Join the Athena affiliate program

Athena is an AI salary strategist for senior corporate professionals navigating high-stakes compensation negotiations.

She helps you:

• Pressure-test whether your offer, refresh grant, or total package reflects your true market value
• Benchmark base, bonus, equity, and sign-on against peers at your level and scope
• Build negotiation strategy for competing offers, retention conversations, and executive transitions
• Think through promotion campaigns, lateral moves, and board-level career bets
• Convert ambiguity into a clear position before you walk into the room

Athena is built for senior ICs, leaders, and executives who want direct, personalised strategy, not generic career advice.

Senior professionals constantly face high-stakes compensation negotiations and Athena gives them somewhere sharp to turn.

• Easy pitch: if someone is weighing an offer, refresh, or career move, Athena helps them act with conviction
• Built-in incentive: your link unlocks a first-purchase discount, lowering the bar to try
• Strong audience fit: ideal for creators, operators, coaches, and newsletters reaching senior ICs, leaders, and executives

Athena is built for senior professionals and leaders making high-stakes career and compensation decisions, typically at the Senior, Staff, Principal, Director, VP, and C-suite level. Please pitch it to that audience.

Disclose your affiliate relationship clearly whenever you share Athena.

Content that works

• Total comp breakdowns covering base, bonus, RSUs, refresh grants, and vesting schedules
• Counter-offer strategy for Staff, Principal, Director, and VP moves
• Equity refresh and retention grant conversations after a promotion or strong review cycle
• Multi-offer leverage walkthroughs (how to run two or three live processes without burning bridges)
• Severance and exit negotiation playbooks for executive transitions
• Promotion campaign planning for senior IC and management tracks (sponsorship, scope, packet)
• Performance review prep at Staff and above, including calibration dynamics
• Big tech levelling, band placement, and down-levelling pushback
• Real case studies with named outcomes ("How I added $120K to my Staff offer", "What I negotiated when I was laid off as a Director")
• Personal stories about the specific moment Athena would have changed the result

Please avoid

• Promising guaranteed raises, offers, promotions, or outcomes
• Positioning Athena as legal, financial, tax, or immigration advice
• Targeting students, new grads, or early-career audiences as the primary readership
• Framing Athena as a "salary hack" or "ChatGPT for negotiation"
• Spam, misleading ads, fake testimonials, or undisclosed affiliate links
• Bidding on Athena branded search terms unless explicitly approved
• Misrepresenting the discount, commission rate, or payout terms

1. Apply with your public profile, site, newsletter, community, or social channel
2. Grab your link from your Dub dashboard once approved
3. Share Athena in your own voice and earn commission when referrals convert