I've been working for a small startup for the last 4 years and its experienced a ton of growth (I was the 9th hire, now we are 70). I started out as an IC and built a large feature of the product. The scope for this expanded a ton, and I ended up running the team in charge of that feature. The scope continued to expand, and now I'm running 2 teams in charge of the project. I have promoted and managed an eng manager for each of those teams and got promoted to director. My eng managers are generally doing a great job and I'm finding myself not having anything to do other than occasionally help put out fires and give feedback on how things are going. On the one hand loving not grinding nearly as much; on the other hand worried that I'm getting promo'd too quickly and not developing skills I need for future roles / putting myself out of this job long term if my C-Suite realizes I have almost nothing to do day to day. Thoughts? Do I just rest and vest or am I putting myself in a scary spot?
Build a new team under you that works on a new product/ project.
You are too focused on the daily operations. As a manager/executive, you need to be planning for the future. How will you grow further? What threats exist to the business? What problems will you encounter as you scale? Those are good places to start when considering what you should be working on.
Good advice here. Occupy yourself with forecasting, new markets, etc
You are in a scary spot with non-transferable skills.
You have plenty to do....you just don't know what your new role is. Your role is to keep your team's morale high, scale, and increase scope if you can handle it. Youre a director. You're supposed to find shit to do and help the company grow. No one's going to tell you what you need to do
Find a mentor
Time to think in new features dude, look for a direction, read. This is a nice scenario for you.
Sounds like you’re good at your job, tbh
Suggest two things. 1. Send this everybody at your company. They can help better than Blind. 2. Update your resume / CV. Question: do you have 6-9 months of expenses in cash?
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