in equity. You're $400k light on the four-year total. Don't negotiate base. Push the grant."
They added $400k sign-on but won't move on equity.
Sign-on costs them nothing on the cap table. The structural gap is still there. Go back and say you're staying put unless the RSU lifts to $2.2M. They've spent six weeks on you. They won't restart.
Signed. $510k base, $2.3M RSU, $400k sign-on. They want me to countersign tonight.
Don't. Ask for double-trigger acceleration and the severance clause in writing first. Two paragraphs, twelve more hours. That's $1.5M of protection on a bad day."
I'm confused, can we please jump on a call?
Don't. Ask for double-trigger acceleration and the severance clause in writing first. Two paragraphs, twelve more hours. That's $1.5M of protection on a bad day."
I'm confused, can we please jump on a call?

Let's jump on. I'll walk you through the acceleration clause and what to ask for in the next twelve hours.

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See the real numbers

Know your number before interviews, when an offer lands, or any time. Base, equity, bonus for your level at any firm, refreshed constantly.

Rehearse the call

Run the counter, the pushback, and the awkward silence before the call. Out loud, until it sounds like you.

Know the other side

A dossier on the company, the hiring manager, and the board. Where they hire from, what they last paid, where they typically flex.

Comp Intelligence

The data layer behind every Athena conversation. Real pay for your firm and your level, broken down in full: base, bonus, ESOP and RSU schedules, variable pay, and complete executive packages. Every figure is pulled from company filings, regulatory disclosures, and operators inside the firms, then cross-checked against recent offers. Not crowdsourced averages that were stale before you ever read them.

  • Band-level detail for your firm and your level
  • ESOP, RSU, and variable pay broken down, not just base
  • Refreshed against filings, disclosures, and insider verifications
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What should I ask for as VP Engineering at Atlassian Sydney?

Compiling band data6s

Cross-checking 2025 filings, 14 recent offers, and 3 insider verifications.

Band reveal
Atlassian • VP Engineering • Sydney
Base$385k – $445k
RSU$1.2M – $1.8M / 4y
Bonus20 – 30% of base
Total Comp$720k – $920k

Push the top of band on RSU. Base is sticky here, equity is where they flex.

What do you want to know?
Comp intel
Built for the negotiation

Always on your side of the table.

Working your offer when you can't. Sealed entirely to you. Ready before every call.

Always on your side of the table.

Athena keeps working on your offer when you're not. Pulling fresh band data, drafting counters, watching for the moves that change your number. Wake up to the brief, not the inbox.

Private to you, invisible to everyone.

Every conversation, dossier, and counter-draft is sealed to your account. Your employer will never see Athena. Your recruiter will never know she's in the room. Not now, not ever.

Rehearses the room with you.

Run the counter, the pause, and the walk-away out loud before the call. By the time you sit down, you've already had the conversation three times. Nothing catches you off guard.

The reps you don't have

Your recruiter has done this 200 times.
You've done it twice.

By the time you sit across from her, she has run this script through hundreds of execs at your level. She knows which line makes most people fold, what the CFO will sign off on, and what last week's offer to the other candidate looked like. You walked in with a Glassdoor tab and a hunch.

The asymmetry isn't skill. It's reps. Athena gives you the missing 196.

Uplift delivered
on a recent package
$115k
Firms with
benchmarked pay data
408
How far under benchmark
the median user sits
14.3%
01
Offer arrives at 7pm.
Heart rate climbs.
02
Text three friends.
Get three different opinions.
03
Counter at +8%.
Accept their +3% in return.
04
Sign Friday.
Hear Monday you under-asked by $90k.
Pricing

Pay for the answer. Keep the upside.

Your upside depends on your offer, your role, your market.
Athena turns all three into leverage.

Benchmarking
$149/3 months
Built forPeople sizing up their real worth before the conversation starts
You getYour number, and where you sit against your peers
The outcomeYou either fix being underpaid, or stop wondering
Benchmarks built around your exact firm, level, and city
A clear read on whether your offer matches your market value
Your full package decoded, including the real worth of your equity and long-term incentives
Coverage across 400+ firms, refreshed each quarter from filings and disclosures
A clear view of where you stand against your peers
See exactly where you are being underpaid today
Unlimited conversations with Athena on any compensation decision
Negotiation
$499/3 months
Built forAnyone holding a live offer, counter, or review with money on the table
Typical ClientsSenior engineers through to Partners and CXOs
UpsideCan be 20x to 2,000x the price of this plan
Everything in Benchmarking & Insights
Pre-call dossier on recruiter, manager, board
Counter drafts with sourced anchors and phrasing
Live rehearsal: pushback, silence, walk-away
Dashboard tracking every term and counter
Post-call review and follow-up drafts
Equity modelling over the vesting cycle
Chat with Athena anytime: instant reads on every counter
Success

Execs land the offer they meant to ask for.

Most of them never planned to negotiate. They had Athena in their corner.

See what you could be asking for

SVP, $200M P&L, at a Forbes Global 2000 company

Athena surfaced precedent buried in the company's own filings, the kind HR will tell you doesn't exist until you put it in front of them. That became my leverage.

Added to Package
$160kAUD
Rehearsals
5
Calls to close
3

Individual result. Outcomes vary and are not guaranteed.

Athena

Instant insights

Offer tracking

Rehearse live

Fully private

When to move

At a glance

Decodes the offer

Works offline

And much more

A complete toolkit for every pay conversation.

Multi-offer compare

Stack two offers side by side, line by line

Insider sales tracker

Watch what leadership is doing with their own stock

Currency aware

USD, GBP, AUD, INR, SGD, all converted in real time

Recruiter decoder

What "we'll see what we can do" actually means

Promotion band lookup

Know the band for your next title before the conversation

Comparable hires

Recent packages at the same firm, same level

Walkaway scripts

Pre-drafted exit lines, calibrated to the offer in front of you

Relocation rate check

Know the local band before you accept or counter on a move

RSU vesting modeller

See your full equity over the four-year vest, taxes included

Severance modeller

Know your exit terms before you sign on

Counter library

Battle-tested phrasing for the moments most negotiations hinge on

Tax-adjusted view

See the net, not just the headline number

Concierge

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Concierge

Bespoke negotiation, end to end. For the offers measured in millions.

When the package crosses seven figures, software stops being enough. Concierge pairs you with a senior negotiator who has closed dozens of CXO packages, working your deal alongside Athena from first call to final signature. One sentence in the room can be worth more than the entire fee.

Years inside boardroom-level deals at the comp tier in front of you. Not a generalist, not a coach. Bespoke, not templated. Dossiers tailored to your counterparties, your industry, your board, and the exact deal on the table.

A negotiator in your corner.

Years inside boardroom-level deals at the comp tier in front of you. Not a generalist, not a coach.

Bespoke, not templated.

Dossiers customized for your partners, industry, board, and the specific deal at hand.

In the room when it counts.

Real-time support during the call, the board interview, and the final commercial review.

By invitation

The data finds your leverage. A human knows when to use it.

Athena's intelligence, a negotiator who has closed packages like yours, alongside you.

Reviewed within 72 hours. We respond either way.

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Talk it through the moment an offer lands, or text when discretion matters more than speed. Upgrade to Concierge for bespoke strategy on equity, level and leverage, by invitation.

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Text Athena

Drop her a message on iMessage. No app, no signup.

02

Talk to Athena

One tap and you're on a call. Walk her through your offer.

03

Walk in ready

Rehearse until it lands. Then go and have the real conversation.

Text her before the recruiter texts you

Free to start in iMessage. Upgrade when there's a number on the table.