A Simple Resume Checklist for Senior Roles

1) Make your level obvious

A senior resume should answer quickly:

• What level are you?\n
• What do you own?\n
• What kind of problems do you solve?\n

Your headline should include specialty and scope.\n Example: “Staff Frontend Engineer · Design systems · Platform performance”.

2) Add scope lines to roles

For each role, consider adding one “scope” detail:

• Team size\n
• Stakeholders\n
• Scale (users, requests, revenue)\n
• Constraints (compliance, latency, uptime)\n

Scope turns claims into believable signal.

3) Rewrite bullets as outcomes

Strong bullets start with impact:

• “Reduced LCP from 3.4s to 1.9s…”\n
• “Increased activation by 9 points…”\n
• “Cut incident rate by 42%…”\n

If you can’t measure it, describe a concrete outcome (quality, reliability, speed).

4) Show decision-making, not just delivery

Senior hires are judged on trade-offs.\n Include hints of decisions:

• What did you choose?\n
• What did you avoid?\n
• What constraints shaped the solution?\n

5) Reduce noise aggressively

At senior levels, noise is expensive.\n Remove:

• outdated tools you don’t want to work with\n
• weak projects that dilute the strong ones\n
• filler bullets without outcomes\n

6) Make export quality non-negotiable

Print-check your resume.\n If your PDF looks “almost right,” it’s not right.

Final pass:

• headings align\n
• dates align\n
• spacing is consistent\n
• A4 output is clean\n

That’s how you look senior before the interview starts.