Any advices/tips to make it to a director in P&T? (Engineering)

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If you are part of a portfolio. Talk to portfolio lead to become THE architect. I imagine us moving to an area where one architect manages 2-3 products anyways. With maybe other mid level architects offshore

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You need to manage tech for (architect) a bunch of products (portfolio). Start maybe asking your RL if you can contribute to other products.

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Establish a history of reliably delivering, understand firm politics, actively seek out additional responsibilities.

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In addition to the items already mentioned,
1. Working with business leaders on product strategy and challenging things that don’t align with strategy
2. Get really good at system design, build solid design review process in the teams you lead
3. Hire good engineers only

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