Engineering
Engineering Director Role
Curated Learning Resources
- Career Development: What It Really Means to be a Manager, Director, or VPWhile Dave is not a fan of many leveling approaches, he is a fan of defining the use of Manager, Director, and VP in Job Titles: • Managers are paid to drive results with some support • Directors are paid to drive results with little or no supervision • VPs are paid to make the plan
- Advice for Engineering Managers Who Want to Climb the LadderCharity covers: • What is an engineering director? • How to level up: It is better to get promoted than hired up a level • A director is not a ‘super-senior manager’: A director’s job is running the business, and Managing Managers is a whole new skill set • If you’re working towards a director role: You ✨can not✨ be a blocker, and demonstrate impact beyond your team(s)
Related Skills
- Incident Response
- Refactoring
- Generative AI
- Tech Lead Role
- Product Development Flows
- Security Principles
- Security Leadership
- Tech Talks
- Engineering Career Ladders
- Code Reviews
- Data Modeling
- Intro to Eng Management
- Testing & Quality
- Software Design Docs
- Microservices
- Web Engineering
- Hiring Engineers
- CTO's Role
- Clean Code
- Software Architecture
- Estimation
- Senior Engineer
- Documentation
- Technical Debt
- Mentorship for Engineers
- Product-Focused Engineering
- Scoping
- Asking for Help
- Configuration at Scale
- Principal Engineer
- On-Call Rotation
- Structuring Engineering Teams
- Debugging
- Continuous Deployment
- Reliability Leadership
- Reliability Principles
- VP Engineering Role
- Tech Writing
- Monitoring & Observability
- Mobile Engineering
- Pair Programming
- Development Velocity
- Onboarding Engineers