I’ve been w/ my company almost 1 year now. I want a leadership role eventually and have spoken to my manager about it (he’s very encouraging.) I love my company and don’t see myself leaving but do you think it’s necessary in order to eventually get a role like CIO? I looked at my company’s leadership team and out of 12, only 3 are women and none are black women like me. Tech has less than 2% black women. I’m trying to think ahead and plan a strategy so any advice would be greatly appreciated 🫶🏾

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Look at how many rungs in the ladder you need to climb in order to get to CIO. Figure out how many years for each rung. Factor in the technical domain expertise you’ll need to learn for a CIO role. It usually requires 15-20 yoe. You can shave a few years by skipping levels and jumping companies like I did.

This is how I did it:
SWE - 1 year
Sr SWE / Team Lead - 2 years (I managed a team of 12)
SWE Manager (skipped)
Sr SWE Manager (skipped)
Director - 3 years (Fortune 20)
Sr Director (skipped)
VP - current (Fortune 15)

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I actually did not know know what bowl I was in when I asked the question ma’am. I saw the post in my feed and asked a question. I did not assume she was a woman. It’s a fair question to ask with no other prior context given for jumping so many levels. If you think a lot of people don’t get to where they are because of who they know, that’s naïve.

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